1 registered members (Turnbull),
685
guests, and 4
spiders. |
Key:
Admin,
Global Mod,
Mod
|
|
Forums21
Topics42,458
Posts1,061,291
Members10,349
|
Most Online992 Jun 1st, 2024
|
|
|
Re: WARNING
#279006
03/07/05 06:02 PM
03/07/05 06:02 PM
|
Joined: Apr 2002
Posts: 367 Baltimore, MD
Don Provalone
Capo
|
Capo
Joined: Apr 2002
Posts: 367
Baltimore, MD
|
Originally posted by dontomasso: What? Are you saying the writing was ok, but the continuity, plot, character development and similarities with the original were missing? Thats like saying someone is a good golfer except that he cant drive, chip or putt. ...not quite - the intent is that someone who has good skills produced a poor piece of work. For example, a baseball player can get 3 at bats in a game and strike out two of the three times (66% failure rate). Yet a 33% success rate (i.e., a .333 average) over the course of his career is enough to get into the Hall of Fame. Likewise, Winegardner may be a good writer, but this time he struck out.
"People who are not serious, should not be taken seriously"
|
|
|
Re: WARNING
#279008
03/17/05 10:39 AM
03/17/05 10:39 AM
|
Joined: Jan 2005
Posts: 85
Sonny Forelli
Button
|
Button
Joined: Jan 2005
Posts: 85
|
yah, but have you even heard of another book but winegarnder, much less read it :p
but that aside at least he tried, and he does appear to be an above average writer
"I'm your Older Brother Mike, And I was stepped over!"
|
|
|
Re: WARNING
#279010
03/17/05 04:29 PM
03/17/05 04:29 PM
|
Joined: Jan 2005
Posts: 85
Sonny Forelli
Button
|
Button
Joined: Jan 2005
Posts: 85
|
well, lets just say the book kept me readying, it was deffinetly not the worst book I've ever read, but it's not the best. People probably would have been dissapointed with anything that Winegardner or anyone else wrote.
"I'm your Older Brother Mike, And I was stepped over!"
|
|
|
Re: WARNING
#279011
03/18/05 12:55 PM
03/18/05 12:55 PM
|
Joined: Nov 2004
Posts: 229 Chicago, IL
Donatello Noboddi
Made Member
|
Made Member
Joined: Nov 2004
Posts: 229
Chicago, IL
|
I just finished this book. I have to agree, it kept me reading, but I found the originality of the book lacking. Basically he took real-life mobsters and situations and changed their names. Puzo had some similarities with real-life mobsters but the situations were not almost verbatim to real-life.
I came, I saw, I had no idea what was going on, I left.
|
|
|
Re: WARNING
#279013
03/22/05 10:08 AM
03/22/05 10:08 AM
|
Joined: Oct 2004
Posts: 34
micky2guns the barber
Wiseguy
|
Wiseguy
Joined: Oct 2004
Posts: 34
|
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. Even if in his later days, when Winegardner Retires to london to finish his memoires and he is a celebrated Author, will people still be on this board tearing apart his writing, more likely than not, having never rewad a single shread of anything else he had ever done.
"If anything in this life is certain; If history has taught us anything, it's that you can kill anyone."
|
|
|
Re: WARNING
#279014
03/23/05 07:52 AM
03/23/05 07:52 AM
|
Joined: Oct 2004
Posts: 3,733
JustMe
Underboss
|
Underboss
Joined: Oct 2004
Posts: 3,733
|
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:
keep your mouth shut, and your eyes open.
|
|
|
|