Winegardner, all in all, is a good writer-however, the more he stayed away from the original characters, the better the book would have been. I don't think that any of the characters were portrayed acurately in his book. If the book concentrated more on Geraci, and the original characters were only minor, I think that it would have been much more satisfying.
"I never wanted this for you. I work my whole life--I don't apologize--to take care of my family, and I refused to be a fool, dancing on the string held by all those bigshots. I don't apologize--that's my life--but I thought that, that when it was your time, that you would be the one to hold the string. Senator Corleone; Governor Corleone."
-Don Vito Corleone to his son, Michael
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