Rating: 3 out of 5 After a decade since I last read this book and twice the age, my experience with this story has changed. Originally when I read it as a boy, the story felt more magical and eerie. I was more focused on the carnival and its mysteries than the characters and their personal growth. I hadn’t given thought about how Bradbury’s perspective of the world, which hasn’t aged well over the decades, is insensitive to people dissimilar to him.