Ray Bradbury

I finally received Bradbury's 'Something Wicked This Way Comes' - both
the DVD and the book.  Watched the DVD to refresh my memory, but am
now reading the book.  I had never actually read one of Bradbury's
books.  He has an interesting writing style - it's almost like reading
poetry.  The way he uses adjectives and adverbs joined by hyphens is
curious.  The only other writer I have read who uses that technique is
Buckminster Fuller, but I don't suppose either of them invented the
style.

Some of his statements are insightful.  For instance he narrates about
the boy, Jim Nightshade:
     "The trouble with Jim was he looked at the world and could not
look away. And when you never look away all your life, by the time you
are thirteen you have done twenty years taking in the laundry of the
world."

He counters that with a statement about Will:
     "Will Halloway, it was in him young to always look just beyond,
over or to one side. So at thirteen he had saved up only six years of
staring."

Those statements contain a wealth of wisdom about character-building.

One could hardly create a dramatic production with the kind of
interesting style contained in Bradbury's book.  However, they might
alternatively produce something else equally as unique, artistic and
probing in a different way.  (just my assessment)
--
Howard