Chris's review of The Godfather
The Godfather by Mario Puzo
This is a book that you can't refuse....
Sorry, just had to get that in there.
This is truly a fantastic book, better than the movie, and the movie is really good. One thing that I marveled at is how closely the movie stuck to the book - word for word in places - and how well it treated the source material. Coppola gave the book the respect it deserved, and as Don Corleone would say, respect is the best thing there is.
We all know the story - it's the tale of a powerful mafia family, brought to the edge of destruction, only to rise up stronger than before. We know the characters - the brilliant patriarch, Vito, the hot-tempered Sonny, and Michael, whose destiny brought him to the heights of illicit power. We find out that Luca Brasi sleeps with the fishes, Carlo Rizzi damned himself the first time he hit his wife, and there's no worse way to wake up than with a horse's head in your bed.
But what makes the story even more entertaining is that it's not really a story abou...more
Sorry, just had to get that in there.
This is truly a fantastic book, better than the movie, and the movie is really good. One thing that I marveled at is how closely the movie stuck to the book - word for word in places - and how well it treated the source material. Coppola gave the book the respect it deserved, and as Don Corleone would say, respect is the best thing there is.
We all know the story - it's the tale of a powerful mafia family, brought to the edge of destruction, only to rise up stronger than before. We know the characters - the brilliant patriarch, Vito, the hot-tempered Sonny, and Michael, whose destiny brought him to the heights of illicit power. We find out that Luca Brasi sleeps with the fishes, Carlo Rizzi damned himself the first time he hit his wife, and there's no worse way to wake up than with a horse's head in your bed.
But what makes the story even more entertaining is that it's not really a story abou...more
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