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Summary: Knights and Shining armor
Review: "The Book of the Lion" by Michael Cadnum is a very well written book. The book takes place during the midevil era. The young teenager that is the main character goes on many adventures during his time as a squire. Fighting with a knight forfor Brittian who allied with the French, and the Franks. They all fought with the king Lion Heart as their leader. They fought to gether and the battle of.....Well You'll just have to read the book.I liked this book because it was a long book but I ZOOMED through it. I liked this book so much that I really got into it and it seemed as though i was right there with the soldiers as they charged the castle. I encourage people who like long suspencful books.
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Summary: EXCELLENTE!
Review: a very great book. It really describes the middle ages perfectly great. The description made are very clear so that you can imagine as if you are there.
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Summary: The Book of the Lion review
Review: I disliked The Book of the Lion because of the boring rising action. Michael Cadnum does a good job of giving details but in some parts of the book he tells the story in a boring and slow way.
In The Book of the Lion an apprentice named Edmund was awaken at night by the Exchequer's men. They were sent from the king to punish his master for making counterfeit coins. This part of the book got me absorbed into the story, but as I read more throughout the book I started to get more and more bored of the story. Michael Cadnum is a good writer because of the details he gives but he should make The Book of the Lion's story go a little faster.
This book has a good story and has a lot of details. Readers must be able to stick to a long and somewhat boring rising action in order for them to actually like the book. I would recommend this book to anyone who is interested in the subject.
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Summary: The Book of the Lion review
Review: I disliked The Book of the Lion because of the boring rising action. Michael Cadnum does a good job of giving details but in some parts of the book he tells the story in a boring and slow way.
In The Book of the Lion an apprentice named Edmund was awaken at night by the Exchequer's men. They were sent from the king to punish his master for making counterfeit coins. This part of the book got me absorbed into the story, but as I read more throughout the book I started to get more and more bored of the story. Michael Cadnum is a good writer because of the details he gives but he should make The Book of the Lion's story go a little faster.
This book has a good story and has a lot of details. Readers must be able to stick to a long and somewhat boring rising action in order for them to actually like the book. I would recommend this book to anyone who is interested in the subject.
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Summary: The Book of the Lion review
Review: I disliked The Book of the Lion because of the boring rising action. Michael Cadnum does a good job of giving details but in some parts of the book he tells the story in a boring and slow way.
In The Book of the Lion an apprentice named Edmund was awaken at night by the Exchequer's men. They were sent from the king to punish his master for making counterfeit coins. This part of the book got me absorbed into the story, but as I read more throughout the book I started to get more and more bored of the story. Michael Cadnum is a good writer because of the details he gives but he should make The Book of the Lion's story go a little faster.
This book has a good story and has a lot of details. Readers must be able to stick to a long and somewhat boring rising action in order for them to actually like the book. I would recommend this book to anyone who is interested in the subject.
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Summary: Good book!
Review: I liked this book because it wasn't a fairy tale. It told the Middle Ages like they were. Cleanliness and personal hygene weren't exactly a priority. People waited like, years before they had a bath. Nobody could read and write (except monks). And people died everday from pointless duels and disease (not to mention the bubonic plague). Nothing good came of the Crusades. They didn't even win back the Holy Land. Trade finally started up again, but that was about it. If you liked this book you should try: "Catherine Called Birdy" and "The Midwife's Apprentice" by Karen Cushman, and "The Door in the Wall" by Marguerite deAngeli.
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Summary: no time sense
Review: It was a ok book, telling the story of a young? apprentince coinsmyth. What I didn't like is no refrence to year, time of year or even what year. when he is first taken to the knight's household, and runs away, and captured, it seams like the following about him fixing the pots and such and becoming used to being there, takes days atleast if not weeks or longer, but is then called to see the Kinght, and you learn it was the same day. You don't even know how long they were at sea to the crusades. otherwize a good book about the not so nice life of the crusaders
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Summary: You can smell the middens
Review: Michael Cadnum puts us squarely into the alien environment of the 12th century in this well written and evocative novel of a young man's coming of age. Young apprentice Edmund is sentenced to go on Crusade for abetting his criminal master, and finds himself caught up in the excitement and terror of the Cause. Cadnum's vivid imagery had me holding my nose when Edmund's ship drifted down the sewage-laden Thames; this is not a pretty portrait of a romantic Middle Ages. Battlefield rape, smashed skulls, torture, and mutilation should put this novel out of reach of anyone under middle school age, but the unsentimental story and exquisite writing recommends it to anyone older, including adults.
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Summary: Interesting, but could have been better
Review: The Book of the Lion is a pretty good book, which tells of a young boy named Edmund. The book was good but it could have been better. The story is about Edmund going off with Sir Nigel to fight in the crusades, after he is arrested and Sir Nigel sets him free. You see, Sir Nigel is in need of a squire and Edmund immediatly agrees to join up with him, so that he can save his own skin. So after some begining adventures, which you'll find out about when you read the book, the two set off with the help of Sir Rannulf, another knight and a friend of Sir Nigel's, and Hubert, Sir nigel's other squire, as well as a whole batch of other characters that I again won't mention. The journy consists of them going to Italy and then sailing of to the Holy Lands. The next part of the story describes the battles of the Crusades, although the battles could have been a bit more exiting, and the whole book could have been a bit longer. I felt like the book centered to much on the time in between battles, and exiting parts, over just describing a lot while having something exiting happen. Although the book kept my intrest, I couldn't really get into it. If you like quick books, that are pretty exiting, not to bloody, and that have a dramatic side to them, than this book is for you.
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Summary: The Book of the Lion Review by Colin
Review: The Book of the Lion: Michael Cadnum Edmond's life is perfect. He is an apprentice of a blacksmith and is friends with a girl that he likes named Elviva. One day all this was ruined when his master was caught counterfeiting gold coins. His master was brutally killed by the soldiers and Edmond had a choice of his hands being chopped off or get sent off with the crusade because he was no better than a thief. He chose to be sent off with the crusade and believes that he won't be able to see Elviva again. Edmond becomes a second squire of a knight called Sir Nigel. After a long trip across the ocean there was a gust storm and a squire fell off the ship. Since Edmond was already a second squire of Sir Nigel he took place of the lost squire. The crusaders lay siege on the Castle of Acre. The story takes place in the medieval days where squires and knights take place. I felt like I was in the story myself as Edmond being one of the many squires and knights fighting their way into Acre. Once I started reading I couldn't put down the book for hours and the next thing I knew it was done. I recommend this book who likes historical fiction and lots of action at the climax. -Colin
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