Well, welcome to the boards Mark, er, I mean Erik.

The dialogue in both books was horrible, end of story, "behold the wood," or Geraci's father calling him a big dummy and telling him he's gonna get a meat hook up his ass "butta-beepa-dee-boppa-dee boop." PUH-LEEZE!! It's insulting to Italian-Americans that a non Italian would write such nonsense. When James Caan brilliantly ad-libbed butta beep, etc...it was one thing, to put it on paper in a "novel," and I use that term loosely, is another.

He had every right to write the books, it's the American way, but he did a poor job.

And by the way, if he was SOOOO true to Puzo's novel, instead of the films, where were Michael's TWO sons?

Like I say, welcome to these boards, I mean that, but you won't find too many fans of those trash books around here. And not because they're based on "sacred texts" but because they're poorly written.