reading (Let's All Kill Constance)

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"Let's All Kill Constance" is Bradbury's sort of sequel to "Death is a Lonely Business." I didn't find the same foggy creeping charm in the successor that I did in the predecessor. If it was a film, it would have been directed by Oliver Stone or Mel Gibson. Perhaps this is the effect Bradbury intended, but it doesn't make it enjoyable. Bradbury can draw word pictures like Da Vinci art and make characters as subtly complicated as a Mozart symphony. But the pictures here feel like potato gun on a brick wall at ten feet and the characters are drawn with sledgehammer strokes.

This is the first Bradbury book I've read in any genre that I would tell friends to pass by.

42. Ray Bradbury "Let's All Kill Constance"