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Summary: Interesting for history of Cleveland
Review: If you want to know how the streets run in Cleveland then read this book. You get the history of the mob and how criminals work together to get ill gain.
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Summary: Great book about a struggle for power and domination
Review: Incredible book that I couldn't put down. It's a to-the-point, factual accounting of a grand power struggle amongst powerful people with diverse personalities. As such, literary embellishments and a story-telling structure would be inappropriate. No reason to ding this book for those reasons.
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Summary: An accurate, well written account of a real life story!
Review: Read this from cover to cover in two evenings. It helps some if you were in Cleveland during the 70's, but is paced right and full of descriptions so you can know all the characters even if you're from out of town I was on the first-in responding fire crew when they blew up Danny and I testified at the first trial. I learned stuff I never even knew from this book and I was there! Well done Rick!!!!!!!!!!!
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Summary: A terrific story needs better telling
Review: The rise of Danny Greene and his battle with the Cleveland mafia makes for an interesting tale. As a relative newcomer to northeastern Ohio, I found the book to be a useful history lesson. However, the writing lacks polish. Porrello could use a good editor, and was ill-served by his publisher who allowed so many spelling and punctuation errors to go to print. It's also hard to keep track of the large number of players mentioned in the book, and sometimes their relation to events at hand is unclear, at best. Still, if you like to read about wise guys, it's a book worth picking up.
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Summary: Get me Rewrite
Review: The story of Danny Greene is an interesting one, but this book is terrible. Poorly written, lacking any kind of story-telling ability. There are great books in the true-crime mobster genre ("The Westies" by T.J. English; "Wiseguy" by Nicholas Pileggi; "Donnie Brasco" by Joe Pistone) but this is defintiely not one of them. Unless you're from Cleveland and have a vested interest in the subject, "forget about it."
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Summary: A Difficult Read
Review: The story of the Cleveland mafia is very interesting, but this book is not. I wonder what someone like Jerry Capeci could have done with this material.
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Summary: Horrendous Writing
Review: The writing in this book is so terrible that I could barely finish it. How did this guy get published? And where was his editor? The writing itself is pedestrian, but I could have lived with that. The endless grammatical and spelling errors drove me crazy. One of the worst examples: "He was a loaner" (meaning that he liked to be alone) And the author was a top cop! Shouldn't a top cop know how to write better than this?
Far worse was the fact that the author threw major facts at me with absolutely no set up. He talked matter-of-factly about Greene's work as an FBI informant... before telling me that he was an informant. The FBI nugget came completely out of nowhere. The author does that all the way through the book. He wrote that the trial for Green's murder was the longest criminal trial in the county's history...and never actually told me what happened during its course. In one paragraph he mentioned the incredible length of the trial; a couple of paragraphs later he gave the verdicts. No behind-the-scenes info. The author jumped around so much and skipped over such glaringly important information that I felt like I was reading a book written by some grade school kid. It was simply appalling. There's a fascinating story to be told about Danny Greene and the Cleveland Mafia. Unfortunately, "To Kill The Irishman" isn't it. Please -- if there are any talented writers out there, who actually understand English grammar, construction, and spelling, write a good book about Danny and the Cleveland mob!
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Summary: Excellent reading material for Mafioso buffs.
Review: This is excellent reading for anyone living in Cleveland, or anyone wanting to know about Mafioso and labor-related crime.
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Summary: Fearless racketeer Danny Greene and his war with the Mafia
Review: TO KILL THE IRISHMAN is a true crime story of Danny Greene, a fiercely proud and fearless Irish-American gangster who fought the Mafia for control of the rackets. After numerous bungled attempts, the brazen Celtic mobster was murdered with a mob bomb. Danny's murder brought about the development of several high-ranking Mafia turncoats including Jimmy "The Weasel" Fratianno and Angelo "Big Ange" Lonardo, whose testimony helped to cripple La Cosa Nostra families in Los Angeles, Cleveland, Kansas City, Youngstown, Pittsburgh and Milwaukee. Fratianno and Lonardo were predecessors to more recent, powerful L.C.N. turncoats like Sammy "the Bull" Gravano. Read about figures like the notorious Shondor Birns and feared Mafia enforcer Eugene "the Animal" Ciasullo, and their roles in the battles with the Irishman. Over fifty photos including modern La Cosa Nostra figures like Joe "Loose" Iacobacci and Lenny Strollo. MOVIE! RIGHTS FOR TO KILL THE IRISHMAN HAVE BEEN SOLD TO DUNDEE ENTERTAINMENT OF HOLLYWOOD, CA.
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Summary: Infectious
Review: WOW~! This book was great. I read it in 2 days and had trouble putting it down. The writer is not great, but the overall story is. I would def. recommend this for OC fans and esp. those looking to explore the Irish side of the drama.
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