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A review by giantarms
From the Dust Returned by Ray Bradbury
2.0
I understand why this book didn't actually become the Halloween classic Bradbury hoped it would have been. He took a few stories that had been published separately and sewed them all together with these sloppy little vignettes that serve no purpose but to signal that you're supposed to be reading a unified story now. There were one or two pieces in here that I liked very well, and when I looked them up, they were the previously published things.
I picked it up because it was supposed to be a kind of an Addams family precursor, but the appeal of the Addams family was that yes, they were weirdos, but they didn't make a big deal about it. Bradbury is so busy telling us how spooky everything is that the connection between the "family" members just doesn't ring true to me.
But I did like the bit about the old man and the nurse on the train.
I picked it up because it was supposed to be a kind of an Addams family precursor, but the appeal of the Addams family was that yes, they were weirdos, but they didn't make a big deal about it. Bradbury is so busy telling us how spooky everything is that the connection between the "family" members just doesn't ring true to me.
But I did like the bit about the old man and the nurse on the train.