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Quality
This is the case with 'the october country'.
Matisse--3 stars--a short, comedic satire about one conventional man's obsession with the young intelligentsia.
Price
The number and variety of downloadable reading materials is awesome, and the cost is minimal.
But the cost to occupying the farm is high indeed.
Packaging/appearance
The wife is a bit horrified at this, even more so when she works the nerve up to go with her husband into the catacomb.
Competitiveness
He's just a regular 14-year old boy and a bit embarrassed by his lack of accomplishment.
Overview
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- Our engine has discovered that over 80% high quality reviews are present.
- This product had a total of 681 reviews as of our last analysis date on Jun 7 2021.
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Posted by a reviewer on Amazon
Couldnt reccomend it highly enough
Posted by a reviewer on Amazon
Theres skeleton in which a man becomes horrifying aware of the bones within his body and becomes convinced that theyre trying to take over his life theres the surprisingly nasty ending of the man upstairs in which a young boy becomes convinced that the lodger living upstairs in a vampire and theres the small assassin about a possibly murderous infant and a story that has one of the nastiest last lines in memory
Posted by a reviewer on Amazon
In other words theres plenty of darkness here and while bradbury isnt going to be mistaken for the fullfledged horror of a king or a barker theres some wonderfully dark gothic material here
Posted by a reviewer on Amazon
A favorite of neil gaimans and the influence on gaimans world is evident homecoming tells the story of a family of monsters vampires ghosts and more coming together for a family reunion all told from the perspective of the one normal child in the family
Posted by a reviewer on Amazon
Or take the emissary about a young boy confined to his room because of sickness who experiences the world entirely through his roaming dog and the visitors he brings home a story that opens with wonder and heart slowly turns to heartbreak and then becomes terrifying
Posted by a reviewer on Amazon
And thats not all once you add to the collection some stories that show off bradburys rich sense of humor the elderly woman who refuses to die in there was an old woman or the ridiculous satire of trend followers that is the watchful poker chip of h
Posted by a reviewer on Amazon
The dwarfthe next in linethe watchful poker chip of h
Posted by a reviewer on Amazon
All of the stories were new to me and completely delightfulin each bradbury chooses an imaginative theme and iterates on it with beautiful visceral language
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