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Yes, the third person voice and other items you note made it work on a sort of technical level, but still did not make it satisfying (for me) as a novel. I really liked the opening with Doug watching his town wake up, and if the novel had been constructed around that sort of all-seeing-eye thing then that might have worked, but Bradbury dropped that again until the end. Then I thought the notes on the tablet might string things together, but that seemed to get lost too. For some parts even the fact of summer was no more than incidental. ... Ultimately the only thing that linked the parts was the fact that it all took place in Green Town, and (for me) that was not enough.
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