Khadaji's Whatcha Readin' thread -- April 2018 Edition

[LVBoPeep]

@nachtmusick

If you can, please help a guy out with his next book purchase:

The Godfather

Like everybody else, I think that The Godfather is one of the best movies ever. I have often thought that the novel by Mario Puzo would make a fantastic read. When I mentioned this to one of my friends who has read it, she told me that it wasn’t a very good book. Was she right?

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If any of you have read either of these books, please let me know what you thought.

Thanks,

-A Doper Tired of Wasting Money on Bad Books

I thought the book was great fun- maybe not a masterpiece but enjoyable - I’ve re-read it several times. The Lucy story is somewhat cringeworthy but I didn’t mind it that much.

[Siam_Sam]

@nachtmusick

If you can, please help a guy out with his next book purchase:

The Godfather

Like everybody else, I think that The Godfather is one of the best movies ever. I have often thought that the novel by Mario Puzo would make a fantastic read. When I mentioned this to one of my friends who has read it, she told me that it wasn’t a very good book. Was she right?

I thought it was a fantastic book. But I read it as a teenager, so I’m not sure how much I would like it now as a first read.

[DZedNConfused]

New Thread: Well April is gone, time for May flowers

[Elendil_s_Heir]

I listened to The Godfather as an audiobook recently; it was my first time “reading” the book. Puzo is great at world-building and describing the shifting alliances and betrayals among the Mafiosi, but his dialogue and characterization is sometimes surprisingly clumsy. Still worth a read, I’d say.