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naokamiya 's review for:
The October Country
by Ray Bradbury
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).