The Fortunate Pilgrim

Who read this book?

I've started it three or four times, but it never held my interest and I've never gotten past the beginning.

I read the whole thing during a flight home from California one time. Great book! Not my favorite work from Puzo, but great none the less.

What's it about?

Basically an askewed autobiography of his life.

I think its a great read!
I'm not sure but i think its his first published work?
Might be wrong there....

Yea, that was his first work, followed by The Dark Arena, then the Godfather.

I read some of The Fortunate Pilgrim. I plan on reading the whole thing, though. I want to read it due to my interest in my great-grandparents' immigration here to America. I read before that Mario Puzo made this book with inspiration from his mother. I see my mother as The Don in my family also, so I plan on reading it out of interest and curiosity. I've read about 2 chapters so far and it seems to be a pretty good book.

It's a very good book.

this was a good book about a family. Not much mafia stuff in it (a little though). Still, a well written book about Puzo's generation of immigrants.