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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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Though not out of print, this 1969 gangster potboiler here makes the leap to trade paperback. Thanks to Francis Coppola's brilliant film adaptation, this story has achieved cult status with millions of fans, who continue to read it. In addition to its larger size, this incarnation offers a new introduction and afterword. How could you refuse?
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It becomes clear after watching the movie before reading the book that The Godfather novel is better than the movie even though I rank The Godfather movies as one of the best ever. This saga about Corleone Family, gives the best definition of the mafia genre than all the written works that may be known. The character development is unrivalled, the plot is marvelous, the pace is fast, the setting is engrossing and with the complex though fascinating lessons contained within the lines, one gets something close to a catechism. I think that is why Francis Ford Coppola did not have to alter much in the story to produce the movies.
"Behind every great fortune, there is a crime," Wrote the French novelist Balzac. This quote is the forerunner to The Godfather. It takes a short while into the novel to realize that The Godfather transcends being just a novel. Many readers have confessed that it altered their perception of life after reading it. It certainly is a classic with the most influential and deep-cutting influence on the minds of its readers. This novel presents us with the uncommon code and workings of the Mafia. It also explores the lives of the people who are directly or indirectly involved in it. Throughout the novel, one is forced to view Don Corleone as a very good bad man.
Mario Puzo's The Godfather is rich with wide-ranging characters as well. There is Don Corleone's first son-the short-tempered Sonny, Fredo the weak-minded second son, Michael the reluctant son with his father's steel-mindedness who ends up to save the family and Connie the baby sister who follows her impulses all the time. Then there is Amerigo Bonasera the dreary undertaker, the wily Genco, the ruthless capo-regimes, the psychopathic but faithful Luca, the cool-headed and loyal adopted Corleone son Tom Hagen, the women who married into the family and come to accept the reality of their new worlds, loving characters that are detestable to the real world. In the end, this novel revolves around Don Vito Corleone and his son, Michael, who like a reluctant disciple finally takes over as the head of the Corleone family.
You will not be happy when you read the last page because you will be wish for more about the lives of the Corleones and their fantastic world. For sure the character of the Don will last long in your mind, because beyond being violent, Don Corleone is portrayed as a kind, considerate, strong, reliable and reasonable, man. In his person is to be found the ideal father, husband, friend, Godfather, son, leader and business man. Fame, power, wealth and common place idealism make this book the great story it has been over the past three decades.
DISCIPLES OF FORTUNE is another novel with ingenious characters and an inspiring hero.
"Behind every great fortune, there is a crime," Wrote the French novelist Balzac. This quote is the forerunner to The Godfather. It takes a short while into the novel to realize that The Godfather transcends being just a novel. Many readers have confessed that it altered their perception of life after reading it. It certainly is a classic with the most influential and deep-cutting influence on the minds of its readers. This novel presents us with the uncommon code and workings of the Mafia. It also explores the lives of the people who are directly or indirectly involved in it. Throughout the novel, one is forced to view Don Corleone as a very good bad man.
Mario Puzo's The Godfather is rich with wide-ranging characters as well. There is Don Corleone's first son-the short-tempered Sonny, Fredo the weak-minded second son, Michael the reluctant son with his father's steel-mindedness who ends up to save the family and Connie the baby sister who follows her impulses all the time. Then there is Amerigo Bonasera the dreary undertaker, the wily Genco, the ruthless capo-regimes, the psychopathic but faithful Luca, the cool-headed and loyal adopted Corleone son Tom Hagen, the women who married into the family and come to accept the reality of their new worlds, loving characters that are detestable to the real world. In the end, this novel revolves around Don Vito Corleone and his son, Michael, who like a reluctant disciple finally takes over as the head of the Corleone family.
You will not be happy when you read the last page because you will be wish for more about the lives of the Corleones and their fantastic world. For sure the character of the Don will last long in your mind, because beyond being violent, Don Corleone is portrayed as a kind, considerate, strong, reliable and reasonable, man. In his person is to be found the ideal father, husband, friend, Godfather, son, leader and business man. Fame, power, wealth and common place idealism make this book the great story it has been over the past three decades.
