What in the Sicilian is appealing to readers? I've tried to read it, twice, but put it down after the first hundred pages because it was so slow. Am I missing something?

However, other MP books I have read (and enjoyed) include:

The Godfather (of course)
Fools Die
Omerta


"Any American who is prepared to run for president should automatically, by definition, be disqualified from ever doing so"-Gore Vidal
"Conformity is the jailer of freedom and enemy of growth"-John Fitzgerald Kennedy
"The reason the mainstream is thought of as a stream is because of its shallowness"-George Carlin