Originally posted by Cancerkitty:
Forgive me if I sound like an ass, but I think Puzo's Godfather is vastly over-rated when it comes to the writing. Don't get me wrong, the story is fantastic, but the writing was not that great. Thus I don't think it's really fair to criticize MW's writing as compared to Puzo's.
Why is it not fair? If Winegardner’s writing loses in comparison with Puzo’s not even at his best, something’s wrong with Winegardner.
And I cannot agree with you about Puzo. His writing in GF is rather very uneven. In some parts of the story it’s fantastic, so elaborate, without a single unmeaning word and with so much sense between the lines!
And in other parts it seems that he was just filling pages with whatever crap came to his head, maybe not even spending a second thought on them… As Turnbull once surmised, and I agree with him totally, Puzo wished to write a bestseller, and he wrote those chapters because sex and Hollywood stars were exactly what could make the book sell. What an irony – now we are skipping those very parts as crap, to read the main story, which is written brilliantly!
As to your surmise that If MW couldn’t write it good, it doesn’t mean that he can't teach… Musicians have a good saying: Who cannot play, becomes a teacher. Who cannot teach, becomes a methodologist... :rolleyes: