Dandelion Wine by Ray Bradbury Summary and Reviews
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Book Reviews of Dandelion Wine
Book Review: A toast to Summer 1928!
Summary: 5 Stars
Dandelion Wine, like the summertime drink it's named after, captures the essence of Summer 1928 in Green Town, Illinois. Rifling through the pages, absorbing the words printed in ink, takes us back to that long childhood summer of Douglas and his younger brother, Tom Spaulding as if we were lapping the sweet intoxicating magical drink that captures time itself stamped and dated on each reused ketchup bottle.
Every section heading (for there are no chapters, only events to mark the passing of summer days) is marked with a dandelion--a flower to fill Grandpa Spaulding's glass jar wall with the memories of summer. The novel follows the adolescent Doug on his journey through another summer as ever more memorable than the last. But this summer has an extra special something to it. It is the summer Douglas Spaulding first felt alive.
Ray Bradbury takes us on another childhood adventure where the next leap could land you in the mysterious forgetful days of adulthood. His writing fills the reader with a sense of excitement and wonder as his atmosphere builds itself inside of you until you can no longer remember whose memories you experience and long for--your own, or those of an imagined boy eating lime ice cream on a hot July day or putting pennies in the machine for Madame Tarot's fortune telling during the dwindling days of August.
This was a wonderful novel of insightful discoveries with a exuberance and celebration of life found only in a Bradbury novel. I highly recommend you add this, Dandelion Wine to your shelves to admire and pull down on cold winter nights. Whether it's the weather that has you down or something deeper, something hidden within the self has wrapped icy fingertips around your heart, take down Dandelion Wine, open it up, and experience the wonderful and magical Summer of 1928.
Book Review: A wonderful book
Summary: 5 Stars
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.Book Review: Almost as bad as finegans way
Summary: 1 Stars
This book is filled with nothing but a collection of tedious scenes, strung together by nothing. There is no plot, no "growth". Trying to read this book was as close to getting a colonoscopy as anything else I have ever experienced. Should be used by the FBI for torture.Book Review: An awesome book...4.5 stars
Summary: 5 Stars
I have been a fan of Bradbury's for a long time, and Dandelion Wine does not disappoint. I love his writing, as usual. Sometimes the chapters in this book can go on forever though, and some are quite filler. It's not quite a 5 star novel, but it's damn close.
4.5 stars, a magical book by the best writer in science fiction/fantasy today.
Book Review: Beautiful nostalgic story
Summary: 5 Stars
This book is a real delight to read, at least I remember it being so when I read it some fifteen years ago. If memory serves me, it's just the simple story of a boy's childhood during a summer in the 1920s. But it's the overall atmosphere which Bradbury creates through his vivid descriptions that makes it so charming. Do you remember a time in your youth when you could just lay out on some grass while the crickets serenade you into blissful daydreamish stillness while looking up at the stars in the summer night sky? I know I do. If so and you'd like to revisit that state of mind, you would benefit from reading this book. I think I may revisit it soon.