SOMETHING WEIRD THIS WAY CAME

This weekend, I finally finished the book Something Wicked This Way Came by Ray Bradbury, whew.  Mr. Bradbury was probably best known for the book Fahrenheit 451.  I think I read that book, or maybe listened to some audio version of it.  I expected another sci-fi book out of Wicked, instead it's a very weird book.  Something about a mysterious traveling circus, just mystical, no sci-fi, no dystopia.  Most of the time it felt like reading a thesaurus.  Some character just wouldn't do something, instead they do it in multiple ways, a whole bunch of synonyms. I felt if all the synonyms are removed the book would be just half the length.  It reminds me of another book, a classic, 20,000 Leagues Under The Sea.  I need to find an actual book to finish.  I read it in parts, via some Classics app for the iPhone.  Didn't finish it, then resumed via some online web site.  I was at a job that involved deploying computers for some bank branch, but the computers didn't get delivered.  For a week or two I just showed up with nothing to do.  Still I couldn't finish the book.  The latest attempt I involved the Libby app for the iPhone.  Twice I had to renew it but still not finished it.  The similarity between 20,000 Leagues and Wicked?  Instead of synonyms for verbs or adjectives, 20,000 Leagues mentioned many types of fish and sea creatures.  Again, if mentions of the many types of fish and sea creatures are omitted, the book wouldn't be so long.

Anyway, having finished Wicked now I need to focus on the next "book".  It's a book-on-CDs borrowed from Brooklyn Public Library, Jodi Picoult's By Any Other Name.  I already renewed it a few times, hopefully I will be able to renewed it again.  I no longer have a CD player in the car but I have a portable DVD player that works fine with audio CDs.  It's just a bit annoying having to charge it daily to make sure it has enough juice to play a disc during my commute.  I am up to disc #4 now, still 11 discs to go, yike!