Halloween 2018 group read #thehallowormtree on Instagram and Twitter!

I'd never read anything by Rad Bradbury before—I just never felt any pressing, urgent need to—but when some of my friends decided to host a readalong on Halloween, and I saw that the book was only a few dollars online, I figured now was a great opportunity to try Bradbury's work out! Sadly, I was super unimpressed and ended up skimming the second half of it because I was so bored. The writing feels very dated, which obviously isn't a bad thing for its time, but it wasn't tremendously enjoyable to read in modern times. More than that, though, the writing style itself felt like it was trying too hard to be "weird" and the whole thing was super disinteresting.