Bradbury´s "Something Wicked this way comes": book tip.
Freaks of nature. I don´t understand that American tradition. I hear it was also popular in the UK in the XIX century. I don´t remember ever seeing anything like that in my country. We don´t have Halloween either, so... I have just read Ray Bradbury´s "Something Wicked this Way Comes", and it is a sweet tale about that age when you are barely a teenager, still smelling of childhood, and still far from adulthood, and then some unexpected event happens that makes you grow beyond your years, or makes you realize that life is so much more than your small town and simple pleasures however it is not as exciting as you thought it should be, cause it means loss, accountability, pain and sorrow. Yes, it does use a Carnival with a sideshow of freaks as the driving force behind those events, and the idea of something unusual, freakish begins with the main characters, Will and Jim, born seconds apart, one still on October 30th and the other on October 31st, one with fi...