I din't like the fact that puzo wrote so much about these characters, i mean what was the point? what did these characters have to do with the big picture? as i read about these guys i felt like if i was reading another book there was nothing exciting going on. and by the way who's idea was it to modify Lucy Mancini's role in GFIII? in the book she doesn't have a son from sonny, so there would have never been a Vincent Mancini, i wonder how much time was spent in trying to come up with this plot for the movie.