false http://photo.goodreads.com/books/1172369018m/169762.jpg 169762 8 577024 book 12 9 2006 The Astonishing Life of Octavian Nothing, Traitor to the Nation, Vol. 1: The Pox Party total:2286|5:650|4:787|3:497|2:226|1:126| 2286 8467 3921 689 1 25 false false Fri Apr 04 00:00:00 -0700 2008 Mon Mar 31 15:45:47 -0700 2008 Fri Apr 04 12:53:00 -0700 2008 more...]]> 5 6 false false Tue Dec 23 17:16:34 -0800 2008 Thu Dec 25 13:01:21 -0800 2008 Baroque Cycle, only interesting, coherent, and with a discernible plot and ch...more...]]> 5 7 false false Thu Nov 01 00:00:00 -0700 2007 Fri Nov 23 07:18:34 -0800 2007 Fri Nov 23 09:30:44 -0800 2007 more...]]> 4 3 false false Fri Aug 29 00:00:00 -0700 2008 Sun Aug 17 19:12:29 -0700 2008 Sun Sep 07 20:05:17 -0700 2008 more...]]> 3 3 false false Sun Feb 01 00:00:00 -0800 2009 Thu Aug 14 16:38:08 -0700 2008 Tue Apr 07 19:09:41 -0700 2009 Winner of the 2006 National Book Award for Young People's Literature
Boston Globe-Horn Book Award (2007)
2007 Printz Honor

I read this book in early February of this year, but have been too timid to review it.  Now, with my review of The Obama Revolution by Alan Schaffer-K...more...]]> 4 2 true false Wed May 07 17:34:26 -0700 2008 Wed Jul 30 20:04:03 -0700 2008 Okay, for those of you have read M.T. Anderson's OTHER fabulous book Feed, Octavian Nothing proves to be very interesting on a thematic comparison level. Feed is, of course, set in the distant future and depicts a very Brave New World-ish, anti-utopian warning about where we're going as a cul...more...]]> 4 5 false true Tue Jan 01 00:00:00 -0800 2008 Thu Jan 31 06:58:28 -0800 2008 Mon Feb 04 13:16:15 -0800 2008 more...]]> 5 2 false false Tue Jan 01 00:00:00 -0800 2008 Tue Jan 08 07:47:42 -0800 2008 Mon Jan 14 07:34:11 -0800 2008 more...]]> 5 2 false false Mon Jan 19 10:16:45 -0800 2009 Sun Jan 11 19:42:06 -0800 2009 Mon Jan 19 10:16:45 -0800 2009 more...]]> 1 2 false false Sat Apr 11 00:00:00 -0700 2009 Fri Mar 27 10:10:04 -0700 2009 Sat Apr 11 19:51:38 -0700 2009
I finally finished this on audiobook. I was wondering if I would have enjoyed this more if I had read it, but I don't think I would have. I think that it didn't help that this was an audiobook, and one of my complaints about the book is that it goes on and on incessantly about crap tha...more...]]> 5 3 false false Fri Dec 01 00:00:00 -0800 2006 Wed Jul 25 18:30:33 -0700 2007 Fri Aug 10 06:28:37 -0700 2007 5 3 false false Sun Jan 11 00:00:00 -0800 2009 Sun Dec 14 10:47:02 -0800 2008 Sun Jan 11 08:20:59 -0800 2009 1
“They told me of s...more...]]> 3 1 false false Wed Oct 01 00:00:00 -0700 2008 Fri Oct 24 11:32:32 -0700 2008 Fri Oct 24 11:34:11 -0700 2008
Let's see...what can I say about Octavian Nothing. It's an award-winning book--winner of the National Book Award, winner of a Printz Honor. It's historical fiction--set in the Co...more...]]> 5 1 false true Sun Nov 30 16:18:20 -0800 2008 Fri Sep 26 08:34:58 -0700 2008 Sun Nov 30 16:18:20 -0800 2008 more...]]> 5 2 false false Mon Sep 22 00:00:00 -0700 2008 Tue Sep 16 08:59:16 -0700 2008 Thu Sep 25 15:46:13 -0700 2008 2 more...]]> 4 1 false false Thu Aug 07 00:00:00 -0700 2008 Tue Aug 05 21:41:13 -0700 2008 Thu Aug 07 21:28:19 -0700 2008 more...]]> 1 2 false false Sun Apr 01 00:00:00 -0700 2007 Mon Apr 28 09:01:23 -0700 2008 Mon Apr 28 09:01:40 -0700 2008 more...]]> 5 2 false false Sat Sep 01 00:00:00 -0700 2007 Thu Oct 25 13:00:03 -0700 2007 Thu Oct 25 13:02:06 -0700 2007
I am blown away by the brilliant, lush style and more brilliant ideas and intellect of this coming-of-age and bildungsroman novel. I was delighted by the mystery of it and the growing horror, how the limited point of view of the l...more...]]> 3 1 false false Mon Oct 01 00:00:00 -0700 2007 Wed Oct 24 10:40:03 -0700 2007 Thu Oct 25 12:58:16 -0700 2007
This was the first fictional slave narrative that I've really enjoyed in quite some time. Most historical fict...more...]]> 5 1 false false Thu Feb 01 00:00:00 -0800 2007 Fri Mar 30 07:20:54 -0700 2007 Mon Apr 02 16:58:21 -0700 2007
Octavian is an African prince, who lives in Colonial Boston at the outbreak of the Revolutionary War. Dressed in silks, educated and pampered by strange scientists who care for ...more...]]> http://www.goodreads.com/book_link/follow/8?book_id=169762