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Summary: A Fiction book dealing with the truth!
Review: The book I'd rate as one of the best works of fiction I've ever read. You start reading the book with a feeling of immence hatred towards the mafia.. and then.. then you discover the character of Doc Corleone. The book provides an insight into the various methods used by the mafia. It proves very informative in areas such as providing an insight into the thoughts of a Don. You often find your self.. through the book.. questioning yourself as to whether you could do all that.. and whether infact this is wrong at all. Now if a book can inspire such feelings in you .. don't you think it's worth a try?? To say mroe about the book itself, the book centers around Don Corleone one of the most respected Dons. The book deals with how a person becomes a Don, what the qualities a Don *must* have and the functioning of a Don. The author builds up a sense of aura around the Don that you find him hard not to admire. All in all, it's a worthy read, it would add to anyone's literary intellect.
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Summary: The Godfather: The Best Mafia Story Ever
Review: The name of the film, "The Godfather", is a strong felt presence in the movie industry. The book and the movie both present a new view of the world of organized crime. The story of Don Vito Corleone (played by Marlon Brando) and his family open up the eyes of many, showing that the Corleone are not a group of cold-blooded killers, but a Mafia that puts nothing in front of family. The classic tale of a father-son relationship exists best between Don Vito and his youngest son Michael (played by Al Pacino). The successor to the Don, Michael must make decisions that will forever change his future and his life, especially between himself and his girlfriend, Kay (played by Diane Keaton). Once again, the best Mafia story to ever exist is presented in a classic novel, written by the brilliant Mario Puzo and brought to the silver screen by the talented Francis Ford Coppola.The Godfather, published 1969 (Movie: 1972) The Godfather Part II (Movie: 1974) The Godfather Part III (Movie: 1990)
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Summary: Excitingly wonderful
Review: Mario Puzo's The Godfather is quite simply the best book I have ever read. In its infinite wonderment this novel far surpasses the Godfather films which the world has come to love, not only in story content, but in emotional value. The Godfather is a book you will never want to put down.
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Summary: The Godfather was a brilliant, classic novel
Review: This was, wit the execption of Les Mesesarbes, the best books I have ever read. It had a brilliant plot, well devolped, interesting characters, and, even though I saw the movie before reading the book and knew what would happen, still amazed and dazzled me with the pure power of the writing and the engrossing plot. One almost feels as if the Corleone family and the surrounding charcters were fact and the Godfather was history rather than fiction. An excellent and brilliant classic of a novel.
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Summary: godfather rules
Review: The godfather is the pefect crime novel it looks at family and crime and it is very in depth after raeding the book you look at the movie in a new light
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Summary: IF YOU DON'T LIKE THIS BOOK- YOU DON'T FIT IN THIS WORLD!
Review: THE GODFATHER was defenitely the best book I've ever read. I'm ONLY 14 and this appealed to me more than any other. I saw the movies about 5 times each( ALL 3 Of them ) and thought they were great. The book NEVER stopped AMAZING ME. IT KEPT GETTING BETTER and better. I read it in school and got in trouble for it about 10 times. I couldn't stopped reading. I also read THE LAST DON, I give that a 9.9. Can't wait to read FOOLS DIE.
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Summary: Unbelievably captivating. Simply the BEST!!!
Review: When I first began reading the book I knew directly that this is not an ordinary book. There is something in the book that makes you want to read it non-stopp. I enjoyed it very much. After I have read the book I watched all tha Godfather movies and came to like the whole story even more. I strongly recommend this book to potential readers around the world, so if you are reluctant don't hesitate to read it. You will most certainly enjoy it because I know I have. Mario Puzo has done a fantastic work by bringing such a novel into the world.
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Summary: Let's see the movie.
Review: I really liked the book at hte begining. I liked all the detail and the background information. I found it very informative. The author tells a lot of facts about the Mafia in the 1920's and about how the "Families" operated. However, it jumped around quite a bit and seemed to be dragging on. It was well written and I would be interested in reading more books by Mario Puzo. I would like to see the movie and compare the differences between the two.
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Summary: AMAZING AMAZING AMAZINGAMAZING
Review: The Godfather, was by far the greatest piece of literature that I have ever read. I read it twice in two weeks and then lent it to a friend who called me three days later saying that he was reading th last chapter and was very angry. I asked why and his replay was, "Because it's the last chapter." Mario Puzo is a master story teller and this book should be considered as the best of the 20th century.
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Summary: Brilliant
Review: THE GODFATHER is a great novel. I read it when I was 15. I went back and read it again when I was 32. I feared that--like a lot of books I re-read from when I was younger--I would be shocked that I liked something so bad. But THE GODFATHER was one of the few books I re-read after a number of years that was BETTER than I remembered it. I believe that if THE GODFATHER had been written in the 1800's, it would be considered a classic today. But since it was written in the 1960's, when "plot" and action were considered low brow conceits, it was unfairly dismissed as pulp. ONE OF THE THINGS THAT DRIVES ME NUTS IS THE STANDARD LINE THAT PUZO'S NOVEL WAS PULP CRAP THAT COPPOLA SPUN INTO GOLDEN MASTERPIECES (G.F. I & II). THIS IS UTTER CRAP. PUZO CO-WROTE THE SCREENPLAY FOR THE MOVIES (and won two Oscars, too). AND HIS NOVEL IS A MASTERPIECE THAT WAS BROUGHT EFFECTIVELY TO THE SCREEN WITH COPPOLA'S DIRECTION. (The only other time Coppola made a masterpiece movie--"Apocalypse Now"--he had a masterpiece novel to work from: Joseph Conrad's HEART OF DARKNESS.) If there was ever a brilliant talent in the Godfather equation, it is Puzo. I believe that THE GODFATHER will become a classic in the future, taught in universities, long after Don DeLillo is out of print. (How someone who wrote something as great as THE GODFATHER could write something as inanely bad as THE LAST DON I don't know. But THE GODFATHER is still a masterpiece).
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