Now and Forever
fantasy, novella
by Ray Bradbury
copyright 2007
read in December 2021
rated 4/10: bad but could be read
American authors have an obsession with idyllic small-town life of half a century ago. (Or at least, way in the past.) Tom Sawyer even was written forty years after it was set.
Now and Forever is set in an idyllic small town. As is standard (except, perhaps, for Tom Sawyer) the town hides an awful secret.
This novella goes into excruciating detail of the idyllic town. Finally, after many pages of tedious boredom I gave up. I skipped ahead to find the hidden secret. Which was interesting but, surprisingly, not awful. Unless you decide that it is awful what the residents have done with their town: They have made it extremely boring.
There is, however, a message. The idyll is due to be destroyed by progress.
The message is valid, but badly dated. Dated because the idyll was shattered many years ago. Probably, even, well before Bradbury wrote this boring nonsense.
Oh, there are two more Bradbury novellas in this book. There is no way I will try to read them.
Dr Nick Lethbridge / Consulting Dexitroboper
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