So I liked it. The ending wasn't how I thought it would end as it was peculiar. A good read. A good many metaphors.

I remember reading a ray bradbury review where they mentioned something about him being an ‘autumnal author’. Someone who writes about fall, the ends of things like childhood and the changing of the leaves, and they were so right. That description has stuck with me since and I see it, especially in later pieces, in so many of his works. I’ve never met (read) an author who was an entire season of emotions. There’s such a powerful nostalgia that crosses gender, maybe race and culture though I couldn’t say. And it’s a beautiful nostalgia, not good or bad, but so intense, and dreamy, almost spooky almost magical. It pops up in the Martian chronicles and Fahrenheit, but it’s so prevalent in this series which is why I give them a higher rating than some maybe.

I didn't love this book as much as I love dandelion wine, but it was nice revisiting the characters and the town.

I'm a huge Ray Bradbury fan.  I haven't found another writer who can accurately capture the nostalgia of childhood so perfectly.  I read Dandelion Wine for the first time a few years ago and it instantly became my favorite book of all time.  It was so perfect in fact that I decided to hold off on reading the sequel, Farewell Summer, until this year.

Farewell Summer brings readers back to Green Town, Illinois with summer hanging on in to early October.  Doug Spaulding and his friends find a rival in school board leader Calvin Quartermain as they try to make summer last forever, starting a war between the youth and the elderly, both unable to stop the ticking of the clock.

Another powerful coming of age story full of bittersweet nostalgia eloquently written by Bradbury.  Most of this sequel was actually written at the same time as Dandelion Wine but was set aside when the publishers decided it would make the novel too long.
Fifty years later, Bradbury released this long awaited sequel, beautifully polished over the years.

Farewell Summer is a lovely final visit to Green Town with Doug.  If you're a fan of Bradbury and/or coming of age novels, be sure and read both Dandelion Wine and Farewell Summer!

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Прекрасно продължение на "Вино от глухарчета", написано десетилетия след първата книга, но Рей е все така талантлив. Много тъжна книга, общо взето една от книгите, за които има преди и след прочитането й.

Dandelion Wine is one of the books I hold closest to my heart, so needless to say I eagerly opened the pages of this book. I loved revisiting Green Town, the world Bradbury creates with his homespun wisdom and fancies. His attention to detail about small town life, growing up, and self realization at times are breathtaking. Although, I would say this book isn't as good as Dandelion Wine, it feels more like an extension of it, so it's difficult to rate it based on just the story in its pages.
All in all, I could visit Green Town in any of Bradbury's stories and be perfectly satisfied.

As summer comes to a close, young Douglas Spaulding assembles an army of friends to wage a fruitless war against the passage of time.

Sweetly melancholy reflections about the seemingly endless days of our youth and how they inevitably slip away on our path to adulthood.

Doug is still trying to stop the wheels of time. He has new "enemies" in what he perceives to be the mechinations of the older men of the town and, eventually, the town clock. The way he is drags his heels, fighting the inevitable, is all too familiar because he realizes that the familiarity of his life is slipping away. Even though he knows that new adventures await, change never comes easy.

Продовження "Кульбабового вина", яке автор видав майже через 50років після першої частини. Перша частина дуже справила враження,а друга, як на мене, - слабша.
Події розгортаються навколо 13ти річного підлітка Дугласа Сполдінга, його брата Тома, друзів хлопчаків і їхні спроби зупинити дорослішання. Роман описує зміну поколінь і взаємовідношення дітей та старших людей. Як на мене занадто наївна і дитяча поведінка як для хлопців 13ти річного віку, але так як Рей Бредбері частково описує своє дитинство, можливо на ті роки це було ок) Також в першій частині подобалось що було багато розповідей про жителів містечка, їхні історії та пригоди, в "Прощавай, літо!" ж оповідь зосереджується на одній історії. Загалом непогана книга, але у вигляді окремої а не як продовження, я б її не дуже запамятала.

"- що ти хочеш знати?
- Усе, - відповів Дуглас.
- Усе? - лагідно засміявся Квотермейн. - Це займе н�� більше 10 хвилин.
- А якщо я хочу знати щось?
- Щось? Одну особливу річ? Що ж, Дуг, це займе усе життя."

“Learning to let go should be learned before learning to get. Life should be touched, not strangled. You've got to relax, let it happen at times…”

Touching and emotional until the very end where I was actually laughing so hard it kind of ruined the rest of the book for me. Not in a “now i think the book is bad” way but more in a “I can’t even remember what I wanted to say about the positive aspects of this one.”

3.5: I really enjoy this author's writing style and this book didn't disappoint in that aspect. The story, however felt a little slim and the ending was not my favorite-I felt like I kind of missed the point.

I enjoyed this overall. It was good just not as good as Dandelion Wine. It lacked some of the magic.