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Title: Street Boys by Lorenzo Carcaterra ISBN: 0-345-41099-8 Publisher: Fawcett Books Pub. Date: 29 July, 2003 Format: Mass Market Paperback Volumes: 1 List Price(USD): $7.99 |
Average Customer Rating: 2.5 (24 reviews)
Rating: 3
Summary: Four-day screenplay
Comment: Let's recognize some basics: In September 1943, a small number of people, most of them young orphans, fought a pitched street battle with German tanks and soliders in the dying days of the war in Naples. Quattro Giornate is an historic event; "Street Boys" is not. Some will say the book reads better as a screenplay; the Italians already made the movie, forty years ago. Books need to be copy edited for spelling, accuracy and consistency; "Street Boys" is missing some of this. Some want the book to be truer to the history or at least more realistic; "Street Boys" has battle scenes that read like a cross among "Saving Private Ryan", "The Little Rascals", and the Hardy Boys.
Enter 'Quattro Giornate' along with 'Napoli' and '1943' in a Google search and you can find enough history to judge the relative accuracy of this book. If you're looking for historical accuracy, this book is not it. Men and women were more of a presence in the battle; the Germans were not the pathetic, Keystone Cops portrayed in the book. Naples was crushed, literally and figuratively, by petty, evil, vengeful Germans, but not without a fight, however small and however late.
The characters are cardboard. Picture Colin Farrell as the one-man American army. Select any llithesome, nubile, dark-haired, olive skinned starlet du jour to play Nunzia. Or a young Leonard DiCaprio as the partisan child leader, Vincenzo. But the scenery and weather are pretty, no matter how much desolation brought on by the war. The events are heroic and ripe for Hollywood over-the-top scenes, e.g., menancing Germans shot by amazingly accurate fire from untrained youths at the last second.
"Street Boys" could be a whole lot better. The story deserves better. But I would not dismiss this book, if only because the basic story should be remembered and writing your own screenplay in your head from a mediocre book is a much better exercise then watching a bad or even mediocre movie.
Rating: 4
Summary: It's all about bravery
Comment: This book might not have been very accurate, but the auther did tell us at the beggining of the novel that not everything was accurate. Its a very compelling book about how brave children faught the german army. They faugh from the heart like true soldiers. Even though this book is not very accurate it is a good book to read, it shows what bravery is.
Rating: 3
Summary: Quick Reading
Comment: This is quick and entertaining reading. Although it is predictable and unrealistic at the same time the author creates a quick and easy read that is exciting and entertaining.
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Title: A Safe Place : The True Story of a Father,a Son,a Murder by Lorenzo Carcaterra ISBN: 0345383486 Publisher: Ballantine Books Pub. Date: 02 April, 1994 List Price(USD): $6.99 |
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Title: Apaches by Lorenzo Carcaterra ISBN: 0345422511 Publisher: Ballantine Books Pub. Date: 28 June, 1998 List Price(USD): $7.99 |
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Title: Gangster by Lorenzo Carcaterra ISBN: 0345425294 Publisher: Fawcett Books Pub. Date: 30 July, 2002 List Price(USD): $7.99 |
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Title: Sleepers by Lorenzo Carcaterra ISBN: 0345404114 Publisher: Ballantine Books Pub. Date: 02 March, 1996 List Price(USD): $7.99 |
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Title: Under the Southern Sun: Stories of the Real Italy and the Americans It Created by Paul Paolicelli ISBN: 0312287658 Publisher: St. Martin's Press Pub. Date: March, 2003 List Price(USD): $24.95 |
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