That’s actually how I came to read this book. Plus it’s one of those films that, if I see it on TV, I can easily watch the rest regardless of where I’m entering the story. It’s regularly found on top ten or top five lists by laypeople and film buffs alike, sometimes with its sequel. But The Godfather has always seemed self-evidently a great film, if not one of the the greatest ever made. Now, I’m not nearly as interested in film as I am in literature, and I’ve probably only read fewer than ten Mafia-related novels (some by the great Leonardo Sciascia comes to mind). The answer is yes, though its structure and additional material not found in the film make it stand easily outside the long, formidable shadow of the film. Most people question whether a movie can be as good as the book it’s based on (the answer is almost always “no”).īut when I started reading Mario Puzo’s The Godfather, I asked myself the opposite – would Puzo’s novel be even comparable to Francis Ford Copolla’s film adaptation? Could it?
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