| Dandelion Wine (Grand Master Editions) | 
 enlarge | Author: Ray Bradbury
Publisher: Spectra
Category: Book
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Avg. Customer Rating:  262 reviews
Sales Rank: 181937
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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 Not really for children. May 13, 2006
6 out of 7 found this review helpful
Its protagonist may be a child, but this novel is not really suitable for a thrill-seeking, modern juvenile audience.
Dandelion Wine is an exquisitely realised contemplation of life and mortality, but its themes are both too subtle and too layered for a young reader. That's fine, really. This is a novel to be anticipated and appreciated as the reader matures.
As I grow older, and with each subsequent reading, I discover a deeper melancholy and richer ironies inthe text - so that rereading this book has become a special summer ritual for me.
 Hard going due to personal taste April 19, 2006
5 out of 17 found this review helpful
I'm a new fan of Bradbury. I love the incomparable Something Wicked This Way Comes and a whole heap of his short stories, The Illustrated Man and Golden Apples of the Sun to name my favourites so far.
I came to Dandelion Wine expecting to be mesmerised, but sadly, I just found the book was too easy to put down and rather hard to pick up again. There are some great ideas and interesting imagery, but the whole lacks a narrative thread to entice more thrill-seeking readers, and in the end, after four of five chapters, I just found the whole thing a little...well, dated.
In no way should this put people off Ray Bradbury. Those seeking a semi-romance about the state of childhood could do worse than to read Dandelion Wine. For me though, I much prefer his fantastical and dark works, and in the end, Dandelion Wine became too sweet and cloying for my tastes.
CLASSICAL BRADBURY - A GREAT READ April 12, 2006
2 out of 2 found this review helpful
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.
Bradbury Shrugs Off The Shackles Of Sci-Fi & Horror To Create Another Masterpiece March 21, 2006
4 out of 4 found this review helpful
Dandelion Wine is not the typical Ray Bradbury novel and yet, in many ways, it is. Whimsical and charming with so much childhood dreams packed into its pages, you can't help but fall right into it. 12 year-old Doug Spaulding is the main character and we follow him through his fantastic world, smelling the wet grass, climbing through the trees, running hellbent through the ravine with a serial killer in tow. Dark in places, but lighter in most others, I use Dandelion Wine to cleanse myself after reading something gritty ala Clive Barker or Thomas Harris. One of my all-time favorites (many of which were written by none other than Ray Bradbury) Dandelion Wine shines.
Dig it!
 This book is terrible. February 27, 2006
0 out of 45 found this review helpful
Hurrah! I have escaped Dandelion Wine's clutches for ever more! I have finished the book! Huzzah! Hurrah! Now let's burn it!
Seriously though, the book was a waste of time. Boring as hell, the main idea to the book was a boy realized he was alive. Yes, my friends, he realized he was alive. Filled to the brim with pointless stories of the town folk this book, badly needed an editor to smack Ray Bradbury upside the head and ask what the hell he was thinking or what he was smoking when he wrote certain parts. Peppered with improper grammar and a few spelling errors, it frustrates the common Grammar Nazi even more.
Obviously, this book is the cure for insomnia. At the mere mention of this book you may yawn and feel drowsy. I know I did. I'm getting sleepy now just thinking about the book. You have to fight to stay awake so much while reading it you can hardly concentrate on the mediocre text. This book would serve well as a pillow than reading material.
Why my teacher had us read this book I don't think I'll ever know. Possibly she wanted to expose us to bad literature and how to avoid it. Maybe she's a nut and actually enjoyed it. Who knows? All I know is don't read Dandelion Wine.
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