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Summary: Excellent Book
Review: This book about the young Douglas, describes the ideal summer of 1928. From a ghostly lonely one, to the idea of discoering one is alive, is incredible. I am a ninth grader from W-, Ma., and this is one of the best books I have ever read. Ray Bradbury is an excellent author, who can write about a 12-year-old very well. This book takes place in the summer of 1928. Douglas Spalding is a very interesting character, along with many of the other characters from the book. Each one has its own personality, luring a reader into this great book. I recommend this book to anyone who wants an easy-reading, fun book.
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Summary: A good book, evokes many emotions along the way.
Review: I enjoyed this delightful story. Although i found myself too emotionally envolved on occasion.
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Summary: One word will do: "Consummate"
Review: One of the finest potrayals of human nature and search for human knowledge that I've encountered in literature. Highly analagous, yet in some ways contrasting to Winesburg Ohio by Andersen. I stronlgy recommend reading Winesburg Ohio before or after this book.
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Summary: This book captured me in a sense, like no other !!!!!!
Review: I am a Middle School student and when i was in 6th grade our teacher , Mr.Schmidt , had us read this book . At first , he recieved the moans and groans , and half of the class was like "C'mon , Dandelion Wine ???" . Yet , he pushed us through it , and I am glad he did . That book was outstanding and I recommend it to everyone of all ages . I still remember the one line in that book that really grabbed me . It was "the day was as perfect as a flame of a candle" . Only Bradbury can write something like that .
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Summary: Alive to Death
Review: I just read this book for school and at first it seems very confusing but once you analize it you can come to a complete understanding of it. After Doug finds out that he is alive he finds out that one day he must die just like some of the other characters in this book. Overall memories is probably the most important thing that he is going to treasure over his whole summer.
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Summary: Magical summer found in the mundane day-to-day...
Review: I read this as an assignment in eighth grade in 1966--I didn't want to read it at all. But I've voluntarily re-read it many many, summers. I even made my mother read it--her comment: this is about MY era, what do you see in it? Joy, terror, sadness, delight, love and loss. The stuff of every life captured with a dash of magic.
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Summary: Can't go along like that...
Review: This book seems like a lot of tiresome whining, a halfwit paean to times simpler and less convenient. What is Bradbury saying -- that life was better when he was young and ignorant? If Bradbury couldn't write so well, nobody would have heard of him -- his thoughts, his ideas, they're poorly reasoned. Nostalgia, to me, is a primitive urge best avoided, as one should avoid this book.
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Summary: Perhaps the very best...
Review: Dandelion Wine is perhaps the best book I've ever read; and read and read and read! I first read it as a young teenager, 30 years ago; I've never stopped reading it!Early in the book, 12-year-old Douglas Spaulding comes to the shocking realization that he is alive; truly alive! Throughout the rest of the book, Douglas examines the people in his family and his town, trying to learn if and how they deal with this huge thing called Life. Mark Twain's "Tom Sawyer" and "Huck Finn" stories have accurately preserved aspects of the American 19th century. In centuries to come, Ray Bradbury's "Dandelion Wine" will be recognised as a wonderful glimpse into the culture of the mid-20th century, as representative of the "good things in life" as a gallery full of Norman Rockwell paintings. Read this book, then marvel at the world through your newly-found senses!
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Summary: Filled with wonders and terrors, joy, pain, and wisdom
Review: Of all the grandmasters wonderful masterpieces, none are more full of the joyful vibrance that is life. this book is very great.
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Summary: Long-Time Favorite.
Review: My first introduction to this book was my 10th grade English teacher reading it to me. As corny as that seems I loved it. Even at that age I related to it. 15 years later I still love it. It is one of the few books I make a point to re-read every year.
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