Dandelion Wine by Ray Bradbury Summary and Reviews
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Book Reviews of Dandelion Wine
Book Review: My all-time favorite book!
Summary: 5 Stars
Dandelion Wine is required reading for me every February, when I am overwhelmed with winter in Wisconsin. Through every page, Bradbury's descriptive prose evokes smells of damp, green summers & freshly mown lawns. I can close my eyes and see the fireflies flickering in the gathering twilight, hear screen doors slamming, feel the cool summer evening breeze as I slowly glide on the porch swing. Dandelion Wine truly intoxicates. Highly recommended!!!Book Review: NOT Science fiction
Summary: 4 Stars
Ray Bradbury proves he is the king of simile, metaphor and imagery in this lightly autobiographical rambling about the summer of 1928 in Green Town, Illinois. The young boys Doug and Tom come to many deep realizations during the summer, not the least of which regard the great mysteries of life, death, happiness, and fear. There is no cohesive plot, but one is hardly missed with such poetic vignettes to take its place. WARNING: This is NOT Science Fiction.Book Review: Nostalgic and beautiful
Summary: 5 Stars
The first story I ever read from "Dandelion Wine" was the one about Douglas getting his new tennis shoes -- back when I was in third grade it was in our reader. Nowadays, this probably wouldn't mean as much as it did then, since everyone wears tennis shoes (or running shoes or cross-trainers or whatever) pretty much year round, but it meant a lot when I was a kid and transition from "school shoes" to tennis shoes meant summer!Later I got to read the entire book and I still pick it up from time to time to remember childhood and summer and how it felt to have world enough and time to do anything ... a feeling you lose quickly enough to adulthood. Bradbury's prose is lyrical and magical and evocative and very much a part of the joy of this book.
Book Review: Not as good as he has done...
Summary: 2 Stars
I believe Ray Bradburys book, Dandilion Wine, is a good book, but I also believe it is not equal to what he has or could have written. I read Fharenheite 451, and that was great. This is simply a good book, and a great book for most other writers, but just a average book for Ray Bradbury.Book Review: Oh, to be a 12 year old boy!
Summary: 5 Stars
I first read this around 30 years ago after gulping down a dozen or so of the Bradbury sci fi books. I was tiring of him and ready to move on when I discovered this little gem. What a treat; I was transformed into seeing the world thru the eyes of a 12 year old boy, where new tennis shoes can make you fly, and the Civil War veteran is a living time travel machine, and the fortune-telling machine gypsy needs to be rescued from the evil arcade owner.
I reread this recently in preparation to read the recently released "Forever Summer." The magic is just as strong this time around.