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Originally Posted by Catlady
[...] Maybe, but I would have preferred less sentiment in the first place, and more of an even-handed approach to the good and the bad. It felt like there was a disconnect between the wallow in nostalgia and the quite depressing events described. I think the book would have been better with a first-person adult narrator looking back on the summer and offering perspective and context from a distance of years.
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Yes, very much this. An overt reminiscing adult narrator would also have offered more excuse for the slightly morbid turn that the book takes. (Although it would have made the Happiness Machine seem even further out of place ... maybe it could have convinced Bradbury to drop it.)