[quote=Kastrioti.

However, the Lucy Mancini stuff was completely superfluous. I mean, who was she? Some broad Sonny was "doing the job" on who happened to have a "huge box". Her part should have been minimal. And Jules Segal should not have come into the story at all. He was the only character in the entire book who seemed really out of place to me. He felt like he didn't belong, and every time I read a part with him in it, I couldn't wait for it to be over. He took me out of the world of the Corleones.

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That was the weakest part of the book... but dont forget it was written not as great literature but as something on which Puzo wanted to make money. Sex sells, and he put gratuituous sex into the book for that reason.