Hi!
Originally posted by Don Sicilia:
...the only part of the book that I disliked was the whole Dr. Jules/Lucy Mancini section. Totally unrelated, totally unnecessary...
... very market oriented... I read somewhere that Puzo just got tired writing good books that nobody read, and decided to make a hit. Well, he managed it, in a sense. I mean, being a bestseller is undoubtly a good thing (see the original mail), but this doesn't help to qualify as a piece of art, sorry: you also can name a few, I guess.
Perhaps I have to expand on this: the amount of really great books is so big that an outstanding (in some parts) achievement of
Mario Puzo is dwarved by comparison. The amount of movies, although noticeable, is very much smaller, and here the Trilogy stands out as a sole peak on a very uneven mountainous landscape, with dinosaurs crawling way down along the river.
Best regards.
Alexander
