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Re: Never read it.
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10/18/01 10:14 AM
10/18/01 10:14 AM
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Bogus Castellano
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Just read it. It's so much better than the movie. *sigh*...should've read the book first though...
"It is no secret that organized crime in America takes in over forty billion dollars a year. This is quite a profitable sum, especially when one considers that the Mafia spends very little for office supplies."
-Woody Allen
"I'm going to blame some of the people in this room. And that, I do not forgive."
-Don Vito Corleone
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Re: Never read it.
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10/18/01 10:24 AM
10/18/01 10:24 AM
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AppleOnYa
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Boy, Victorious...you sure have opened up a Pandora's Box; trust me, I've been through this. You'll get alot of recommendations to READ the book, that it has details and insight to parts & characters that you wouldn't know otherwise, and that's probably true. Not having read the book, and reading on this board about some of those 'specifics' I can tell you that you certainly wouldn't be wasting your time by reading it, but can still fully appreciate the films if you don't. So, if you love to read anyway, might as well go ahead & give it a whirl.....!!!  Apple
A wise and frugal government, which shall leave men free to regulate their own pursuits of industry and improvement, and shall not take from the mouth of labor the bread it has earned - this is the sum of good government.
- THOMAS JEFFERSON
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Re: Never read it.
#47802
10/18/01 02:00 PM
10/18/01 02:00 PM
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Don Marco
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Read it. You will learn things about the characters that you wouldn't know otherwise. Plus, there are lots of interesting parts in the book that are not included in the movie. Some are good, like the parts about the furnace repair scam with Sonny, or the handling of the Capone hit-men by Luca Brasi. Others are not so good, like the time spent on Dr. Segal and Lucy Mancini. There is another character, Nino, that is Johnny Fontaine's buddy that doesn't appear at all in the movie.
It is a great book.
"After all, we are not communists"
Christopher Moltisanti: You ever think what a coincidence it is that Lou Gehrig died of Lou Gehrig's disease?
Tony Soprano: Yeah well, when you're married, you'll understand the importance of fresh produce.
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Re: Never read it.
#47804
10/31/01 09:43 PM
10/31/01 09:43 PM
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Wiseguy
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I fully urge everyone to read the book, before seeing the movie. I was sitting around home, bored shitless and my mum threw me the book and I started reading and was completely drawn into Mario Puzo's world of the Mafia dynasty. I finnished the book in 1 week and to my absolute delight they were showing all 3 movies in a row that weekend. I was so rapt and reading the book makes all the killings in the Baptism scene make sense. Anyone that says that the book is a waste of time should not even bother coming on here and insulting my intelligence because it makes me very angry.
"Don't keep saying your innocent, don't insult my intelligence and make me angry"
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