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A review by kellian901
From the Dust Returned by Ray Bradbury
4.0
I got well into this without feeling very positively about it. (And worrying a great deal because I had bought a twin copy for a friend’s birthday gift.)
The words were beautifully put together… I just couldn’t connect. Perhaps it’s because I have never read Ray Bradbury before. I wasn’t prepared.
Then somewhere about halfway, in the chapter titled “On the Orient North”… I fell in love. And it all started coming together and making sense.
“When autumn trees shower bullions are we that Midas stuff, a leaf-fall that sounds the air in crisp syllables? What, what, oh what are we?“
And in Make Haste to Live…
“Death is mysterious. Life even more so. Choose. And whether you blow away in dust at life‘s end or arrive at youngness and go back to birth and within birth, that is stranger than strange, yes?“
It’s Shakespeare and Poe and Tim Burton.
The second half is such a feast of metaphor and imagery that I wanted to start over and scoop up all the goodness that I missed in the first half.
I would read this again next Halloween. Make it a tradition.
And I definitely will read his other books.
The words were beautifully put together… I just couldn’t connect. Perhaps it’s because I have never read Ray Bradbury before. I wasn’t prepared.
Then somewhere about halfway, in the chapter titled “On the Orient North”… I fell in love. And it all started coming together and making sense.
“When autumn trees shower bullions are we that Midas stuff, a leaf-fall that sounds the air in crisp syllables? What, what, oh what are we?“
And in Make Haste to Live…
“Death is mysterious. Life even more so. Choose. And whether you blow away in dust at life‘s end or arrive at youngness and go back to birth and within birth, that is stranger than strange, yes?“
It’s Shakespeare and Poe and Tim Burton.
The second half is such a feast of metaphor and imagery that I wanted to start over and scoop up all the goodness that I missed in the first half.
I would read this again next Halloween. Make it a tradition.
And I definitely will read his other books.