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Summary: A Boring Book
Review: I felt that this book had its ups and downs, mostly downs. At times I'd have to admit that it was catchy and interesting but then it had its times when a chapter would just go on about absolutely nothing. For example, in chapter ten it is all about the mom worrying and trying to find her son, boring. I think that if they changed the book and took out the boring parts by adding interesting or adventurous themes, people would enjoy it a lot better. Maybe I see this book differently than others, but that's just my own opinion. I would rather recommend this book to adults because it skips around, making it hard to follow when at the same time being boring.
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Summary: A Bit Boring
Review: I found this book to be interesting at times, but then it would go on for a chapter about absolutely nothing. I think that with a few minor changes I'd like it a lot more. I liked the theme of life but sometimes the theme would make you think a little too much and start to get confusing. Some things that the auther would say, I'm sure made good sence to him, but when i read it, it would make me insane. This book is for someone who likes fiction, someone who likes books that make you think. But me I like non-fiction books better, to me they are more interesting. So if you are like me and dont like fiction i highley don't reccomend this book.
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Summary: ZzZzZzZzZz
Review: Reading should not be a chore or a task, it should be for your own personal enjoyment and exploration! This book for me is just the opposite, just another class book.
Just another book I am required to read. This book seems to ramble. You cant go one sentence without having a metaphor in it. It has some good themes with interesting points, but besides that it is not exciting. The language isn't realistic, but metaphoric. I love good fiction, but this book just isn't. It's a dictionary, in fact half the time reading i was so confused that I actually had to look words up in the dictionary. {I never ever do that.} This book doesn't seem too long, but while reading it feels like an eternity! In my mind, I see it as a book loaded with filler language, page after page after page. The character development is uninteresting. The book, when opened, looks menacing. Personally, I think Ray Bradbury FAILED on this novel. I read "The Martian Chronicles" which is my absolute favorite novel of all time. This novel lacks the integrity of "The Martian Chronicles". Ray Bradbury's language is very good at describing images, perhaps making him a good poet. But for books, I think he should stick with science fiction. But with all that aside I enjoy how he can take a desolate place and bring life to it. His imagination and his happiness is hard to find these days. He is a priceless gem of knowledge and power. His novel was boring though.
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Summary: Dandelion Wine
Review: Fiction. Dandelion Wine had its ups and downs. An up that got me excited was when Douglas was talking about a hidden creature in the forrest that was watching Douglas and Tom. This got me interested in the book. Then the book took a turn for the worse by describing about how Douglas, Tom and the rest of the family make their wine. The whole wine sceen was really boring for me. Then BAM! The story takes you in with informing you about the rituals preformed during their summer. I could really relate to this part of the book, because I had some of the same summer rituals. So if you like fiction books and you can relate to them easily, read this book!
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Summary: Okay, but confusing
Review: Dandelion Wine was a unique and somewhat interesting book but it doesn't grab you. The book lacks a certain something and is not the kind of book that most people can relate to. It is set during 1928 and the characters have fictional problems that are hard to identify with. Ray Bradbury has a certain style that is apparent throughout the book, which to me seems chaotic and very fast. He uses sounds randomly in some sentences and gathers a lot of actions into a confined little space. You may have to read over a passage more than once because there is too much happening at the same time.
There is a lot of symbolism in the book, which is a very nice thing in the book but it bores you after a few chapters. The book seems repetitive even though it doesn't repeat itself. The chapters are random and the only thing that continues throughout the book is the Happiness Machine, which you don't even end up caring about.
The book has some nice points and lessons in it, but if you want to be entertained I do not recommend this book for you. If you enjoy those books that explore the way people think about life and do not care about how long it takes for you to notice it, then I recommend it for you.
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Summary: Hopeless Reading in Summer School
Review: Well, this is a story that I have read in summer school this year. It is definitely not one of my favorite books. Although, the writing is very good and there is a lot of description, I still don't like the plot of the story. I cannot read a sentence with out five lines of description before the sentence is over. So it is very tedious for me to understand. Also, I am an aficionado of murder mysteries, so this is certainly not the book for me. It lies on the line between boring and annoying. As a 17 yr. old I don't find a point to reading and besides that when I am forced to read a book in school, I 99% of the time dislike the book. I feel that this may be a good book for someone who prefers descriptive, obtuse writing or if they like the summer. But 2 stars are better than 1.
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Summary: Not Ray's best.
Review: After reading The Illustrated Man and Fahrenheit 451, I decided to read Dandelion Wine. This book was, um, bad(should i go that far?) because there was not enough to make me want to read more. The book is, as we say, boring. No action, no drama, no nothing. There is an interesting topic about a Happiness Machine, but that was all that was able to catch my attention. Having a child read this book is like giving the death penalty to a man that jay-walks; it's not right. I am 15 yrs. old, and have the attention span of a monkey at a zoo. And this book requires patience, something most every teen does not have, along with grammatical skills. I was forced to read this in summer school. Maybe this book would be better if I didn't have to read it in class. In conclusion, if you're elderly, read this book, it'll bring back good memories. If you're young, go outside and shoot some hoops or something, because there is no way in heck you'll be able to enjoy this book in the summer.
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Summary: Literary genius, although a little boring
Review: found this book to be very insightful and full of revelations. The only problem with the book is that the author tends to wander. He almost seems to be trying to fill page at times. The descriptions that he provides are very profound, but he takes them too far, often going to deep. This method is not a very popular one with younger readers, such as myself. Bradbury would sometimes take as much as a page just to explain how a cow pie smells to the main character, (an eight year old boy in the 1920's) who is far too young to have the ability to think as insightfully as Bradbury depicts him. Overall, not a very good book, and not one that I would recommend.
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Summary: Confusing and "Untrue" to the sci-fi category
Review: Most people will think of science fiction as futursitic Star Wars books, but as many experienced readers will know, science fiction covers a broad range of styles. "Dandelion Wine" is one of these, it is not science fiction. I personally thought this book was a waste of my time due to the confusing nature of it and has discouraged me from reading any of Bradbury's other works. Overall this book is too boring and uninteresting to read.
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Summary: Dandelion Wine: A slight disappointment
Review: Dandelion Wine was too . . . real for my tastes. Most of Bradbury's works have a fairly unreal (not quite the word I'm looking for, but it'll do) taste, which is what attracts me. This is more of a real-life story.
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