Good mafia book I haven't read yet? I know thus isn't the tight space on the forum but I'm heading to the bookstore in like an hour! I have read murder machine, underboss, brutal, blood and honor, black mass and a couple other Boston books. Is "I heard you paint houses" worth the read? What about the al d arco one? Anything on Canada?

Deal with the Devil about Scarpa? In the Godfather's Garden about Richie the Boot?
You probably have read Wiseguy which Goodfellas is based on or the original Donnie Brasco, I'm guessing.

Thanks I will give the scarpa book a try if they have it. Not interested in wiseguy because I know the ins and outs already. Thanks though. Anybody know if the 6th family is worth it? I think they want like $40 for that lol

Wiseguy is still worth a read regardless... it's the little details that make it so engaging. True that most of it is portrayed in Goodfellas but I enjoyed it nonetheless.

6th family is like 10$ on amazon, no idea where you got 40$ from... maybe it varies from place to place.

The Scarpa book has a little too much FBI stuff, imo... I'm barely halfway and I'll continue it some other time, those documents get a little boring.

All they had last time I was at Barnesand noble was the hhardcover and it was crazy expensive. I love amazon but I'm already going to the store anyway and wanna get stoned and read tonight haha.

I enjoyed The Sinatra Club and Vinnie Gorgeous, just to name two. There are still a lot more out there

Watcha smokin' on?....Some Kurupts Moonrocks?

"I heard you paint houses" is a great read. another good read is "the quite don" a story about Russell buffalino.
and the best one is "five families" by Selwyn raab.

another is "joey" a story of joey gallo, the authors name is goddard. [can't think of his first name.] great read.

How could I forget the Vinny g book? Boom headed there now. As far as what I'm smoking lol my guy has huge variety I have girl scout cookies, alien of and pure kush. I love the indica's and the pure kush is amazing

thank you my friend

I heard they paint houses is a good read weather you believe the Irish man's account of Hoffa's death or not.The outfit by Gus Russo is a pretty good read also Wiseguys,five families,murder machine ,gotti rise and fall ,bringing down the mob ,mob boss little al d`arco,mob and the city ,cosa nostra a history of the Sicilian mafia to name but a few.

Aight..There it is, rolling Vegas style, screaming out the window "money ain't a thing."

I don't know anything about that buddy. Walking in cherry hill Barnes and noble if any of you wanna try to stab me or just say hello. I am the white guy...

"It's a stickup don't make it a murder"

I wanted the al d arco book and they don't have it. Getting vVinny gorg. I heard you paint houses and the quiet down...

I actually settled on vinny g and American desperado by Jon Roberts, been wanting to read the Roberts book for a bit so I will order the al d arco and I heard you paint houses online. Thanks for the quick input youse guys are great... Lol

Mikey I loved the book. PM as you read it.

Which one cheech!?

American desperado is realllly good..reading blood and honor by anastasia carmandis story pretty good so far

The First Family is a really great book if you want to find out about the Morello gang.

Maybe this is obvious, but the Joe Bonanno biography is very informative when you determine what is true and what is not.

To me the Gotti Tapes was an informative book because you can hear the guys on it.

Looking forward to Desperado, saw all cocaine cowboys stuff, very intriguing shit. Blood and Honor IMO is one of the best reads concerning LCN because it really shows you the inherent problems with tying to govern crime wih rules and traditions. The treachery is so real I felt like I was there. caramandi was a sleeze bag for sure but he is not holding anything back or self serving (Leonetti, etc). Pretty much as good as it will ever get for info on that era.

Joe Bonanno always seemed like such a jerk off to me, I probably have slept on his book, maybe I should give it a shot. He allways struck me as like a regal version of Feech from the Sopranos, the type of guy that would really enjoy the smell of one of his farts, but I digress...I'm like 50 pages into Vinny Gorgeous, which is great!

Haha he was without a doubt a jerk off. And he is absolutely convinced that he's not. Still I think it's one of those books that you can't pass by if you "study" the subject.

Vincent bascianos book is shite , they could have made it 2 chapters long and put it in king of godfathers the book about massino

Im enjoying it. It's obviously not like a long, deep, challenging read but it's decent. I will check out the king of godfathers book for sure.

AD jon roberts and evan wright

Awesome should be reading it by the weekend

a lot of guest appearances in the book...Henry Borelli, staten island joe of course...I mean this guy was really mean all in all hes nothing like he is in the documentary, hes definitely stone cold as they come, youll read and find out about his upbringing. super fucked up but intriguing none the less

The way Henry Borelli was portrayed in American Desperado is far more disturbing than what you read about him in Murder Machine, and that's saying something.

Gonna start AD tonight! You guys have me intrigued. No homo