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Summary: Six stars!
Review: What can I say? All of my words will not be able to tell the story of this wonderful gangster book. This book sealed my still-living interest in the mafia. I have always loved the mafia and how it worked. This book explained it to a T. Puzo's complex plot weaved with sinister bargaining make this a must read. I am still at a loss of words. Definitely one the the top ten books I have ever read.
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Summary: A gripping novel from beginning to end
Review: A great world of mafia and mafia created suspense. This is sure to give you love, family and passionate violence. You will want to curl up somewhere and read this from beginning to end and still want more.
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Summary: Tremendous story telling
Review: I picked up this book from a friend's bookcase because I was bored. Having already seen the movie, I thought this would just pass away the time. It stole time, actually. I couldn't stop reading, becoming so engrossed in the plot, storytelling and characters despite already knowing the ending. Mario Puzo's "The Godfather" is truly a masterpiece. There is no flowery prose, no extra detail to make the scenes more attractive: this is story telling at its leanest and best. The characters are drawn beautifully, lovingly, honestly: so much so that you can steeped into the Corleone family and live through each character. This book is testament of how much a piece of literature can entertain. While the movie was spectacular, it doesn't stray from the book (a miracle that Hollywood actually kept the story, almost exactly.) Still, the book is even better because there's more insight into each character. Imagine my disappointment when, after finishing this book, I found out there isn't a Part II or Part III. Those were fabrications of Hollywood. I almost cried!
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Summary: The Best of All Time
Review: This novel will be the yardstick for measuring other offerings for years to come but I can't see anything else even coming close.
Mario Puzo grants the reader intimacy with his characters, they become our personal friends. Don't be concerned that they live outside the law and they sometimes kill people. The hypnotic influence of this author makes you wish that Vito Corleone was your Godfather and protector.
I seldom read a book more than once, but this one keeps coming back to me. I've read it three times and I know that there will be more.
It's the story of a family more than a mob saga. It's about one mans personal view of the difference between right and wrong and his passion for enforcing those values. The Corleone family makes its money from the gambling business, a "victimless" crime. They refuse to enter the drug trade and that makes them righteous and noble. For his stand, the patriarch almost pays with his life and that justifies any retribution that he metes out. This book is a masterpiece.
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Summary: Very good read...
Review: Though Puzo is better known for helping create the Godfather movies, his book that inspired the movies is a fabulous one and lays the foundations that lead to the success of the movies.
The book depicts the life of Mafia lord Vito Corleone and those of his family and close associates. His struggles to maintain his position of power and ensure a good life for his family is a motif that seems unconventional given Corleone's position, but it ends up making its point of the universalness of all man.
Interestingly, there is a whole storyline of this book that the movies cut out, which I personally found very fun and informative.
Highly reccomended.
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Summary: My Favorite Book
Review: I picked this book up for someone else and, bored, decided to check out the first page to see what it was like. The first page got me hooked. The expansive, even soap oprah like quality of the book is addictive. The reader can't wait to get to the end to find out what happens, but at the same time doesn't want it to end. Puzo sets up the Corleone family wonderfully, and Micheal's predicament, torn between his disgust for what his family does, and his loyalty to it in times of distress. Filled with twists and turns this book is unforgetable. I even found this to be better than the Godfather movie. That film was great, but it couldn't hold all aspects of the story this book tells. This film sent me racing watch the film version, its' sequels, and the book sequel, The Sicillian. This is certainly a must read.
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Summary: How things work
Review: How do you rate a classic like The Godfather??? And how can you realistically award it less than five stars? Well, paradoxically the three-installment movie is better than the book, if you are looking for pure entertainment. However, if you are looking for insight into how the real world works, _The Godfather_ is a manual that can serve as a base from which you can build additional knowledge. Use it as a spring-board into Holden's _Powerbase Selling_, for example. Or juxtapose it with _The Bible_ and learn that nothing has ever changed, that Human Nature is essentially evil and pragmatic -- and always has been. Or contrast it with Niccolo Machiavelli's _Discourses_ and _The Prince_. You won't learn how to become successful and wealthy overnight. But you probably will learn why you already aren't and never will be (thank God!). Home truths all. Thoroughly unpleasant to the taste, yet the real thing.
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Summary: A classic . . .
Review: The Godfather . . . What a wonderful book and movie! The book is hard to put down. The characters become so real and vivid in the book. Vito Corleone, the Godfather, and his family and "business" associates are discussed in detail in this book. How the Mafia was started as well as how the Corleone family itself was established is included in this book. The detail of the appearance of each person is amazing. Reading the book is more entertaining than watching the movie. The book goes into alot more detail than the movie does and the book shows how Vito Corleone got his start in the Mafia business. I hope everyone that has seen the movie will read the book. There is more detail and more material than could ever be included in the movie. This is honestly one of the best books I have ever read. Every time I read it the more entranced I become with the secret world of the Mafia.
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Summary: The Civil side of the Mafia
Review: This book caught my eye; I was interested in how the book related to the movie. I found the book to be a lot more informational, so i go back sometimes and see what the movie producers left out. But this book kept me on the edge of my seat up until the end. The Mafia, no matter which type it is, is always an interesting thing. This book made the mafia look good and civil rather than any other movies or stories . I think the characters were matched up nicely with the movie. This book gave me more vocabulary; by reading this book I picked up on a couple of words. In this novel you can learn a lot more about the characters than you would in the movie, because there is an extended amount of detail on each one.
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Summary: The Godfather is awesome
Review: Mario Puzo's Godfather is a reality based fiction about a big time mob family in New York City. The Godfather is about the struggles a crime family has with everything from marriage to murder. The father of the family is a notorious crime lord who made his way up starting as an immigrant from Sicily trying to become successful for his family. Widely respected by his peers in crime throughout the nation for his great reasoning, he was named the Godfather by many as a sign of respect. This book was very interesting in the way it intertwined all the different characters in the novel and the plot thickened as you turned each page. I loved how Puzo delved into a society that I knew very little about and delved into each strand of the plot thoroughly. This book suggests that if a man wants to he can become his own king, but many troubles come with this fraudulent power. Finally, the Godfather gave me an escape from the dull books in school and gave me an awesome experience filled with great descriptions and storyline. Overall, I think this is one of the best books I have ever read and I recommend it to anybody who loves action and suspense.
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