Talk:Something Wicked This Way Comes (novel)

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  • Improve the article into at least a Good article:
    • Find more professional sources on the novel (since they seem to be hard to come by)
    • Expand the analysis/themes and criticism sections with proper source back-up

Is this in the Horror genre. Its a wierd book!

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[edit] Hard to teach it

I am having the hardest time trying to get my students to get into the book. But I am plowing through the complaints and the hardship. I believe that this book has a good story line but the students haven't given it a chance. [User:Koavf] 6 January 2006

Okay, what age are your students? [User:67.52.216.4] 31 March 2006

Perhaps if you ran the Disney movie for them, they might be more interested. It's a shame that a good book can't stand on its own, but you do what you have to do. — Walloon 18:43, 31 March 2006 (UTC) (P.S. Don't forget to sign your posts with a dash and four tildas "~". That automatically puts your user name and the date/time on your posts.)

[edit] Cover art

Let's have a vote about which cover to display in this article: the cover by Joe Mugnaini, or the more recent paperback. I'll start off with a vote for that wonderful painting by Mugnaini. The way he works so many different perspectives — the distant train and bridge seen in profile, the startling thrust of the tower, the observant medium distance view of the neighborhood with that shadow approaching on the lower right. How he integrates the title and author into the artwork. And I seriously want a weather vane like like that on my house! — Walloon 19:54, 27 August 2006 (UTC)

[edit] Will and Jim's age

I'm correcting Will and Jim's age from twelve to "on the verge of fourteen." From the Prologue:

One year Halloween came on October 24, three hours after midnight.
At that time, James Nightshade of 97 Oak Street was thirteen years eleven months, twenty-three days old. Next door, William Halloway was thirteen years, eleven months, and twenty-four days old. Both touched toward fourteen; it almost trembled in their hands.

— Walloon 08:10, 3 October 2006 (UTC)

[edit] Marking on Jim's Roof and Will's Lure of the Witch

I'm correcting the part of the plot summary which says that the Witch in the ballon left marks on both the boys' roofs. This is incorrect. She only marked the roof of Jim's house.

Also, I have corrected the part of the plot summary which says that Will lured the Witch to an abandoned warehouse. I was actually just an abandoned house.

-Adam157.142.202.115 16:51, 12 February 2007 (UTC)

[edit] Copyright?

Should a link to the English version on a Russian website really be here? — 75.66.172.38 02:08, 28 June 2007) (UTC)

The novel is out of copyright and in the public domain in Russia because Russia's predecessor the Soviet Union was not a signatory to a multilateral, international copyright treaty until 1973; see Copyright law of the Soviet Union. However, the Wikipedia servers are in the U.S. — Walloon 18:41, 5 August 2007 (UTC)
Whether it is PD in Russia is disputed, see Copyright law of the Russian Federation#Amendments of the 1993 Copyright law. But that's entirely besides the point. Bradbury's novel is also PD in Afghanistan. So what? It may or may not be PD in Russia. So what? The work is copyrighted in the UK and in the U.S., and most other countries of the Berne Convention. Lupo 11:32, 23 August 2007 (UTC)
Lupo, that was my point. — Walloon 18:29, 23 August 2007 (UTC)

[edit] Fair use rationale for Image:Somethingwickedfirstedition2.jpg

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BetacommandBot (talk) 13:07, 21 January 2008 (UTC)

[edit] Charmed?

OK, I never read this book or anything. I came across it because Patrick Rothfuss mentioned it in an interview, and I remember the pilot episode of the TV show Charmed was named similarly. Then I saw that Halloway's one of the main characters' name. So just wondering if there's any connection. —Preceding unsigned comment added by 71.242.244.122 (talk) 21:38, 9 April 2008 (UTC)