Dandelion Wine

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Summary: Forced to read, ended up liking it
Review: The book reads quickly and it is written very well. It must be difficult for a grown man to write from the perspective of a 12-year-old boy. Overall i thought that it was a good story and I would recommend this book to others. Also this book shows how you can grow up very fast in a short period of time. The main character in this story grew up rapidly in only one summer. Also it triggers memories from your own child hood which got me thinkin about my childhood and how much fun I had, and how much I miss it. Even though I'm only 19 years old after reading this book and thinking about my past I feel much older than I am.

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Summary: Jim for English Class
Review: As I read Dandelion Wine I couldnt help but remember my childhood. It brough back very vivid memories of my upbringing in my neighborhood. It brought back memories of summers past. I think that if I read it later in life it would have been more valuable to me especially wih the stress of a job and my childhood just a distant memory. It would help me go back to the neighborhood where I grew up. With the help of Bradbury I was able to take examples of his childhood and apply them to my own fond memories of growing up.

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Summary: College Student
Review: This book was a mixture of high and low points. I found myself giggling as I read on and explored the world of this little 12-year-old boy but at the same time often bored with his never ending accounts of self exploration that to me seem so unrealistic for a boy the age of 12. Hearing his rambling thoughts on the world and it's workings and how tennis shoes somehow made it into the greater scheme of things brought a smile to my face, and just imagining two old ladies crouched up in their attic hiding from the police and their "motor scooter" hits me as one of the highest points of the book. However, for every undeniably humoristic moment, there was a nagging, boring moment to meet it waiting on some other page to make you wonder, is it really worth reading the rest of the book?

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Summary: Good Book
Review: In this book Bradbury gives us the chance to go back to our childhood. He lets us relive the events that made us who we are and he also shows how maybe we grow up faster than we know. Even though you can get lost in this book it shows in the end that it was all about a child growing up rapidly in just one summer. Even though I am only 18 it gave me a sense of being older because it made me look back at "the good old days" when I though I was still living those days. Over all this book is good to read if you want to look back and relive your experiences.

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Summary: Thinking
Review: I think that reading the novel Dandelion Wine by Ray Bradbury it made me think more about my childhood and how you believe that you are invisible from and harm or evil. Douglas did not have a care in the world, it was summer time, and he was going to enjoy it as best as he could. It brought me back to thinking about times when I was a child and had no care in the world. I thought I was invisible and nothing could ever harm me. What wonderful times they were. Now if you put me being 12 right now I think my mindset would be a little different. What wonderful times they were. The one bad part to the book is that it really had no structure to the chapter and it did not seem to blend very well together. That made it kind of hard for me to follow what was going on in the book. It was interesting though to go back in the mind of a 12 year old and see how we all used to think about the world.

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Summary: Dandelion Wine??? I like beer!
Review: I am a college student at St. John Fisher college in Rochester New York. Recently my english teacher assigned the book Dandelion wine by Ray Bradury to us. Im not the type of kid that enjoys to read books. i made it through my whole high school career without opening one. So when he assigned this book i thought i could just bs my way through it. Then one night i was really bored so i decided to start reading this book. Amazingly my younger years started returning to me. The way that ray describes the things he went through and did in such an exact way is amazing. I could remember the things i did as a kid. I could remember all the places i was, what i was doing and even the smells of whta was going on. The book is about Ray's younger years. He goes by the pen name of Douglas Spaulding. He is a young kid and he reflects upon is childhood during the whole book. I would reccomend this book to any older person who wants to look back on all his younger years. its a great book.

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Summary: Not my kind of book
Review: Although this book did bring back many of my childhood memories I didn't feel that it was a very interesting novel. I read this book for college and felt that some parts were interesting, like the part about John Huff. Im not a very consistent reader, but I do like to read, just not books like this one. To me it seemed like there was no real point to the book, it was very detialed, but there was never really a butoom line to the points. Also there were many parts in the book where it was hard to read and follow. In a way this book was spacy and unrealistic to the point where it was pethetic. I hve read other peices by him, and I would not read this one before reading any others of his. One thing that I actually did like about this book was the emotion. You could actually feel the fear of the mother and the sadness in others. There were many similarities and metaphors in this novel. It kind of felt like a maze as I was reading it at some points. I don't regret reading this book, but overall I would not really recomend it.

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Summary: Pretty Impressive Book
Review: I had never read any books by Ray Bradbury and knew of him only as a science fiction writer. I went into the book thinking of it as a science fiction book and was not excited at all about reading the book. The book started off slow and didn't have much activity until the end of the book. The more I read of the book, the more I wanted to read the book. By the last 30 pages or so, I could hardly tear myself away from the book. It was very well written, packed with discription. This book brought back many childhood memories of endless summers, non stop excitement, childhood innocence, and curiosity and exploration of life in general. Being 18 and reading this book will have a different meaning than someone who reads it at 40 or 50, but it is an enjoyable book for all to read.

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Summary: Great Book
Review: Okay, so if i didn't have to read this book for school, i would've never read it in the first place. I'm not a big reader to begin with. I really do not enjoy reading books. Surprisingly i enjoyed this book greatly. The memories of the childhood were so vivid and clear. It brought me back to when i was younger and made me appreciate those memories even more. After starting to read the book i could hardly put it down. THe way Bradbury wrote was in a poetic way. Eventhough the book was choppy, i could follow it pretty well. I enjoyed his style of writing. It was so real and showed so much emotions and even brought mine out. It just really makes you go back in time and remember your childhood. It was an extremely detailed book which helped me put pictures of what was going on im my mind. You could actually put yourself in the writer's shoes. There were many thoughts put into the book in a very scattered but very interesting way. I'm glad that i got to read this book at 20 years old because i understood what he was talking about and made memories of my own childhood flash in my thoughts. If i read it when i was younger, i don't think that i would have appreciated it as much. So overall i give it 4 stars and recommend reading.

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Summary: makes you think of your younger days
Review: Dandelion wine by Ray Bradbury, was different from the usual books that i read. At times it was hard to read because of the way it jumped around from topic to topic. Overall i liked the book it reminded me of the things that i look forward to when it is summer time. some parts of the book seemed to drag on but it kept me interested for the most part. otherwise i liked the overall plot of the book but the only thing that i did not like was the organization. after getting past the organizational issue i enjoyed the book, it made me think of my childhood, with all the machines that the kids tried to make, because thats what i did when i was younger. It was an indirect way of making me think about the things that i did when i was younger because i was reading the book through the eyes of a 12 year old boy.