The Godfather - Mario Puzo Reviews

This is a fantastic book and one of the very few books tat I have read more than once. for those that do not know the plot of the Godfather from either the book or the film, it is set around the mafia in New York and really concerns the changeover of power from one generation to another within a family. This book is incredibly thick ...  Read the complete review

What a book! Whilst the film is often given rave reviews, the book is usually shunned to a side, with people unaware of Puzo's genius. The literary verve shown in the writing, with an ending so unexpected, characters so vivid and just the right amount of gore, make it in my opinion, a book that ought to be made a set text in schools around the ...  Read the complete review

Mario Puzo's The Godfather was lovingly brought to the screen by Francis Ford Coppola but devotees of the movies would do well to read the novel which started it all. For starters it's beautifully written, and is obviously a labour of love. Secondly, it allows you to gain a much deeper insight into the characters than the movie, brilliant though ...  Read the complete review

I don't really rate Mario Puzo as an author - in fact I would go as far as to say he has only ever really written two good books. This just happens to be one of them... and is probably his most famous. It spawned one of the biggest Gangster movies in the history of the big screen, as well as two sequels, and serves as a root for all of the Mafia ...  Read the complete review

Traditionally it was the Hollywood movie that would attract me to a novel. I would first reconcile with the film and then if I sought further enlightenment, might go on to read the novel. But with The Godfather this was different and it became apparent that the representation that is a film is just how one person interpreted the book. In this ...  Read the complete review

Mario Puzo's The Godfather - who in this world has not heard of this magnificent book? It has it all, in my opinion, feeling, action, romance, a deep horrific undertone (if you like that sort of thing) and strong family values - of a sort. The Plot: --------- You've probably all seen the film so know the outline to ...  Read the complete review

If you asked someone to name a gangster film, nine times out of ten the answer would be "The Godfather”. If you said the same about a book then you'd probably get a similar response, this book, and the film that spanned from it, were so outstandingly popular that a youth of today would still have the title fixed in their mentality ...  Read the complete review

Mario Puzo’s book is often overlooked due to the incredible success of the film adaptations. In the local Waterstones store there was money off all film related paperbacks so I managed to pick up this book for £4.99. It has been a number of years since I saw any of the Godfather movies and my memories of the story were sketchy at ...  Read the complete review

The most renowned gangster in I know of is Michael Corleone, closely followed by his father Vito. I imagine real-life master criminals aspiring to achieve the same fame, fortune and notoriety as the Corleone family, only to realise Mario Puzo does in fact write fiction! “The Godfather” is a story which spans ...  Read the complete review

If you looked up Gangster in a dictionary, just below Al Capone you would find Mario Puzo's 'Godfather'. After watching the film and wanting more murder, revenge and criminal mastermind you find it from the book.The book is about 400 pages, yet so detailed that you are easily able to create the dark cigar scented atmosphere of the ...  Read the complete review

The book that started the legacy. One man alone developed the story that was to be one of the most successful stories in cinema history. While The Godfather Part I is in my opinion by far the best part of the trilogy, the book eclipses even that. There are a countless number of reasons why. One of the greatest features of this book is ...  Read the complete review