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Pros
The halloween tree by ray bradbury is a classic tale of adolescent boyhood. Bradbury's writing is always a joy to read, and the illustrations are reminiscent of edward gorey.
The boys spend their whole journey following him through time and to different locations and struggling to save him. The scene with the giant grim reaper cutting down bugs indiscriminately while the boys have also turned into bugs is so frightening an... Read More
Cons
The halloween tree is a frenetic, creative, stylistically wearying book which frequently butchers aspects of halloween which it intends to explore. This is a book that it's difficult to believe ray bradbury wrote. It's simplistic, foolish and not even... Read More
Even the main characters are one-dimensional cardboard cutouts. It's full of overwrought descriptions of scenes while being underwhelming in character development and plot. Perhaps if the characters were treated as individuals instead of the collectiv... Read More
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Quality
The product arrived quickly and in great condition.
I mostly bought this book for the cover art and was not at all concerned with the story, but once i actually read it, i fell in... Read More
The scene with the giant grim reaper cutting down bugs indiscriminately while the boys have also turned into bugs is so frighte... Read More
Shipping
Book according to the description and fast shipping.
Awesome read and fast service from seller
Competitiveness
I'm a huuuuge ray bradbury fan so of course i love this book!
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- This product had a total of 2,717 reviews as of our last analysis date on Jun 22 2023.
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Posted by a reviewer on Amazon
It’s just creepy enough but not a horror story or gory or anything like that
Posted by a reviewer on Amazon
I had never read the halloween tree and now have a deeper understanding of the ancient and current elements of halloween celebrations the american holiday rather superficial by comparison
Posted by a reviewer on Amazon
I’m not sure i loved it but it did evoke the halloween spirit in me
Posted by a reviewer on Amazon
I am glad i read it however but it won’t be one i read again
Posted by a reviewer on Amazon
Perhaps in the corner of the october country you will find the halloween tree
Posted by a reviewer on Amazon
Ray bradbury had discussed changes he might have considered over time in some of his other writings and it would have been interesting to see if he would have made any changes to the hallowed tree
Posted by a reviewer on Amazon
So i had the paperback sent to his house
Posted by a reviewer on Amazon
This isn’t the scifi bradbury is most known for but rather the type of creepy book i would expect for teens from neil gaimin
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