Son of the Mob

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Summary: a hilarious book
Review: This was a great book and I couldn't put it down. Vince, the main character, doesn't want anything to do with the family "vending machine" business, and ends up dating the enemy. it was a great book I recommend to everyone!

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Summary: Hilarious
Review: This was an entertaining, laugh-out-loud book! Max Casella was awesome as the reader, and his voices are very believable. I was swept into the interesting story immediately, and it never lost my attention. Korman created in-depth characters and a great plot with comedy, romance, and suspense!

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Summary: Trying to escape his Long Island mob-boss father...
Review: Trying to escape his Long Island mob-boss father and family, 18-year-old Vince Luca attends a college in Santa Monica, California; however, when his brother and several "uncles" suddenly appear, Vince quickly discovers that they are not tourists. (M/H) (RR) Hilarious, laugh-aloud sequel to THE SON OF THE MOB, which is filled with unexpected twists!


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Summary: Worth every penny!
Review: Vince is a typical 17-year-old in an atypical situation, where breaking the law is normal, while following the law when doing something for someone shows you "really care" about them. The way Korman depicts The Life from a frustrated teenager's eyes is witty and hilarious and kept me turning the pages, even when I could already predict who was putting up the "Kendra and Vince for Homecoming king and queen" signs and why the Meow Marketplace was filling up with odd advertisements for cats. The ending is happy, but in the long run, I kind of doubt Vince and Kendra can pull it off. An FBI agent may not do anything about his daughter seeing a mob prince, but a mob king will very likely do something efficient about his son seeing an agent's daughter. Also, as Vince had mentioned, if Kendra's dad puts Vince's family in jail, how will he feel toward Kendra? But, there's the sign of a really good book, that it kept me thinking about it long after I'd read it. Worth every penny!

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Summary: Son of the Mob - keeper
Review: Vince Luca is a 17 year-old student who just wants to live the common high school life. Chasing girls, playing football, and other "normal" things are what he aspires to. However, Vince is in a rather precarious situation. His father is a mob boss and Vince wants to have nothing to do with it. His entire family with the exception of his mother, believes that one day he will come around and accept his position. Vince suffers the classic struggle of a protagonist trying to escape his family's reputation and image. However, Vince ends up right where he didn't want to be, posed by the F.B.I. as a loan-shark for his father's business.

The book "Son Of The Mob" is the perfect blend of something which, is very serious (mob-affiliation), and applying it to highschool life, something almost all teens can relate to. It is comedic excellence and had me yelling, gripped, and shaking my head at the misfortune and unexpected turns that Vince Luca takes. At every moment, Gordon Korman throws in another piece of the plot to thicken and enrich the book. Not deep by any standards, this book does have an amazing correlation to Shakespeare's "Romeo and Juliet." Vince and Kendra, being the "star-crossed lovers," and their families of completely opposite backgrounds makes the book suspenseful and comical.

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Summary: Son Of The Mob
Review: Vince Luca is is a 17 year old High School student and happens to have a family that is part of a Mob but Vince wants to different he wants to build a life for himself and not have to depend on his "family". And who would not want a best friend that wants to score through you and is around all the time. One thing seems to go right when Vince meets a girl from school at a party and ends up helping her to get away from a guy that has had to much to drink by telling him that Kendra is his girlfriend, but it turns out what Vince thought is what he need in life turned out to be a pain because Kendra's dad is an FBI agent who happends to be investigating Vince's father and his "vending machine" business and Vince can not be seen with Kendra in front of her father so they only see each other when they can be alone. This book is similar to a Romero and Juliet story with its own little twist. I recommed this book for High School students in the 11th and 12th grade..

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Summary: Gotta read Son of the Mob!!!
Review: Vince Luca is just an ordinary high school kid. His dad is a mob,his brother puts bodies in the back of trunks and hes got over sixty uncles who come to his house for business.

I liked this book a lot. My favorite part of the book is when Vince and his friend Alex go to a frat party and they meet a girl from there school named Kendra. They know her from there school. At the party theres a drunk guy who who likes kendra, and she does'nt like him. Vince can tell she wants nothin of him. Vince helps her out by tell the guy that kendra's his girl friend. Then Kendra and make out,but then loss each other in the croud of people. I also liked the part when Vinces brother pays a call girl for him, because he put a body in Vinces car trunk. Vince. When Vice goes to his brothers apartment Cece, the call girl is there waiting for him. Those were some of my favorite parts in the SON OF THE MOB.

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Summary: Entertaining
Review: Vince Luca is the son of one the most powerful mob bosses in America. He has grown up in a house tapped by the FBI where his last name gets him all sorts of privileges out of fear of his father. Vince however does not want to lead a life of crime and wants nothing to do with his family's business the mafia. One night Vince thinks he's about to score on a date but when he goes to get a blanket out of his car's trunk he discovers a body. This kind of thing for some reason puts his date off and Vince does not see any action. A few weeks later and along with his best friend Alex who can't get a girl either, he attracts the eye of a beautiful student journalist named Kendra. Head lice bring them together in her father's house where Vince learns her dad's an FBI agent. Later he learns the very same agent who is bugging his house. What is a reluctant son of the most feared crime family to do?

This is a very easy to read, fast and simple novel. Whilst the ending does seem to be rather open ended, probably in the hope of a go ahead from the publishers for a sequel the book is extremely entertaining. I'll definitely be checking out more work by this author.


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Summary: Lil' Sopranos
Review: Vincent Lucas is the youngest son of crime boss Anthony Lucas. Although he enjoys the fruits of his family's ill gotten gains (like a new Porsche for his sixteenth birthday), he isn't particularly interested in following in his father's footsteps, especially when he becomes romantically involved with the daughter of the FBI agent gunning to put his father away. He finds himself at odds with his father when he takes pity on two men who owe his dad some money. Vince wants to show the scumbags how to budget. His dad wants to do it the mob way - cut off a few fingers with the garden shears.

Meanwhile, he faces the typical complications of being a teen, like trying to get his schoolwork done and play quarterback on the high school football team, while also trying to avoid the complications of his family's business, like the unconscious body of a man in the trunk of his car.

Will Vince be able to escape the family business? Will he and Kendra find true love and live happily ever after?

Max Cassella does an excellent job narrating this audiobook, with an authentic wiseguy, Sopranos-esque voice. The humorous, fast paced story will hold the attention of any teen as well as be an enjoyable story for the parents to listen to in the car.

With the runaway success of The Sopranos, all things mafia are very popular currently. An exciting crime element (albeit with very toned down violence) combined with a thoughtful, funny, likeable protagonist would interest even the most reluctant audiobook user. The narrator's fast paced voice and hilarious delivery do an excellent job holding the attention of the listener, even in the unabridged format.

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Summary: The Godfather for teens
Review: WOW this book is great. it's hilarious, it has a good plot, and so much more. the way the author writes this you feel exactly like you know what mob life is like. i would reccomend it to 13 and older.