| Dandelion Wine (Grand Master Editions) | 
 enlarge | Author: Ray Bradbury
Publisher: Spectra
Category: Book
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Avg. Customer Rating:  262 reviews
Sales Rank: 150389
Media: Mass Market Paperback
Number Of Items: 1
Pages: 256
Shipping Weight (lbs): 0.3
Dimensions (in): 6.8 x 4.2 x 0.9
ISBN: 0553277537
Dewey Decimal Number: 813.54
EAN: 9780553277531
ASIN: 0553277537
Publication Date: April 1, 1985
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 Audio Version of This book July 3, 2007
0 out of 3 found this review helpful
This audio version is just awful! You can not hear the actors voices and so you turn it up a bit. Still some voices are audible and others aren't. Then the worst part...the special effects sounds/noises. They are so loud they scare the crud out of you and drown out everything else. They where so loud they shook the walls. I got as far as 10 minutes into the first disc and had to turn it off. I have hundreds of books on CDs but this is the worst I've ever heard. Buy the book again or buy some other audio book. This one stinks!!!
 I live in Waukegan June 25, 2007
Although today's Waukegan (aka Green Town) is going through a rebirth as I write this, it's easy to picture Washington, Glen Rock, St James and Gennessee as Roads and Avenues while reading Dandelion Wine. Ray's ode to Waukegan is written with a great deal of LOVE. On a sunny day after reading the book, I went to each place. Most of it is still standing, but the area needs a boost.
The basic premise is 8 year old Douglas Spaulding lives life in Green Town and each experience is new to him. The book, I think, made Nostalgia fashionable. Twilight Zone copied it with the episode Walking Distance, so did Stephen King in the novella The Body, and The Wonder Years was written with similar themes. I could be wrong, but it started here with Dandelion Wine.
For anyone wanted to escape life's stresses or think of a time long gone, Dandelion Wine is for you. If only childhood could be so magical.
Unlike other readers who grew up reading this, I read it for the first time this year. This will become one of those books I read regularly.
Uncork and Inhale the Heady Aroma June 12, 2007
3 out of 4 found this review helpful
Note: I made some immature Mormon angry because of my negative reviews of books that attempted to prove the Book of Mormon, and that person has been slamming my reviews almost as fast as they are posted.
So, your "helpful" votes are appreciated. Thanks, and note that a short review is not necessarily a bad review if it leads you to a great book.
I cannot add much in review of this classic novel, but I will quote a few wonderful lines that may lead you to read the book. Bradbury is magic. I hope the following lines make my short review (high recommendation) worth reading. Here's the hook:
"And some days, he went on, were days of hearing every trump and trill of the universe. Some days were good for tasting and some for touching. And some days were good for all the senses at once. This day now, he nodded, smelled as if a great and nameless orchard had grown up overnight beyond the hills to fill the entire visible land with its warm freshness. Their felt like rain, but there were no clouds. Momentarily, a stranger might laugh off in the woods, but there was silence...."
inspired March 16, 2007
4 out of 5 found this review helpful
Encompasses the feel of a bygone era with yearning, dread, awe, joy and mystery. Really captures the spirit of being young. I have had a few things published and I would have to say reading this book as a youth inspired me to TRY writing. Thanks, Ray!
An awesome book...4.5 stars March 10, 2007
2 out of 2 found this review helpful
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.
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