The Godfather is an great book, Mario Puzo really did his research. Mario Puzo is realistic with the situations he depicts and at the same time gives his characters an out of this world ( for lack of a better word ) "chilly" quality. I watched the movie and was stunned at how much was left out, but at the same time surprised at how coppola managed to sustain the chilling quality of these characters. Soon I have to write a paper on it for school, and although I feel I grasped the ideas in the book, I have in no way researched it or spent any time thinking about how to get this shit written. I just need a few basic reminders, on retrospect i shouldnt have finished the book as quickly as i had. So now Im re-reading certain parts of it. If anyone has input they would like to share please post here. p.s If anyone knows how much revenue the books or movies brought in i'd appreciate you telling me because I suppose I "can" find that out for myself but im incredibly strapped for time.
hey uncle bruno - good post. I read The Godfather recently, after seeing the film. Puzo was an amazing writer. I have also read a couple of his other novels before The Godfather. One was called Dark Arena and the other, I think, was The Pilgrim. They weren't successful until The Godfather jumped to the best seller's list. I read that his publisher told him after Dark Arena, to include more mafia-related material in his next book to make it more commercial. He did and, of course, the rest is dysentry... (only joking, the guy could write :X ) post back, mate, if you wanna chat more
I like Puzo. I like mafia stuff in general. I read his book called The Family. It's about the pope and his family in the 1500s and all the corruption in the church, and it's also a love story. Very interesting.
I'll have to order that one from the library. Sounds fascinating. I like reading about mafia-related stuff too. I know people say it tends to glamorise their destructive ways, but I think the moral of the story is: Wickedness never wins. When you think of some of those little villages in Sicily where families have been wiped out by vandettas stretching back centuries. Very brutal stuff
If you like The Godfather, read my book The Finity Case. Its a modern Mafia tale. http://www.archebooks.com/BookIDX/Indexes/MystSus/Finity/FinityDesc.htm
