How is Omerta ?

is it a good book and what is it about ?
thanks

It's a pretty good book. I haven't read it in quite a while, so I really couldn't give you any specific plot details.

Its a really good book I haven't read it in a few months. You should read it.

its a short read and a good book but not as good as the Godfather, Sicilian and The Last Don. but its worth reading. . .

GoodFella

I love Mario Puzo. Love his novels to death. But I really didnt like Omerta. It didnt have that old school Puzo "feeling" to it. An maybe it wasnt sposed to, but either way, i didnt like the plot and the end pissed me off too. so did that girl.

I could not put it down.

Omerta is a good book. If the The Godfather didn't exist, we will be talking about it. But i as you read it, you don't care much for its main characters and protagonists. Even the vilains don't have the chilling effect that Sollozzo and Don Barzini had. The proof is that i just read it last year twice and yet i wouldn't be able to name more than 4 characters from that novel. It was as if Puzo had written it rapidly to make a quick buck and wrote it without passion. And towards the end of the novel, the plot takes an implausible and almost comical twist involving an African-AMerican female police officer. Well, my opinion at least.

Omerta is an excellent book, in my opinion. As is The Last Don, and the rest of Mario Puzo's books. I am currently reading it for the third time.

i thought is was a good read , been trying to get time for the family myself....

I don't this it was all Puzo's work, didn't he die (RIP) before finishing it, and a family member finished it for him?

Jonah, you could be right but I thought this was the last completed book that Puzo wrote. The Family was however completed after Puzo's death by his lifelong companion Carol Gino.

I'm definetly gonna read Omerta sometime soon I am almost done with the last don and after reading your post oggie I want to know what you think is so good in the book not that I dont think its good I just want to know what parts you li ked.

if you're talking about the last Don, the parts i like was mostly on Dante's attitude. he's a lot different in the book compared to the movie. like what he did to the actress in the hotel . . . in Omerta, there is no particular part i remember right now but you'll enjoy the book an i recommend it for you to read. and as ecpected, the "twist" in the story always tops . . .

GoodFella

I havent seen the movie but I plan to in the near future. Don't even remind me about Dante and that girl in the hotel.

you should'nt ask! that's your problem!

GoodFella

I think "Omerta" is a fantastic book! You should definately check it out, it is one of Puzo's best!

so far, i have read two Mario Puzo books... the Godfather and Omerta. i enjoyed both but Omerta seemed to keep me more entertained. dont get me wrong, the Godfather is a timeless classic but i really liked how Astore Viola was pertrayed in Omerta. My final conclusion, Mario Puzo is a great writer!

I just bought Omerta a couple of days ago and am only on the 2nd or 3rd chapter. On first impression, the book seems just okay but I haven't really gotten into it yet.

It was kinda slow for the first three chapters I thought because I didn't quite get what was going on, but it doesn't get into the main characters til a little afterwards, then it really takes off. I love Omerta, I pray they make it into a movie!

Some people say Omerta is an excellent book, entertaining..., and some say that it isn't good and not entertaining... I guess it's all about the person reading it, and what kind of story's they prefer.

Can somebody tell me a little about Omerta, what is it about?

A dying Don secretly meets with his three most trusted men (also dons). The Don already had three kids (I believe it was three) whom had been raised by one mother and due to the wealth of the family were in legitimate businesses. The meeting of the Don with his three most trusted men is to decide who will take care of his secret son who will be brought up to be the successor. I'm trying to make it sound interesting without revealing much of the plot.

I may be slightly off as far as who the Don's kids are, but i think i'm correct. I havent' read the book in a long time.

I was really blown away by Omerta. I thought the characters were great and the story was just crazy with plot twists and Mario Puzo often painted a pretty good picture particularly of Sicily. This is one book I actually got the hardback of too.

Im currently on chapter 4 of Omertá.
The following is an edited extract from chapter 3 which I thought was interesting:

"At one point in his career Kurt Cilke had been sent to an FBI antiterrorist school. During that time he had access to the most highly classified memoranda and case scenarios on the possible use of nuclear weapons by terrorists from small countries. The files detailed which countries had weapons. Russia, France and England, possibly India and Pakistan. It was assumed that Israel had nuclear capability. Kurt read with fascination scenarios detailing how Israel would use nuclear weapons if an Arab bloc were at the point of overwhelming it.
For the US there were 2 solutions: if Israel were so attacked, the US would side with Israel before it had to use nuclear weapons. Or if Israel could not be saved, the US would have to wipe out Israel's nuclear capability.
England and France were not seen as problems, they could never risk nuclear war.
The most immediate danger was from small countries like IRAQ, Iran, and Libya, WHERE LEADERS WERE RECKLESS, or so the scenarios claimed. The solution here was unanimous. THOSE COUNTRIES WOULD BE BOMBED TO EXTINCTION WITH NUCLEAR WEAPONS.
THE GREATEST SHORT-TERM DANGER WAS THAT TERRORIST ORGANISATIIONS SECRETLY FINANCED AND SUPPORTED BY FOREIGN POWER WOULD SMUGGLE A NUCLEAR WEAPON INTO THE US AND EXPLODE IT IN A LARGE CITY. PROBABLY NEW YORK OR WASHINGTON DC. THIS WAS INEVITABLE.
The proposed solution was the formation of task forces to use counterintelligence and the utmost punitive measures against these terrorists and whoever backed them. It would require special laws that would abridge the rights of American citizens. The scenarios acknowledged the impossibility of these laws until somebody finally succeeded at BLOWING UP A GOOD PORTION OF AN AMERICAN METROPOLIS. Then the laws would pass easily. But until then, as one scenario airily remarked, "It was the luck of the draw".

Edited extract? This isn't in the book? If not where did you get it?

I mean there are bits I left out when typing it up. It is in the book.

I liked Omerta while I was reading it, but it's the only Puzo book I've read only once. I don't really remember it too well, but I'd recommend it because of who the author is, and his works aren't let downs.

I could say that it was the greatest book ever written, but that would only be because I read it on my rooftop pool of the Hotel San Paolo overlooking Palermo and the Lemon and Orange trees, and of course, The Mediterranean. But really it was no match for the GF, it lacks proper character development and the grittiness of his earlier works. It was entertaining, and my personal surroundings couldn't have been more apropos.