*******SPOILER WARNING*********

Did you see it coming? I didn't and I was so attached to Giuliano that I feld I'd been clubbed over the head. First Puzo sells me on reading a book about Giuliano rather than Michael Corleone, as I mentioned before; then I'm all sucked into Giuliano's character, then BAMMMMM!

When I read that Giuliano realized that Pisciotta was levelling his machine pistol at him, I was stunned! And then the description of the thoughts in Giuliano's dieing mind where so real.

The old Don (name?) wins anyway. And Turi's Testament ends up in the hands of Don Corleone, who behaves like the old Don and hangs onto it for leverage in some unmentioned future negotiation. So really the Cardinal and the premier get off scott free, too. Then Aspinu is killed in prison, so even he, like Turi, faded to black.

The descripton Puzo gives at the end of the book about the 10's of thousands of young men who left Sicily following the death of Turi. I guess I was in touch with their feeling thanks to Puzo, because I felt like Turi and his testament ended up as just another parlor game for the old Don.