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Summary: A Novel That You Can't Refuse...to read!
Review: The Godfather, written by Mario Puzo, is a masterpeice of modern literature. A wonderful classic even on paperback. After reading the story, I wish i bought the Hardback edition. Puzo's descriptive style of incedents in his story makes the audience visualize for themselves just how a family of crime thinks and acts. The story goes in depth of the individual stories of his legendary characters. If you thought the movie was a great work of art, the novel enhances your understandings of Puzo's vision. A Must Have For All Readers.
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Summary: The Godfather was a very thought provoking book.
Review: I read three books recently, two were by Louis LaAmour an the third was by Mario Puzo. The books by Louis LaAmour were, Heller With A Gun and Man From The Broken Hills. The Godfather was the book by Mario Puzo.At first thought, it doesn't seem like the two authors would have much in common. LaAmour writes western and Puzo's book is about the Mafia. This was not the case, the two authors actually had a lot of things in common. Although only the stories by LaAmour took place in the same time period, all three books portrayed one common theme. Power. Who has it and how to obtain it. In Man from the broken hills, powerful cattle ranches are fighting over a range and stolen cattle. In the Godfather, Powerful families are fighting for power of the Mafia underworld in the United States. In the books by LaAmour, he tunes in on about four characters and there is one hero. Puzo prefers to show all of his characters. LaAmour made his charaters seem almost in human, they could do wrong. Puzo on the otherhand, made his characters very life like. As I said before, the stories were about power and the ways that men obtain it. In the old west, a man won his battle when he killed his enemy, the same was true with the Mafia, they won when the opponent was dead. The only difference is the who did the killings. The guys in the west would do it themselves and the Mafia bosses would have their employees do it. The similarity is that both kinds of executions would be done in public where peole would see and hear about them. This was a display of power. Both writers have a problem getting to the point, they beat around the bush until you get bored, then BAM! they wake you up with a sudden twist. They both also have a habit of leaving a charater for awhile and making you wonder what happens to that person. The books by LaAmour are shorter than that of Puzo, but they do not suffer. LaAmour didn't spend the time on side stories like Puzo did, if had, they would have equal length. Both authors posess the ability to attract your attention and for the most part keep it. They are both Worthwhile authors to read.
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Summary: if you liked the movie,you'll love the book
Review: I think it's not possible to have a precise idea of what mafia is before reading this book.Every chapter is a small piece of a big puzzle which shows you a world completely different from how you think. Great.
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Summary: Don't miss the irony in The Godfather
Review: Undoubtedly one of the great books of all time, this story of a Mafia family has more depth and subtlety than is often realized. Don't miss the ironies that Puzo cleverly works in so smoothly that they threaten to pass without notice. The biggest irony? No, the Godfather of the title is NOT Don Vito Corleone, the head of the Mafia family at the outset of the book (the Marlon Brando character in the movie). But, yes, the book is about a Mafia Godfather. In fact, it's about the making of one.
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Summary: There's a Godfather in all of us..
Review: This book gives more than the story, it gives you an insight in yourself , an insight in the power of a human.Yes the man himself was not godly or priestly but there was a power in my. The name of the book itself gives him a position but Puzo's potrayal if fantastic, the character he develops lives up to its image, A bad man we all will like to be, a devil which we all would have respected and a don we all would have worshipped and wished our children be the same. It's highly contradictory that a mafia don is praised to no ends, but the characterisation is superb. The author has the unique ability of presenting the facts in such a way that i gives it a sense of superiority, no wonder this book is an all time bestseller. It's the power in that human being which is highlighted, the aura or the halo of the man's mental strength is clearly felt and all this because of the author's excellent potrayal and a wonderful capacity to give his thoughts a form. If you've not read this book i suggest you do it now, or you'll never know the godfather in you. Believe me this book can change your life, your approach towards it will undergo a transformation and will restore the strength with which you were born and above all it will help you think in times of danger. Get the spirit of Godfather in you with the help of this book.
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Summary: EXCELLENT
Review: I have always heard about this book/movie, but have never taken the time to read/watch it. When I finished reading it I was sad to see it end, although what an ending. This book is a must-read. I'll probably even read it again (so far I've only found this book and Crime and Punishment really worth reading more than once). My next step is to see the movie but I don't see how it can compare to the book. If there were more stars I would give them all!
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Summary: One of the Classics of Modern Fiction!
Review: The Godfather is by far a classic in modern literature. Mario Puza does a superb job in portraying the Mafia underworld during the forties! A must read for anyone who is entrigued by the Mob.
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Summary: The greatest book ever written, HANDS DOWN !
Review: Like others I saw the movie before I read the book. I was amazed how much they left out of the movie. Don't get me wrong, the movie is one of the greats. But, the book goes into the backround of characters who have small parts in the movie. Some of the most anxiety filled moments in history are found in this masterpiece. The final chapters have staggering realism. With The Corleone Family extremely weak, the new Don, Michael, with one master swipe of his hand, returns HIS family to supremacy. A must read for anyone who....( fill in the blank ). IT'S THAT GOOD!
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Summary: Mario Mario Mia!
Review: Hey hey! This was a good book. I was never really a fan of the films but I was a bit to young then. I guess I've grown up coz I couldn't put this one down.
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Summary: The BEST
Review: The book that instead of blaming "mafia" for all the evil they do, actually shows the reader why do they do it. Plus, incredible personality portrait. It is more psychological than criminal reading.
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