I fully urge everyone to read the book, before seeing the movie. I was sitting around home, bored shitless and my mum threw me the book and I started reading and was completely drawn into Mario Puzo's world of the Mafia dynasty. I finnished the book in 1 week and to my absolute delight they were showing all 3 movies in a row that weekend. I was so rapt and reading the book makes all the killings in the Baptism scene make sense. Anyone that says that the book is a waste of time should not even bother coming on here and insulting my intelligence because it makes me very angry.