So at thirteen he had only saved up six years of staring. Will Halloway, it was in him young to always look just beyond, over or to one side. And when you never look away all your life, by the time you are thirteen you have done twenty years taking in the laundry of the world. The trouble with Jim was he looked at the world and could not look away. An excerpt of how Bradbury describes the boys: I think I was anticipating more story/plot than character, but I ended up really liking Jim and Will more than I liked the plot. I’m not sure what I was expecting when I started this book. My favourite aspects of the book were the characterization of the boys and Bradbury’s writing style. I honestly didn’t find it very frightening or terrifying or anything. I rarely rarely read ‘horror’ (I can’t even think of a solid example of something ‘horrorish’ that I have read), but this is probably the closest I’ve come to horror in a fictional novel format.
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