Apr 12
Click for larger imageFluffyGhostKitten Comments: Today’s cover was brought to you by the letters I and N, for “intravenous nutmeg”.
Published 1964
(Average: 6.64 out of 10)
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FluffyGhostKitten Comments: Today’s cover was brought to you by the letters I and N, for “intravenous nutmeg”.
Published 1964
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April 12th, 2021 at 11:49 am
Yup, that’s scumble made by Nanny Ogg. Apples, mostly.
April 12th, 2021 at 12:42 pm
The artist made sure to leave nothing out of this dandelion wine. Except one thing. Begins with a D.
April 12th, 2021 at 2:27 pm
I suspect the influence of something stronger.
April 12th, 2021 at 3:39 pm
The most toxic ingredient is the grumpy old man who disapproves of the younger generation.
April 12th, 2021 at 4:13 pm
In the immortal words of Eric Burdon
♫ Spill the wine, take that pearl ♫
April 12th, 2021 at 7:09 pm
I’ve always wondered what sort of sound wind chimes make when submersed in wine. I still don’t know.
April 12th, 2021 at 8:29 pm
How helpful of the design team to add a little red arrow to point out the price.
@Mouseover: I’d say apple wine has less butterflies and more angry old man, but perceptions can be subjective (in blindfold tastes, even experts confused apple wine with the purple stuff rejected in favor of Sunny D.)
I suppose the images are actually meant to represent the stories within: I myself had quite forgotten Bradbury’s classic story, Running With Scissors.
April 12th, 2021 at 10:36 pm
Strange, yes.
Wonderful, no.
Ray had a good line in horror, but this book mostly isn’t.
This novel is about summer, specifically the summer of a 12 year old boy in an idyllic small town, so of course it needed a cover that’s dark and gloomy, and contains no dandelions whatsoever.
@Bruce: the scissors are in Chapter 30! Windchimes, chap. 37.
April 13th, 2021 at 8:20 am
@GSS ex-noob: did it also have Death!, wiring diagrams, and what appears to be either a ghost or a cultist?
This is the more appropriate-looking copy I have had in my to-read stack(s) for several years now: hopefully I will get around to it before molecular migration leads it to fuse with the surrounding books.
https://2.bp.blogspot.com/-dvNXtMtKfdI/V7B4z2waH8I/AAAAAAAASrY/4-ycqGGnT6gsHJXkfswUBfJhISbceSrzQCLcB/s1600/Dandelion%2BWine.jpg
April 13th, 2021 at 10:26 am
My copy has a big (painted) closeup of an actual dandelion on it. Taking it literally, you see.
April 13th, 2021 at 11:28 pm
@Bruce: Definitely Death! and I don’t know about the wiring diagrams.
Your cover is the one I remember being in my school library. Seems much more appropriate for elegiac musings about a boy in the country.
April 14th, 2021 at 9:38 am
Honey, have you seen my dentures?