Books : The Godfather
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Binding: Audio Cassette
Dewey Decimal Number: 813.54
EAN: 9781882071845
Format: Abridged
ISBN: 1882071840
Label: B & B Audio
Manufacturer: B & B Audio
Number Of Items: 4
Number Of Pages: 84
Publication Date: January 29, 1997
Publisher: B & B Audio
Sales Rank: 912183
Studio: B & B Audio
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Product Description:
A modern masterpiece, The Godfather has sold millions of copies, inspired three of the finest films in recent times, and spawned a new genre in fiction. Now this landmark work has been abridged for the first time, under special arrangement with Mario Puzo.
The Godfather is the epic story of organized crime in the 1940's, but it is also the intimate story of the Corleone family, drawn together and ripped apart by its position at the core of the Mafia in America. Still shocking more than a quarter-century after it was first published, The Godfather is a modern classic, presented here in an all-new listener's edition. Read by Joe Mantegna
Amazon.com Review:
The story of Don Vito Corleone, the head of a New York Mafia family, inspired some of the most successful movies ever. It is in Mario Puzo's The Godfather that Corleone first appears. As Corleone's desperate struggle to control the Mafia underworld unfolds, so does the story of his family. The novel is full of exquisitely detailed characters who, despite leading unconventional lifestyles within a notorious crime family, experience the triumphs and failures of the human condition. Filled with the requisite valor, love, and rancor of a great epic, The Godfather is the definitive gangster novel.
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As a big fan of the Godfather movies (well, who isn't?), I was curious to read the book on which they were based. While I wouldn't go so far as to call this "hackwork", like some of the reviewers, I certainly agree that it was Francis Ford Coppola's screen adaptations that immortalized a rather run-of-the mill book.
To be sure, the book has some vivid creations (the horse's head incident, the mafia conference, the whole conceit of honorable mafiosi) but I found myself wondering if my enjoyment derived mainly from the impressions I retained from the movies, rather than from anything inherent in the book. The writing is prosaic and repetitive, unnecessarily vulgar (with long disquisitions on Sonny's penis and his goombada's vaginal malformation), and Puzo bizarrely focuses an inordinate amount of pages on boring peripheral characters like Johnny Fontane, Sonny's ex-mistress and her new boyfriend.
In addition, his characters just don't seem to have any flesh on them. Puzo provides a lot of facts about them (the Godfather's sexual rectitude, Sonny's teenage criminality, etc.) but they still seem like shadows in comparison to what we saw on screen. Marlon Brando told us more about Don Corleone with one glance than did all the backstory that Puzo wrote for the character. So, read it if you must, but know that anything of value in it was infinitely improved by being translated to film.
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My book is also missing pages 181 to 244, like the earlier reviewer, obviously this is not an isolated incident.
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The book is missing pages 181 to 244. I was really enjoying the story until I got to page 181. I am returning this copy of The Godfather for credit.
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Did the movie leave you begging for more? Well, there are the sequels, but this story is the strongest one, and the book gives you all the extras that would never fit into one film. Get the book and many of the side stories that were only touched on in the film will suddenly spread out before you in full detail. Definitely a gripping and enjoyable read.
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This book has differences with the movie, in fact Mario Puzo was kid mad with Coppola por the arrangements on the movie but it is marvelous is a must to every fan of The Godfather. You got more nervous, tense and excited with the book!
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