Dandelion Wine

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Summary: I'd rate it higher if I was able to!
Review: This book is an absolute gem, and I cannot believe that other readers could be so harsh with it. They complain that it is hard to follow or that it seems as if there are more stories going on than just a main story theme. Well, that fits the whole "flashback" of a man remembering his boyhood many years ago. I think that the very fact that the story jumps around in a non-linear fashion is befitting a tale of one's childhood. Are we remembering right? We embellish things as we recall our childhood memories because growing up, we process differently. Circumstances and happenings take on epidemic proportions. Sometimes they really are worthy of our childish angst. I think that's what makes this story so riveting. It brings back a rush of our own childhood memories both good, bad, scary, indifferent with it's vivid recollections. I love this book dearly, and it is one of the few books that I bother to pick up again and again. As a teacher, I find going back to the "good old days" of my own youth, or another's youth to be cathartic. Furthermore, it helps me stay grounded with the students I teach. Bradbury is adept at recalling a host of memories with his beautiful storytelling.

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Summary: Not as good as he has done...
Review: I believe Ray Bradburys book, Dandilion Wine, is a good book, but I also believe it is not equal to what he has or could have written. I read Fharenheite 451, and that was great. This is simply a good book, and a great book for most other writers, but just a average book for Ray Bradbury.

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Summary: Dandelion Wine-Not a Favorite
Review: In Dandelion Wine, by Ray Bradbury, many stories take place but all revolve around the same group of people and the same town. The main character, Douglas, goes through some tough times which Bradbury portrays well. However, there seem to be too many different storylines which makes this book a little too complicated. At times also I got extremely bored with it, hoping something new would happen soon.

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Summary: A good book
Review: Dandelion Wine is a fairly good book. It is a very interesting book. Called "Sci-Fi" it just seems like fiction. The reason that this book didn't get 5 stars is that each new chapter is the starting of a new short-story. The short-stories are all linked together, meaning it's not a collection of short-stories.

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Summary: Dandelion Wine Review
Review: Dandelion Wine is about the author's memories as a child. Ray Bradbury put together this book of summer memories. It is a book full of different stories. The numerous metaphors and twists and turns make it a little confusing and tedious to read. Slow at times, Dandelion Wine is not a bad pick.

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Summary: Dandelion Wine: The Vintage Summer of 1928
Review: The summer of 1928 was a memorable and devasting for tweleve year old Douglas Spaulding. Doug's best friend John Huff, moves away, and is not able to tell him how much his friendship means to him. The time comes for John to leave and Doug dosen't want to face reality. He let his eyes fall in a brief flicker. The watch said three o'clock. Doug moved his hand stealthily to the ticking, pulled out the watch stem. He set the hands back. Now they had all the time they would ever need to look long and close at the world, feel the sun move like a fiery wind over the sky. Dandelion Wine was written remarkably and every time I would put the book down I would find myself picking it back up and reading another chapter. The book makes you think of your own childhood; I would reccommend it to everyone of all ages.

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Summary: give me another glass
Review: this book is flawless, the writing style, the wonder, the fear, it does it all. I cannot remember a book that so captivated me for days, I didnt want it to end. If your young or old get this book, read it, keep it on your shelf, read it again. enjoy it.

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Summary: A wonderful book
Review: The book Dandelion Wine was not only an interesting and readable book, it also had lessons for life in it. At first the book might be hard to get into if you are not used to Ray Bardburies style of writing. However, once you get past that, it is an excellent book that I would recomend to mature groups. It does take a degree of comprehention and anilitical skills. I personally enjoyed this book emencily and went on to read many others of Bradburies books which I equally enjoyed.

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Summary: Bais Chana Reveiw
Review: Hi, I'm a student at Bais Chana, a Jewish all girl school, and we read "Dandeline Wine" it was a book abot a boy with an active imagination. Throughout the couse of the book, Dougles Saulding, the main character, finds out the meaning of life and death, and basically that life is full of surprises and dissapiontments. I enoyed this book of revelations, and discoveries, and hope you do to!

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Summary: Dandelion Wine
Review: Dandelion Wine is greatly exhibited through its pages. Each vignette has a moral to life. I enjoyed the characters immensly although Dandelion Wine is not one of my favorites. From within each story I saw similarities in my own life. Dandelion wine is an interesting yet choppy adventure.