Binding: Mass Market Paperback
Dewey Decimal Number: 813.54
EAN: 9780553277531
Edition: Rev. Ed
ISBN: 0553277537
Label: Bantam Doubleday Dell Publishing Group
Manufacturer: Bantam Doubleday Dell Publishing Group
Number Of Items: 1
Number Of Pages: 256
Publication Date: November 30, 1998
Publisher: Bantam Doubleday Dell Publishing Group
Studio: Bantam Doubleday Dell Publishing Group
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I read this book every couple of years or so, it's like a dear old friend. It captures the joys of childhood that are locked in the memory of most adults.
Thankyou Ray Bradbury for many happy hours of reading!
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I read this book a number of years ago and it's one of my favourites,I read it every couple of years or so, if you like a look back at more innocent days this is for you although it has that supernatural Ray Bradbury quality too, it's superb!!
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They say childhood ends when you start to remember it. Twelve year old Douglas is on the verge of this moment. He is realizing that summer is made of certain sounds, sights, smells, experiences. But somehow he also realizes that -- once past childhood -- we notice these glories much less often. Afraid of losing these things, he begins to keep a diary off all that he learns, all that he notices, all that happens.
This book is nothing short of magical. Bradbury captures the essence ...
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A wonderful evocation of growing up in small town USA in that post WW2 time when everything seemed possible, and the world took one big breath of hope for the future. The story captures the feelings of its central narrator, a small boy who realises the joy of being alive. By the end he has become aware of his own mortality.
Bradbury's human beings are caught as living, sentient beings via his magical prose style. Not a book to study in class, but one to be read under the covers. Full of a wisdom ...
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Like the previous reviewer I bought this book expecting something else. It is quite an extraordinary work that reminded me of "To Kill A Mockingbird" in its depiction of children trying to relate to events and people around them over the course of a summer. Bradbury interweaves some elements of fantasy but in a way that is neither obtrusive nor irrelevant to the very human stories within. If Bradbury were not so strongly associated with Sci-fi I think this book would be lauded more and would indeed be ...
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