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"In Jokes" For True Fans (No Spoilers)
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11/21/04 09:49 AM
11/21/04 09:49 AM
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One of the reviews someone posted had that comment, but I can't find it Anyway, strictly speaking you can't call these "jokes", but only true fans would pick them up... In a one line preface to Book I in the original, Puzo uses the quote from Balzac "Behind every great fortune there is a crime". GRT has Fransesca making the same comment to her husband, attributing it "Balzac, maybe". Also, Winegardner writes "The death of (name ommitted) sent shockwaves through the underworld of the nation". Puzo uses exactly the same phrase when writing about the death of Sonny.
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Re: "In Jokes" For True Fans (No Spoilers)
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11/21/04 05:06 PM
11/21/04 05:06 PM
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Joined: Nov 2002
Posts: 12,543 Gateshead, UK
Capo de La Cosa Nostra
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Interesting. Please post more as and when you come across them. Having only read the book once, though, I wouldn't have picked up on the second example you posted. I welcome all hurled fruit coming my way, of course. Mick
...dot com bold typeface rhetoric. You go clickety click and get your head split. 'The hell you look like on a message board Discussing whether or not the Brother is hardcore?
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Re: "In Jokes" For True Fans (No Spoilers)
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11/24/04 05:25 PM
11/24/04 05:25 PM
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Joined: Nov 2002
Posts: 12,543 Gateshead, UK
Capo de La Cosa Nostra
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Originally posted by JeremyM: "Behind every great fortune there is a crime".
I think it was a crime that this guy wrote this book, and that he'll probably make a fortune. I hate to keep trashing this guy on the board, but it's too easy! He's awful! :p Welcome to the site. Mick
...dot com bold typeface rhetoric. You go clickety click and get your head split. 'The hell you look like on a message board Discussing whether or not the Brother is hardcore?
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Re: "In Jokes" For True Fans (No Spoilers)
#278682
11/30/04 10:37 PM
11/30/04 10:37 PM
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Joined: Oct 2003
Posts: 4,249 Desolation Row
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Stupid little thing I remembered from thinking about the movies: The s are mentioned in a scene where SPOILER WARNING Fredo is "captured" trying to cross the boarder from Canadia. He has them in his car though "he hasnt baught them since he father was shot....when one of the bullets tore through the oranges and hit good ol' Vito" How did they get into his car then? I dont think he went arond stealing oranges, and 2) Vito knocked the oranges onto the ground. I'm pretty sure he didnt try to use the ground orbs as a shield while being shot at. :rolleyes: *Sorry, couldnt help myself.
If winners never lose, well, then a loser sure can sing the blues.
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Re: "In Jokes" For True Fans (No Spoilers)
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12/08/04 12:13 PM
12/08/04 12:13 PM
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Joined: Dec 2004
Posts: 1 Whatchu think?
Milwaukee Don
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FYI, in GFR, the oranges were left behind by Fredo's 'date'.
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