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Summary: Disappointing, clumsy, boring
Review: What a disappointment this turned out to be! It reads like was written for a bad TV movie. The characters are cardboard. How unlike "The Godfather" it i
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Summary: Puzo at his best!
Review: While not a sequel to THE GODFATHER, THE LAST DON takes a look at the modern mafia. Puzo has a terrific sense of character and story. He gives great detail about even minor characters and you feel each could be the foundation for another good novel. The story will sweep you along to the impending confrontation between 2 cousins fighting for their vision of the family. I think some of the best scenes in the novel are the moments when a character faces impending death (not inflicted by the Family) and he suddenly is able to put his life into perspective
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Summary: heavy action, great reading.
Review: I've been reading "The Last Don" and I simply cannot put it down! Mario Puzo keeps the reader fascinated in his characters' lives and surroundings. It is absolutely REAL reading.
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Summary: I paid for it, so I felt obligated.
Review: Quite frankly, this book was not very good. I like fiction
that's at least somewhat intellectual and interesting, this
book was neither. Its filled with cheesey, predictable
characters that bumble through a uninspired soap opera plot
and gratuitious sex scenes. There are a lot of semi-interesting
characters, but many of them are of no use to the story at
all. Oh well, the author should make a pretty penny from the movie rights, but this book is no 'Bankable Star'.
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Summary: Disappointing. Unconvincing. Self-imitation.
Review: I've read and reread "The Godfather" and enjoyed it everytime. I'm sorry to say I found "The Last Don" weak andunconvincing. I even at times start to wonder if the Mafia lingo is real or if he's making it up. Early in the book, he says killing where the body is intended to be found are "confirmations," ones where it is intended not to be found are "communions." Then, throughout the book, over and over, whenever a killing is contemplated someone says something about whether it's to be "a communion or a confirmation." Maybe we're to assume this is Clericuzio family language, not shared by other Mafia families? Reads like Puzo is imitating Richard Condon imitating Puzo.
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Summary: The Last Don is a weak step-sister of the original Godfather
Review: The Last Don is almost a romance novel. After plowing through the book, I reread "The Godfather" which makes "The Last Don" pretty trite
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Summary: PUZO: AN AUTHOR WE CAN'T REFUSE!
Review: The masterful genius behind The Godfather and The Sicilian has once again invited us into the home of Family. The Last Don is an extraordinary look into another Family whom you can't help but feel a part of.
An immediate classic, this latest Puzo work takes us to New York, Las Vegas, Hollywood, Sicily -- the places Puzo and his fans know and love. Padrinophiles (fans of The Godfather) will feel right at home at the Clericuzio estate.
-J GEOFF MALTA, Webmaster of The Godfather Trilogy website - http://www.exit109.com/~jgeoff/godfather/ - and the "official unofficial" The Last Don website - http://www.exit109.com/~jgeoff/lastdon/
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Summary: Mario Puzo's first Mafia novel since THE GODFATHER
Review: Mario Puzo is back with a vengeance returning to the subject he knows best -- the inner workings of the Mafia. The last don is Domenico Clericuzio, a ferocious old man who is determined to secure his family's future in an era of legalized gambling, motion picture investments, and the threat of government informers. The Don is close to acheiving his vision when secrets buried in his family's past threaten to undermine his plan and spark a war between two blood cousins. Visit THE LAST DON web site at http://www.randomhouse.com/lastdon.
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Summary: LOOONG TEDIUS READ
Review: This book seemed like it took forever to read.
I bought this book because it claimed to expose the underside of movie making and Las Vegas. There were probably 5 pages all together about runnig a casino and what goes on behind the scenes in Hollywood.
The story itself was very lame. The mafia in this book was just so unbelievably omnipotent. The love interest was also entirely too perfect.
The storytelling method used in this book got old very early. A major plotpoint would happen and one important point would obviously be left out and not addressed for hundred of pages later. An example of this is when the "hero's" father was killed, and the killer was expected by the father and the father even talked to the killer but we are not let in on him for several hundred pages. While this was supposed to make for nail biting suspense I just found it annoying as hell.
Do not waste your time or money on this book, if you must watch the tv movie instead.
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Summary: I liked it.
Review: The Last Don by Mario Puzo was, in my opinion, a good book. I liked how Puzo put a lot of detail into his characters. Even the minor characters are given a background and vivid personality. While some other reviewers might consider this to be 'filler' i think it helps the book by giving you insight into their lives to help you understand them a little better. It's allowing you to know things about the minor characters that the major characters know. The only problem i had with the characters was that i think there should have been a little more attention paid to the Don. After all, the book is titled 'The Last Don'. Cross, the main character is the Don's nephew. He proves to be too soft to be a family hammer so he is to run the Xanadu Hotel in Vegas. Somewhere in the book, Cross runs into another main character in the story. Athena Aquatine. She is 'the most beautiful woman in the world' and she needs Cross' help. Dante is Cross' cousin and there is some tension between them that stems from 'The Great War.' The story wasnt exactly realistic but maybe it wasnt meant to be. And just because it's unrealistic doesnt make it a bad story. I love how there are a bunch of sub-plots and how they show you the inside story behind Hollywood, Las Vegas, corrupt politicians, bad cops and the Mafia and how they are all connected to eachother.
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