Originally posted by julioclaudio:
Originally posted by plawrence:
[b]Forget Winegardner. He has no more credibility than you or I or anyone else.
In fact, he may have less.
How do you figure that what Winegardner wrote is "official history" of
The Godfather, too?
Because Random House, Puzo's
former publisher gave him an advance to write a book?
Sorry if I'm belaboring this point, but this is a sore spot with me.
Mario Puzo and Francis Ford Coppola had nothing to do with it.
They created the characters and brought them to life
There's nothing "official" about anything that Winegardner wrote. It's nothing but his opinion.
One author cannot expand upon the work of another and claim that his story is "official".
I don't care how many books he'e published in the past, how much advance money he got to write this one, how much the estate or family of
Mario Puzo may have authorized it....it makes absolutely no differnce.
