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4.04 AVERAGE
dark
funny
mysterious
medium-paced
adventurous
dark
emotional
funny
hopeful
inspiring
mysterious
reflective
sad
tense
slow-paced
Plot or Character Driven:
Plot
Strong character development:
N/A
Loveable characters:
Complicated
Diverse cast of characters:
No
Flaws of characters a main focus:
N/A
adventurous
dark
mysterious
medium-paced
Plot or Character Driven:
Character
Strong character development:
Complicated
Loveable characters:
Complicated
Diverse cast of characters:
Yes
Flaws of characters a main focus:
Yes
adventurous
dark
emotional
hopeful
mysterious
reflective
fast-paced
Plot or Character Driven:
Plot
Strong character development:
N/A
Loveable characters:
Yes
Diverse cast of characters:
Yes
Flaws of characters a main focus:
N/A
IDK maybe i'll finish it next october. It was fine, but i wasn't excited about it and i will likely not i've so ling that taking the time to finish it would be justified. I am actively not reading other books because of this and i don't feel anything at the thought of never finishing it so i'll dnf it.
I was pleasantly surprised by this enchanting collection; while I've always known Bradbury to be a great writer and a champion of fantastic fiction, I've had less exposure to his work than I'd like to admit so I wasn't entirely certain what "The October Country" would have in store for me. This is a volume of quiet, textural, sometimes hilarious and often melancholic tales with a heavy focus on death and loss as its most central unifying thread, and its presence can be felt hanging like a shadow over each one of these stories. Bradbury's prose is simplistic and almost fit for younger readers (a style which he'd later perfect in the brilliant "Something Wicked This Way Comes") but it is never boring or dull in the slightest, and Bradbury is a master in the art of evocation; his clear adoration and enthusiasm for language and literary form just courses through this book's veins and bleeds off of every page, resulting in a collection with a poetic sensibility deeply rooted in the kind of Americana one can tell Bradbury so clearly epitomizes just through reading his words alone. With the days getting shorter and colder and the trees all now thoroughly colorful, there's no better time to give this a read (as the title suggests).
Bradbury never disappoints and never ceases to amaze me! The perfect Fall read!
As a big fan of stories that are in the same vein as Rod Serling's The Twilight Zone, I was eager to read Bradbury's classic anthology, The October Country. With its odd, bizarre, and sometimes chilling narratives, I was not disappointed.
The stories themselves are written in very poetic prose by Bradbury and run the gambit from psychological thriller to stories with supernatural and occult bends to them. I have a few favorites, one of which is "The Skeleton". It is about a man convinced that his skeleton is at odds with the rest of his body, so much so that he blames his skeleton for both his physical and mental deterioration. His obsession leads him to an eccentric and darkly mysterious man, a Dr. M. Munigant. The story is written so well that I was immediately drawn into the mind of this man.
However, I rated the book four stars because a few of the stories I did not find appealing. Although as beautifully written as they are, they dragged on for too long or the theme behind the story didn't strike my fancy. This is only natural though. In any anthology one will find some that aren't as great as the others.
Overall, it was a very enjoyable read.
The stories themselves are written in very poetic prose by Bradbury and run the gambit from psychological thriller to stories with supernatural and occult bends to them. I have a few favorites, one of which is "The Skeleton". It is about a man convinced that his skeleton is at odds with the rest of his body, so much so that he blames his skeleton for both his physical and mental deterioration. His obsession leads him to an eccentric and darkly mysterious man, a Dr. M. Munigant. The story is written so well that I was immediately drawn into the mind of this man.
However, I rated the book four stars because a few of the stories I did not find appealing. Although as beautifully written as they are, they dragged on for too long or the theme behind the story didn't strike my fancy. This is only natural though. In any anthology one will find some that aren't as great as the others.
Overall, it was a very enjoyable read.
I like creepy. I like strange. But I didn't like this book. This was a brand of creepy and strange that was just a little too bizarre and without enough potential to be true to make it an excellent bit of fantasy/ horror short story writing. I found myself not caring enough about each story to really get involved beyond the superficial. And a BABY assasin?!?!
