Dandelion Wine

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Summary: Dandelion Wine: Good for starts, bad for Bradbury!
Review: In this book the main character, Doug, is trying to explain to the extent of his knowledge the incredible summer of 1928. The book has various sub-plots and different people with even more personalities. It tell about how Doug's grandfather makes wine out of the dandelion's that they pick at the beginning of each summer. Bradbury enhances the plot further by adding a mysterious killer known as "The Lonely One". Although the killer may seem to make the plot more adventurous but actually it just drags it down. The book was not one of Bradbury's best, I am sorry to say, but it was a substatial book that keeps the reader interested for the most part.

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Summary: Dandelion Wine: Good for starts, bad for Bradbury!
Review: In this book the main character, Doug, is trying to explain to the extent of his knowledge the incredible summer of 1938. The book has various sub-plots and different people with even more personalities. It tell about how Doug's grandfather makes wine out of the dandelion's that they pick at the beginning of each summer. Bradbury enhances the plot further by adding a mysterious killer known as "The Lonely One". Although the killer may seem to make the plot more adventurous but actually it just drags it down. The book was not one of Bradbury's best, I am sorry to say, but it was a substatial book that keeps the reader interested for the most part.

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Summary: A mediochre book on the part of Ray Bradbury.
Review: Over the summer I was assigned to read Dandelione Wine, by Ray Bradbury. When I was reading this book I don't think I was in the right frame of mind to fully understand the book. I am not familiar with the complexities of science fiction writing. I thought the green machine was a real hovering craft, little did I know, it was apart of Doug's imagination. I could not identify with Doug because we live in two different time periods. Our lifestyles are the complete opposite. His life was so simple and ours is so diverse and complex. He lived on a farm and that is impossible for me to imagine. I really did not enjoy this book, but I intend to re-read this book in the future and try to see what I missed.

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Summary: Dandilions review
Review: Dandelion Wine is a book that would be liked by people who have a more advanced reading level. I was assigned this book to read over the summer and it was not one of my favorite books to read. It is the story of a boy named Douglas and his adventures over the summer of 1928. Bradbury uses some imagination in this book but the imagination is used to illustrate good points. For example the time machine was not a time machine at all. The time machine is an old man. An old man that tells stories about past and previous wars. This shows that people with age can be good sorces when you want to learn about the past. And the happiness machine was to show you that happiness is not found in a machine but it is found in your surroundings and in your family. It talks about Douglas's traditions during the summer also. It mentions him buying a new pair of shoes by striking a deal with the shoe salesmen and how he goes and collects berries with his brother and his father in the woods one morning. This book was hard to follow and I would recommend it to only people who have a higher level of reading.

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Summary: I wasn't as impressed with this book as my peers
Review: I chose Dandelion Wine off of a list for my summer reading this past summer. Some of my friends had told me that it was an interesting book and that I should read it. I picked it up and right off the bat, I was extremely bored. I just didn't understand what the plot off the story was leading up to. Ray Bradbury wrote about a 12 year old boy named Douglas Spaulding and his adventures througout the entire summer of 1928. At some points in the book, I just plain felt lost and I had to re-read the section of the book again to half understanding it. I remember reading about Douglas convincing a shoesalesman to give him credit for his shoes by explaining the feeling of the first time that you put on a new pair of tennis shoes. I couldn't really relate to that at all, because he used so many metaphores that I lost track of what he was talking about. I did enjoy the subplot about a murderer that the locals called the "Lonely One". Woman after woman just kept ending up murdered, and the climax of this subplot is a neat twist on the whole situation. That was about the only part of the book that I actually enjoyed. Bradbury is a great sentence structure writer, but I found this book to be completely dull. I wouldn't recommend wasting your time on it.

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Summary: Ray Bradbury's appeal to the senses.
Review: I'm sure that all of our parents or grandparents have told us how their life was when they were youg. Most likely they have told us about how they had to walk to school, or what they did over summer vacation, or who their friends were. Aside from the grandparent commentary, Dandelion Wine is somewhat like this also. Ray Bradbury,(the author), gives the first person account of an ordianary summer through the eyes of a twelve-year-old boy. Bradbury paints a picture of the two protagonists named Douglas and Tom Spaulding who are the type of people at their age who are never afraid of anything. In the little town of Green Town, Illinois their is a murderer called the "Lonely One." Doug, Tom, and as well as Johnny Huff, (one of Doug's friends), go to a place called the "ice house" and that is supposedly the "Lonely Ones'" hideout. This is one of the many examples of the boys fearlessness. Besides the murderer subplot, there are many more that include a "Green Machine" which is actually a green car for three little old ladies. There is also a "Happiness Machine" in which the town "fix it" named Leo Auffman invents to make the town a better place. He discovers, however, that true happiness comes from family. Bradbury, however, tries to focus the main plot on Douglas and his first summer in where he experiences his own "aliveness." I enjoyed this book beacuse of the irony of suspense and joy that Bradbury interchanges. This is a great book for all ages because of how Bradbury appeals to the senses of every type of reader.

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Summary: excellent
Review: Dandelion Wine is a really great book to read. It gives you insights into the past, and at the same time helps you appreciate the world around you. One of my favorite parts in the book was when Doug (the main character) desperatly wanted a new pair of shoes and plotted to get them. He convinced the store owner to give him a pair of shoes by talking so fast that he confused the store owner. There are many incidents like this in the book, and many twists as well. One twist in the book I really liked was the lonely one. The lonely one is a man who lives by a ravine, and murders young women who are careless enough to go by the ravine at midnight. All in all, Dandelion Wine is an excellent book and I definately will read it again.

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Summary: The Critic on Dandelion Wine
Review: I was starting my summer school course and my teacher assigned the class to read"Dandelion Wine." As I looked over the book and saw how every chapter had its own plot and didn't have anything to do with the chapter before it I though it would be a boring book. I was right the book must have been the most boring book I have ever read. First I didn't care of a boy who lived sixty years ago, for it had nothing to do with me. Second, the changing of plots in every chapter really confused me and I couldn't keep up with it. Last, when I took the test I did bak because the book bad on meaning to me. For any normal person I do not recommend reading this book.

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Summary: Vintage book for reading season
Review: Dandellion Wine was a wonderful book to read. Keeping the reader entertained in every chapter, Ray Bradbury emits the wonders of a irregular summer of a boy named Douglas in the vintage season of 1928. With the many subplots including the "green machine," and a murderer called the "lonely one," Bradbury gives the reader both excitment and drama throughout the story. I was assigned this book for summer reading, and I accepted it reluctanly, not knowing what a great opportunity I was given. This book can relate to the young reader in many ways, and it is a great book for almost all ages.

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Summary: Complete thoughts on the epic book by Ray Bradbury
Review: I am a freshman in highschool, and I recently was assigned Dandellion Wine for my summer reading. As all kids do, I complained, thinking that this book would be very boring like all the books I have read in the past. I was wrong. Once I picked it up, I could not put it down. The ongoing story of Doug and Toms adventures in their life was a great plot for the book. Ray Bradbury kept the reader on the edge of their seat with the many subplots including the killer that calls himself the "lonley one." Dandellion Wine was a great book to read for fun, excitement, and adventure.