Dandelion Wine Lib/E (CD-Audio)

from Dorritt

I first read Ray Bradbury's miracle of a book, Dandelion Wine, when I was 16, and I have read it every year since. Over time I continue to gain a deeper appreciation for these lovely, strange, often magical vignettes (more properly parables, each one with a little implied moral) that explore the ...

from streamsong

About weeds in the lawn and gardening : ..they bend you over and turn you away from all the people and the town for a little while and sweat you and get you down where you remember you got a nose again. And when you're all to yourself that way, you're really yourself for a little while; you get t...

from AshRyan

In his introduction to the 1975 edition, Ray Bradbury explained much better than I can the essence of Dandelion Wine: "I was amused and somewhat astonished at a critic a few years back who wrote an article analyzing Dandelion Wine plus the more realistic work of Sinclair Lewis, wondering how I co...

from msf59

The summer of 1928. Bradbury takes us back to his childhood, growing up in a small town in northern Illinois. And what a glorious time. This fictionalized account is centered around twelve year old Douglas Spaulding, as he runs through this warm magical season, encountering a wonderful array of c...

from Smiler69

What can I possibly add about this wonderful little book which manages to capture all the best parts of summer along with timeless life lessons about the impermanence of all things, in wonderfully evocative, poetic prose? At first I was a bit doubtful as to whether I could give this little gem th...