Does he talk in detail about Spero? Always wanted to know more about him.

Shit I wish I had a kindle I would like to read about him and bath ave. Ain't he in jail. Lots guys writing books in jail nowadays. Nothing but time. I'm curious to about spero. But if he's Anthony's boy why he never get his button but the other bath ave kid did. about to fly out to Cali wish I had gotten the new rizzuto book but got that shit alive book I repete don't by it. Skim it at Barnes it stupid. Like alite was a bitter lover. Big boy shere some details on the Anthony book.

calco was a crack head nut ..he was with spero,devious guy.. very jealous of his child hood friends..he knew paulie would get made before him..no problem for calico to get him out of the way.

I think Mafia Prince was really good.

I read some preview pages of Anthony's Boy and I gotta say, calling it ridiculous would be too much of an understatement. It is horribly written, which I guess would be forgivable if he'd actually have some interesting material to say and would stop exaggerating every single thing.
Also he often refers to his incident is Florida as "the night of the Calzone" I shit you not, as if he's talking about "the Second Coming" or the "Judgement Day." I know it's probably meant to be humorous, but it's not.

If I had an online account and some spare change lying around maybe I'd pay up to about 2.5$, but 4$ seems like a ripoff for this. Then again, this is just my opinion based on the preview Amazon lets you see... maybe it does get better, I have no idea.

I'm telling all who reads this blog or is this a messengening board that's for the Internet's to resolve. But I know fish tacos are just not good. But the best 2 books on white guy crime is mafia prince and lil Al's book by capeci. They should ba e wrote the book al and leonetti 15 years ago. But both books good. Why the fuck they put coleslaw in every sandwich o er here gross. Cabbage sucks. And I'm Irish fuck Cali cagage

East coast west coast time weird here pti and afth on early. They don't got Canadian club. Over her. My young girl likes fireball weak. Gg readers stop eating so much carbs and steal a. MW. Joke.us open 2021 Torrey pines. The waters freezing but masshole will be swimming with the surfers in the morning.

Just grabbed paddy whacked from the library. How good was this cause it looks like it's gonna be a good read.

Just ordered "Mob City" about a previously unkown skirmish between the Chicago and New York families in 1930s Reno. Should be interesting!

Read Mafia and the Machine and Mobsters in Our Midst, two KC books and recommend them both.

Madonna...i have some reading to catch up. Thaks for all the references.

I am about half way through Mob Boss, this Al D'Arco story covers alot of ground and views of the life from a solid position.

Good book, better than most.

Just found out Joe Bonanno tried to get back in to la cosa nostra through a Denver family member. so

Going to take a look at Rocky Mountain Mafia and Smaldone, which I amazoned a few weeks back. These worth reading?

Also Mob City never came...

Also a warning to all. dont get quiet don. its bad

Quiet don is about Russell Buffalino I believe. I was gonna get it. But if more people give same review I will probably pass

I mean the reason I buy mob books is for the extra information you find that you can't find just from a google search you know? I heard you paint houses provided a lot more info. The only new thing I learned from quiet don was the names of Russell's mistresses but it lacked in mob info.

Is Before Bruno worth a read?

I was interested in I heard you paint houses. I think I'm gonna order that. Haven't read before Bruno yet.

I just bought Gotti's Rules . I wanna know how is it ?

I read the Philip Carlo book on Pitera. It was Ok. But after learning more about Carlo and his BS it tainted my view of that book I think and made it hard to believe anything that was written.

I thought leonetti's was one of the best I read along with the one written about the rizzuto family called business or blood, it was also very good in my opinion and worth reading. Very long but I finished it in 2 evenings.

The quiet don I never finished. So slow and boring and convoluted and focused more on material that was not of interest or about the boss himself.

DiDinato's book I read and it was Ok. I'd give it about a 6.5 out of ten. Hard to know what to believe. But it gives insight into the life of an average made guy in the 90's - 2000's. And it was not so boring or uninteresting you could not read it , like the quiet don was.

Leonetti's book is without question a great read.Although,in my opinion he is full of shit.I believe Nicky "Crow" and Delgiorno versions that say Leonetti was very aggressively pushing for Salvie Testa's killing.And I don't believe that he started having second thoughts about his life before they were arrested.I believe he saw a way out and used it after the fact.I also like the "Crows" book as well.

I would trust Caramandi & Del Giorno's accounts before I would trust Leonetti.

Leonetti would f*ing rat as soon as he faced any significant sentence.

Absolutely,Moe

just read a great book on the tampa mafia circa 1970s,the last lonely eagle its about the assassination of dick cloud who was an ex tampa police officer. one of the best books I ever read,

Did what I said I wouldn't got gotti Jr's book. I wish I could just start a thread on it but I don't have a clue. So I start with john really makes jimmy brown out to be a badass. Sammy said jimmy brown was a pussy that would answer to a black guy. Jr says after his father gets life its brown who has the clout. And wants to whack out Sammy old crew but Jr gets him to pass. Says the mafia cops killed bobby b. Casso killed testa to cut off amuso power and amuso found out. Not to much about alive but he did chase him out of queens and alite is a super liar and so is that agent. Book should be call gotti mistrials: the story of my Rico. Bronx said to pass on this book as gotti doesn't talk about any mob guys that are alive. Like he skips out 88 to 98 he on the panel of a crime family. Its ok . not worth 20$. He leaves out all the mafia politics that could put him in trouble with guys today. Sammy's crew did all turn to rats and there no love lost between him n watts. Watts must be steaming in his cell.

Please, ehh.. Junior is at least JUST AS MUCH of a liar as Alite. They're both scumbags who have contributed nothing to society... and they're both rats, no matter how someone might feel about it. There's no middle ground in ratting... you either rat or you don't. Like PB compared it a while ago, it's like saying you're just "a little pregnant."
Looking forward to start reading a new book, about 40 pages in Al D'Arco's book and it's a little slow, very detailed etc but honestly I don't think Al is interesting/notorious enough of a character to have like hundreds of pages only dedicated to his early life and otherwise boring life events. I had the same problem with Murder Machine an Montiglio... not interesting enough for 1/3 of the book to be about him, I think that's one of Capeci's mistakes. The parts on Nino and his early life though, I'd gladly read.
And Montiglio even went to 'Nam so yeah he's not a boring guy by any means, but c'mon not 150 pages just about him.

well said PMAC, jimmy brown was a sneak, he fucked with JR a lot.mislead him into some areas . brown was old school CN..hated gotti SR , jr more so, but could do nothing but sit back and wait it all out..

Malandrino, great name by the way, you are on the spot regardless how anyone else feels, there is no now it's 2015 mentality..you open your mouth you ratted..

John paints a good picture. In 92 browns gaining power after Sammy flips he has a meeting his guys and jrs in a warehouse in queens and gets brown to back down off of killing any guys close to Sammy still on the street. And all but his brother in law who he said told him to rat never rated and is doing life today for a Sammy hit. Brown had his own cousin killed and these guys were old. Jr got lucky cause Marino and brown and watts all got sweet deals for murder and plead out to 6 yrs.leaving the gottis in charge for the rest of the 90tys. I thinking if the corrozos threw there weight behind brown it would have been war. Malad I'm not saying gotti isn't a liar but he just leaves the shit he would have to lie about out of his book and yaeh he's a rat.his uncles must be sick. He kills alite in some story about Joe defede going to a sit down with the gambinos for alite. Gotti catches a lot of bs. Once john got his button and his dad boss I'm guessing that's when the coke stick ups weren't cool no more. Side note remember reading peter gotti went to browns wake.

pmac.. it was scars who pushed JR to save sammys guys... corozzos , marino, brown watts got together and wanted them dead.. they knew it was scars behind it and were not happy he had JRs ear and influenced him..read scars material.pete never should have went to browns wake..a lot of guys did not go..

I had the exactly same taughts at the beginning of D'arcos book, it got better eventually. But there are apparently some mistakes/lies in the book like many other mob books.

Yea I agree with D'arcos book. Started out very slow. I think I even skipped a couple pages. But like someone said it picked up later in the book.

Currently reading Family Affair: Greed, Treachery, and Betrayal in the Chicago Mafia. Very good and even better if you already are a bit updated on Outfit stuff such as Chicago Heights crew, the chop shop wars, 26th Street Crew and the legend of Tony Spilotro. Some good sidestories, such as the botched attemt on Chicago Heights bigwig Al Pilotto.