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Dare I say it's almost 'fun' to read this incredible piece of material. Completely familiar with the movie, and having never read this novel before, it was very interesting in comparing the two. For whatever reason, I do not associate the movie actors with the book characters like I always seem to do with other made-into-movie books, and I'm not too sure why. In the end, however, it becomes another one of those books that one wishes they had read first before seeing the movie (even as excellent as the movie was).
Discovered the book while reading about the movie on IMDB and liked it even more, which I didn't think possible. Much more depth and nuance, a great history of New York, La Cosa Nostra, Sicily and, of course, an engrossing tale of the Corleone clan. Highly recommended.
There is nothing that I can say, that will even mean anythig close to what this book is. Speachless
It was great to get so much more depth to the characters. I've seen the film The Godfather countless times but until recently never read the book. I picked it up on a whim and found it thoroughly engrossing. It's very well written too and there's never a dull moment. Worthwhile for anyone whether they've seen the film or not.
The book is loaded with extra details about secondary characters that the film only establishes briefly. This, as most of the rest of the novel, are copied pretty verbatim for the film. (although, admittedly since I have seen the film so many times. BUT. Supposedly, Puzo and Coppola did get together and work a good deal on the screenplay, but also supposedly Puzi was unhappy with the studio regime and in the end got shafted anyway.
who knows. Maybe this happened in the transcription. I assume most of us have seen the film, so here's what I think.As it goes in Hollywood, the writer often gets shafted from participating in the "for the screen" version of the story. For example, the girl that Sonny is cheating with.
perhaps its been embedded in my system to get used to the pacing of the film)Other noteworthy changes are some of the backstory that we see in Godfather Part II. but got the chance to for the sequel.I'm not sure if it is the version I have or if it was in the original text, but there are many grammatical errors, spelling mistakes, and seemingly even words missing entirely throughout the novel. That being said, I think the screen translation is far better than the book.First of all, most noticeably is the pacing of the film compared to the book. The second bodyguard after Paulie leaves the picture, Tattaligia, etc. Who knows, but it doesn't distract too much.
I often enjoy reading books that I've already seen the movie of to find out how the book was adapted into a screenplay. are in this book. When the Don is a youngster living up in NYC and he assassinates the Black Hand. It's interesting that Coppola decided (rightly) not to use some of the flashbacks of the novel. The book gets more highly involved with the move to Vegas by the family and how they set up their operations in the west. It's just very noticeable. He said, she said.
The book is an incredibly easy read as well. Lots of these details are quite interesting, but rather destroys the pacing of the book. The book could do well without these facts, as they do not really relate to the meat of the story. maybe Puzo wasn't a good writer. No fancy words you'll have to look up in the dictionary.
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