Dandelion Wine by Ray Bradbury Summary and Reviews
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Book Reviews of Dandelion Wine
Book Review: Bittersweet to the last...
Summary: 5 Stars
It's rather sad that our newest generation, weened on video games and bad movies, cannot relate to the bittersweet memories that Bradbury is able to so eloquently describe through the course of this novel. This work is a time capsule, a fragment of an innocent age lost when one grows up - and an age that today's youths cannot grasp or understand.The book itself is written with a dazzling sense of rythmn and pacing, flowing more like poetry than prose. The stories themselves are like memories of events you've never shared in, yet can relate to instinctively. It's a masterwork through and through, and is probably the best of Bradbury's vast library. I heartily recomend this to anybody with a soul.
Book Review: Bradbury is a Graet American Writer
Summary: 5 Stars
Bradbury is a great American writer, and draws you into episodic illustrations of life, painting a story with deep poetic images and emotions. I put him up there with Mark Twain and Hermann Hesse and Dostoyevski. His style is to present a battery of vingettes that, like the facets of a cut gem, show us many different facets of our emotional universe. He presents a Mark Twain-like panorama of the world seen thru the eyes of two adolescent boys in Midwest America, bringing us back to the scope of innocence and curiosity and the magic of being open to the wonder of the world. I think it is particularly good for teenagers in this age to see the realistic, yet poetic and magical view of youth. This book will take you back to the magic of your boyhood summers if you are older.
Book Review: CLASSICAL BRADBURY - A GREAT READ
Summary: 5 Stars
Being a Bradbury fan since the 50s, I must admit to being partial to his work and this particular book cetainl is one of my favorites. No only have I enjoyed this story over the years, I absolutely love reading the wonderful syntax, allegorical style of this writer. This genre of work owes a great deal to Bradbury. He and several of his contemporaries brought science fiction to the forefront and gave it "respectability." This story should appeal the the little boy and little girl in all of us. Having read it several times over the years, I of course recommend it highly.Book Review: Dandelion Wine
Summary: 3 Stars
I thought this book had alot of deeper meanings to it, yet hard to understand. The book was more like a lot of little stories - each with their own meaning, and lesson. You could really learn alot about life from all the little things it taught you. In general i thought this book to be deep and powerful, but hard to grasp.Book Review: Dandelion Wine
Summary: 1 Stars
This is without a doubt, the absolute worst book i have ever read in my life. Let me tell you i have read some horrible books that are pointless and have no relation whatsoever to life. However this one takes the cake. This isn't just a boring book. I have read books that were well made but are just boring to me such as Rebecca, Kidnap, and Great Expectations, but this book has no plot. Dandelion Wine is 239 pages of description. Some of the chapters include the character Douglass buying a pair of shoes, picking grapes, and brushing his teeth. This, as you can see, is quite "thrilling". I would rather take medicine than read this.