the timeless and eternal Ray Bradbury, with over half a million ratings on Goodreads for [b:Fahrenheit 451|4381|Fahrenheit 451|Ray Bradbury|http://d202m5krfqbpi5.cloudfront.net/books/1351643740s/4381.jpg|1272463] alone, is America's bard, troubadour of the eternally green-treed Midwest, architect of...
Dandelion Wine was first published in 1957 and is a fix-up novella of other loosely connected short stories, many of which had been previously published. However, upon listening to it, I could not tell that it was written in such a way, which shows Ray Bradbury‘s craftsmanship in sticking them all t...
Dandelion Wine is a collection of related vignettes that support and periodically return to one plot thread, or a short novel interrupted by many related vignettes. The entire book, including the vignettes but especially the main plot thread (twelve-year-old Douglas Spalding's coming of age in Green...
So it seems odd that this is the first thing I've read by Bradbury. I know he is a science fiction author and he's been on my "to read" list for a while. When I was at the library earlier this week, I grabbed this off the shelf assuming it would be an interesting sci fi read. But it's not. I read...
This is really a collection of short stories, all set in Green Town, Illinois, during the summer of 1928. Much of it set around twelve-year-old Douglas and his first steps into adulthood (he realizes, for the first time, that he's alive and mortal). But there's a lot happening in Green Town. The sto...
A simple, charming book about a young boy's discoveries over a perfect summer. Bradbury captures precisely the sights, sounds, and feel of life in a small Midwestern town. I love the way his descriptive imagery echoes in the rhythm and pacing of his words.
A simple, charming book about a young boy's discoveries over a perfect summer. Bradbury captures precisely the sights, sounds, and feel of life in a small Midwestern town. I love the way his descriptive imagery echoes in the rhythm and pacing of his words.
I first read this during my teenaged Bradbury binge and loved it. It spoke to me personally in a way that, say, The Martian Chronicles, did not. Doug Spaulding may as well have been me.The second time I read it, in my twenties, all I really remembered was two out of three early episodes (the tennis ...
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