DISCIPLES OF FORTUNE is another novel with ingenious characters and an inspiring hero.
Also recommended: THE USURPER AND OTHERS, THE UNION MOUJIK
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This is a totally engrossing novel centering on the exploits of a fictional family of gangsters, their violent lives and deaths. Puzo tells a complex story brimming over with interesting characters, and while his narrative is sometimes overly sketchy, it is always riveting. The real crime committed in my version (the 30th anniversary mass market paperback) is the horrendous proofreading. Typos abound, most of them glaring and easily corrected with even the most rudimentary spell checking. Such things pull me out of a story quickly, and it's a testament to Puzo's power as a storyteller that I still found myself enjoying the story as much as I did.
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Mario Puzo, an otherwise quite forgettable author, has penned in "The Godfather" not only the greatest crime novel of the 20th century, but in reality, one of the greatest novels of any genre in the 20th century.
The action opens quickly, there is good character development, excellent background material, triumph, tragedy, and love. Most of all, the novel demonstrates a type of "Old Testament" system of honor totally unknown any longer in modern society.
The novel demonstrates that, even among the underworld of society, there exist many of the same problems that the rest of us deal with: family difficulties, desire for freedom, security (or lack thereof) and religious crises.
An outstanding read, well made into a series of good movies.
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Sehr gutes Buch: spannend, fesselnd, einmalig!
Ich habe mir die englische Ausgabe von Mario Puzo's "The Godfather" gekauft, da ich ein Buch für ein Referat im Englisch Leistungskurs benötigte. Lesen Sie weiter...
Vor 21 Monaten von Florian R. veröffentlicht
echt gutes buch nur bisschen mager verarbeitet
Liest sich echt geil, würde auch 6 sterne verteilen, aber qualitativ finde ich es ein bisschen zu dünn ;(, aber sonst top buch
Veröffentlicht am 12. Januar 2010 von josefstudiert
Einmaliges Gefühl
Über das Buch The godfather kann man viel sagen aber ich fasse es mal kurz.Meiner Meinung nach hat dieses Buch einen wirklich einmaligen Wiedererkennungswert und macht einfach... Lesen Sie weiter...
Veröffentlicht am 5. Mai 2009 von Marlis Schmagold
Ein wirklicher Klassiker
Dieses Buch verdient die Bezeichnung "Klassiker". Flüssig zu lesen, glaubhafte Handlung, glaubhafte Charaktere... Lesen Sie weiter...
Veröffentlicht am 2. Mai 2006 von Daniel Fischer
My all-time-favorite
I had always wanted to read this greatest of all mafia tales, but I got around to doing so only at the age of 31 - which I'm quite glad about now. Lesen Sie weiter...
Veröffentlicht am 24. Februar 2003 von Manuelita
NewYork Mafia pur
Ein geniales Werk um in die korrupte und brutale Welt der Mafia einzutauchen. Mario Puzo beschreibt hervorragend das auf und ab einer der mächtigesten Familien Clans von... Lesen Sie weiter...
Veröffentlicht am 27. August 2002 von Daniel Flück
Dramatic dialog, vivid imagery make for good summer reading!
Great literature this aint. But Mario Puzo's The Godfather is a lot of fun. The imagery alone is breathtaking - an injured mobster in a white suit running in the streets, holding... Lesen Sie weiter...
Veröffentlicht am 21. Juli 2000 von Carmen Hudson
Wonderful
If you haven't seen the Godfather I or II then read this. If you have then you won't find much discrepenacy. Lesen Sie weiter...
Veröffentlicht am 16. Juli 2000 von Justin Hall
amazing how bad this book is. Proves good movies=bad books
Here's the review of the book if it weren't a cultural icon - cheesy 70s mafia book banking on the overall popularity of mob figures and the mystique of the mafia in particular. Lesen Sie weiter...
Veröffentlicht am 19. Juni 2000 von Tim Lieder
The Great American (Crime) Family
Mario Puzo's The Godfather is one of the greatest novels I have ever read. The story of a "benevolent king" who hands his "kingdom" over to his youngest son, is... Lesen Sie weiter...
Veröffentlicht am 8. Juni 2000 von Paul Banuski
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