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Summary: dandelion wine
Review: this book was great i thought.it warms you heart and makes you relize and appreciate the simple pleasures in life.the story is very believable and realistic...you would almost think that this actually took place.
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Summary: MAGIC, MYSTERY AND MEMORIES........
Review: DANDELION WINE IS THE DIARY OF EVERY YOUNG PERSON'S "SUMMER OF AWAKENING". RAY BRADBURY NOT ONLY INVITES US INTO HIS PAST BUT THANKFULLY REMINDS US OF OURS. IT IS A WONDERFULLY WARM JOURNAL OF MAGICAL MOMENTS THAT WEAVE TOGETHER A WORLD OF INNOCENCE AND ILLUSION. WHEN DISCOVERY AND IMAGINATION COULD BE BOTH EXHILARATING AND FRIGHTENING AT THE SAME TIME. IT IS A BOOK YOU WILL READ MORE THAN ONCE AND RETURN TO WHEN YOU WANT TO VISIT A TIME WHEN THE WORLD SEEMED BIGGER TO US ALL.
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Summary: Book's with no point
Review: This book seems to be very boring. I haven't read it but all of my friends tell me that they don't understand it at all. I can't see why all of these people thought that it was a good book. But yes, we all have different viewpoints. I don't even see why all these author's like to wrie such boring books!
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Summary: Boring
Review: This book was extremely boring. I couldn't follow it at all. Every time I went to read it, I started to fall asleep. I couldn't even finish reading it. I don't see how this book was rated very good.
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Summary: Remember what it's truly like to be a child?
Review: Ray Bradbury is an artist with words. Each sentence is filled with descriptive poetry. Open this book and you will become a 12 year old boy who has just discovered he is alive. Spend the summer with Douglas and watch him find out that no matter how much you wish, life does not stand still. Douglas learns from the best source available: people. He finds a time machine in an old man and life in a new pair of sneakers. If you're looking for a book filled with superficial, simple delights, this is not for you. If you're looking for a taste of childhood summer that has the occasional bitter tinge that comes with life, drink up!
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Summary: Brilliant
Review: So full of lyrical prose, and delicious adjectives that you want to wrap yourself up in it, and never put it down. Not because the story is so good, it is actially a very simple, static tale, but the laguage is so rich, it almost seems like poetry. If you are an author, or are wanting to be an author, or have ever even considered the idea for more than a minute, pick up this book, and find out what it means to wield a pen with such skill and dexterity that you make it seem effortless.
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Summary: GrEaT BoOK!
Review: My teacher read us this book in class and it is sTUPENDOUS! I love the tarot card witch, old mrs. bentley, the green machine and summer in a day! Our teacher is teaching us Bradbury's writing tecneiques. I <3 THIS BOOK!
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Summary: Nostalgia.. not character driven
Review: This novel is about reliving childhood. No, it does not follow a very structured plot... it is a nostalgia driven narrative. Douglas Spaulding is the main character but not the only character. Bradbury uses his eyes to remind us of the excitement of summer as a child and he also uses the perspective of the old, who look at the children enviously and some try to recapture thier childhood. The novel has a theme of discovery and the simple magic of summer. Ice cream on a hot day, hide-and-seek in the dusk, the fourth of july, walking barefoot in the grass. It a a flashback into life before we had to get up and go to work every morning. Each story is a parable of youth for adults. A lesson we should remember to stay young at heart. The "Lonely One" isn't so much a sub plot but it is the symbol of the first stamp of fear and "uninvinsibleness" that children come across, that first sense that something bad could happen to you. For those who "don't get" Bradbury's use of metaphores I only have to say... step out on the porch in the early morning sunlight of an early summer morning, take a deep breath of the clean air and try reading this book again. Let Bradbury take you back to your childhood in the summer when you were 12 and on the brink of realizing what the world REALLY is........
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Summary: Andrew's Review
Review: I had to read Dandelion Wine by Ray Bardbury for my college class and write a review, so here it is. I know some people thought this was a good book but at times it was slow. I often felt bored reading this book and only skimmed over the pages I had to read for class. I do give the author credit for making me think back to my childhood. After reading this book, I remembered the good times when I was little, and how I miss living life carefree. I did, however, like some parts of the book. I loved it when Ray used suspense in his book. Ray Bradbury brilliantly wrote about the lonely one and he kept me at the edge of my chair hoping that Lavinia gets back to her home safely. All in all the book wasn't that bad.
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Summary: Too Wordy, but good book
Review: This book is really good to remember childhood and read it when you feel like analyzing things once again from a 12-year-old perspective. Bradbury does a great job in capturing the images and memories of the summer. Yet, it won't be as enjoyable for readers of all ages because it concentrates on his perspective of life and other things that are important at that age. This book can be really helpful for kids who are going through the same things Douglas is going through because it might help them understand what is going on. Conversely, its wordiness makes the reading tedious at times; it would have being more enjoyable if it had a sequence. If I had the choice of reading it when I was 12, I know I would have enjoyed it a lot more than what I did now.
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