Saturnalia

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Summary: Saturnalia
Review: Saturnalia~~> It's a good mystery book,for instance like when a mystery man follows William around. I think I would like the book more if I could understand it though, for instance there was to many (1600) words i guess you could say. The book was about a boy named William who was taken away from everything he new and loved, like his family and culture. He goes and lives as a servant with this caring family. He mets up with on of his relatives...who?...will he leave and go live with them...? If you are a good reader and like books with mystery and hummor you would like saturnalia.

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Summary: HILO
Review: The book Saturnalia is a gripping tale of a Narraganset Indian boy who, by day, is a printer's apprentice but by night he is a 13-year-old boy looking for his brother. There are also many different characters in this novel and each one has their own part in the book. One of my favorite characters is Malcolm the wig-maker's servant who thinks every girl is in his reach and that his poop doesn't stink. Now I'm really 14 but my teacher thought it best that we, my class and I, used the child thingy for privacy reasons. So if you are 10-15 you would like this book.

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Summary: Not Bad
Review: This book has many qualities for a good book but has a few bad ones. The way he wrote this book is amazing. How he shifts perspectives from character to character and the way he makes them sound like they actually lived in colonial times is something I've never seen in most books. But he does use difficult vocabulary and long sentences, usually what a reader avoids in a book. The characters are colorful and seem real though. One character in this book known as Malcom will make you laugh at every twist and turn.
To me the plot is the most important part of a book and his plot doesn't have much action but has at least three different sides to the story.
The theme is really interesting by making you think about how it would be to be torn between two different cultures in the colonial times.
I would definitely recommened this book to those who have a big vocabulary and of those who love to read books.

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Summary: boring dont read it
Review: This book i have to say was very boring!! I could never follow along, and i wanted to sleep through it!! I would not recommend this book for any age!! Well maybe an adult!! It maybe a good book for a class to read together like mine did. But i would not read it by yourself . I did not like the whole book put together!! It switched off from characters like every minute!! I could not tell who was narareting this book. And some of the chapeters just did not make sence!! Thank you for reading and,as i will say again i would not recomment this book for groups of kids!!

as i will say again i would not recomment this book for groupe of kids!!

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Summary: SWEET
Review: This book is BORING all the way. I couldn't keep up with the characters. The plot was stupid. Everything that happened was unrealistic. Gideon killed Mr. Rudd. Over all it ..... The only thing that was kool was a ladies man, Malcom.Theis made it not be totaly stupid although it is close enough.

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Summary: i need less.
Review: this book was a collaberation of different elements but all together it wasnt all that it is cracked up to be. i read this book a shady little saturday on my PRIVATE yacht and i thought a book with the name saturnalia woud be quite entertaining but after the thirty minutes it took me to read it i was uphauled at the lack of effort to write a novel. i mean sure it is only a childrens novel but hey there are better things coming out of women i mean cum on! the book was mainly about a young narraganset indian boy who is captured and is sentenced to being a serveant of a printing family. the strory takes place in colonial times and contains more than one story in the book (far too much for the quality of the authors writing.) on yay scale it gets a negative nay! the books strong parts were (certainly limeted to.): the style.: the book transitioned very nicely and was very creative. (do i detect a hint of a robert louis stevenson?) the setting.: you could smell the stench of dead women from the stocks!!! (laughs smuggly.) i wold rather use this book as a doorstop instead of some sort of reading matieral.

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Summary: Saturnalia
Review: This book was very unentertainig and short. It had many more cons than pros and it had me practicaly sleeping. Anyways, Saturnalia is a book about a Narraganset boy named William that had his tribe killed by the colonists and was enslaved by Mr. Currie who is very nice to William. So William looks for his lost brother hoping he is alive. Mr. Baggot is the tithingman who despises William because his grandchildren were killed by Indians. If this sounds interesting to you, then you should read it.

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Summary: Atmospheric read
Review: This slim volume is a good historical fiction glimpse for young adults. It tells the story of William, a young Narraganset Indian who was captured in King Philip's war, and now serves a printer in Boston, where he is treated kindly and learns to study books and English ways. By day he is English, and by night William sneaks out and scours the December streets looking for his lost Indian brother. Though the plot focuses on William, the book is full of colorful characters of the Puritan city, some ridiculous, others tragic. What I like most about this book is the cimenatic way in which our focus is led from one character to another, keeping the perspectives fresh and interesting. (For this reason I think the book would make a good film for television.)Fleishman has done a good job of conjuring up the atmosphere of early Boston, and the eerie world of the dark city at night. Because the book is so short, I'm not sure Fleishman does entire justice to the complex themes he has raised - the struggle of the young Indian between two cultures, the struggle within the English colonists between Puritan strictness and the human need to have fun (in ways such as celebrating the ancient Roman holiday for which the book is named), etc. Nor does it entirely resolve the fates of some of the characters, such as the wood carver who seeks to atone for his wartime past. Nonetheless, this is an enjoyable, atmospheric, and original read.

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Summary: Amazingly Boring
Review: We had to read this book in class, and every one was strugglingto stay awake. I guess you might find this interesting if you had thechance to read it on your own time, but when it is drawn out for twomonths, it is the most boring thing in the world. It was confusing when the characters veiwpoints swiched, so much that it was hard to know who was narrating the story. Don't read this unless you have to.

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Summary: Very boring and confusing!
Review: Well Saturnalia is a really boring and confusing book . You just get lost in the book so many times so it messes with your head. I do not recommend this book to anyone. This book is about " colonial times" and like who cares about old stuff anymore today!and just letting you know im 14 years old but im writing in the kids section because our teacher made us!