I'm only halfway thru, but have been finding it odd that Luca Brasi has been so verbose and articulate here -- yet in the movie, he was a bumbling idiot. He hardly appeared in the first film, but is practically the star of the novel so far. Which is fine, I guess.

But I do like how some backstories have been included.

I wanted to wait until I finished to comment, tho... But I did miss the "celebration" beginning that occurs at the beginning of each film... and Vito just doesn't "sound" like himself so far, and has been minimal in the story somehow, so far...

But I do like the writing style -- Falco paints a nice picture. Not nearly like Steinbeck or anything, but pretty okay. But some missed spelling edits made me cringe a little.

The glossary is cool, tho -- but don't find it necessary to italicize so much.

Anyway, I'm gonna wait 'til I'm finished...