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| Dormant: What Are You Reading Now? : What You're Reading the Week of 14 Oct 2006 | | 80 | zimbeline, March 2007 | |
... by Baroness Orczy
2. The Front Page by Ben Hecht (His Girl Friday)
3. The Uninvited by Dorothy Macardle
4. The Godfather by Mario Puzo
5. Roots by Alex Haley
6. All the President's Men by Carl Bernstein
7. Wonder Boys by Michael Chabon
8. Mysterious Skin by Scott Heim ... ... a
5. Appaloosa by Robert B. Parker
6. Revolutionary Road by Richard Yates
7. Witches of Eastwick by John Updike
8. Godfather by Mario Puzo
9. Breakfast at Tiffany's by Truman Capote
10. The Godfather I and II are infinitely better than the book, which was basically trash, although quite enjoyable in its way. The singer in the movie version of The Godfather just passed away a week or so ago. His name escapes me at the moment. ... and Inebriated Times of Burton, Harris, O'Toole and Reed by Robert Sellers
7 Pictures at a Revolution by Mark Harris
8 The Godfather by Mario Puzo
9 Me Cheetah
10 62. The Godfather by Mario Puzo
I had read this about a million years ago, so wanted to read again (and it's on the 1001 Books list).
Great book, interesting story and characters. I followed the reading of the book with a watching of the movie (also very good). ... disappointing, and generally avoid them.
And then there are movies that are much better than the books, most notably The Godfather, both I and II. ...
1. The Godfather by Mario Puzo
2. Devil in a Blue Dress by Walter Mosley
3. Neverwhere by Neil Gaiman
... The Godfather by Mario Puzo
Sons of Fortune by Jeffrey Archer
The Laws of our Fathers by Scott Turow
Eyes of a Child by Richard North Patterson
The Third Twin by Ken Follett 28. The Godfather by Mario Puzo i finished The Godfather and am now reading Out of Africa for a light read after reading about mafia and blood and goer just started reading The Godfather its awesome and gives you a clear view of how the mafia used to work in the 40 50 and 60's. If you would like you can see the Godfather movies, the second which is less violent, which won best picture in 1974 The Call of the Wild
Beloved
Love in the Time of Cholera
The Godfather
A Farewell to Arms
Kidnapped
Saturday
The Colour Purple
Jane Eyre
Frankenstein I adored the godfather too! I really really didn't expect to like it - it's not my thing at all but I got so hooked. 139. The Godfather by Mario Puzo. You know..I appreciate "scholarly literature", stuff that was groundbreaking in its technique or whatever. But if the story isn't interesting, my heart just isn't in it. It's kind of like modern art..I mean I get it, it's just not very moving. Impressive, but not ... just started The Godfather by Mario Puzo. I've developed this amazing new system to pick what I read next- find my bookshelf with the least amount of books unread. Read all books on that shelf until I FINALLY have a shelf with all the books on it read. Repeat. Found a shelf with just this book ... ... rings
46- Doctor Zhivago
47- Manon des sources
48- One hundred years of solitude
49- 2001: a space odyssey
50- The godfather
51- The year of the hare
52- Interview with the vampire
53- Hitchiker's guide to the galaxy
54- The name of the rose
55- The handmaid's tale
56 ... Your review cracked me up, too. I've never even read The Godfather because I love the movie (1 & 2, not 3) so much that I'm afraid the book won't come anywhere near it. So backwards, I know.
#193, There were some very educational scenes in The Godfather too. The book, that is. In their prime, Scorsese and Coppola could make great 3 hour works (Casino and The Godfather come to mind). Now, not so much. ... Adams
13. Humbolt's Gift - Saul Bellow
14. Invisible Cities - Italo Calvino
15. Rabbit Redux - John Updike
16. The Godfather - Mario Puzo
17. 2001: A Space Odessey - Arthur C. Clarke
18. Wide Sargasso Sea - Jean Rhys
19. One Day in the Life of Ivan Denisovich - Alexander Sol ... ... loyalty, we will all be condemned."
Again knowing little of Puzo outside of his works on world renowned titles such as The Godfather and The Last Don I figured this book was another in the line of Italian Mob stories. Man was I off, by a couple of centuries no less.
This story has ... ... Anne Rice
52. Slaughterhouse Five Kurt Vonnegut
53. The French Lieutenant's Woman John Fowles
54. The Godfather Mario Puzo
55. Cancer Ward Alexander Solzhenitsyn
56. 2001: A Space Odyssey Arthur C. Clarke
57. The Graduate Charles Webb
58. O ... ... lity
Shopgirl
Sideways
Smilla's Sense of Snow
Snow Falling on Cedars
Sophie's Choice
Talented Mr. Ripley
The Godfather
The Graduate
The Hunchback of Notre Dame (cartoons count, right?)
The Last Picture Show
The Maltese Falcon
The Other Boleyn Girl
The Postman A ... ... pperfield
Death of a Salesman
The Lord of the Rings
Frankenstein
Fried Green Tomatoes at the Whistle Stop Cafe
The Godfather
Great Expectations
The Great Gatsby
Fight Club
Hilary and Jackie
The Hobbit
Howards End
I Never Promised You a Rose Garden ... Jean Brodie, 2008
63. One Flew Over the Cuckoo's Nest, 1970s
64. Wide Sargasso Sea, 2008
65. Eva Trout, 2006
66. The Godfather, 1970s
67. The French Lieutenant's Woman, 2007
68. Goalie's Anxiety at the Penalty Kick, 2008
69. High Rise, 2008
70. The Shining, 1980s
... Trout by Elizabeth Bowen, 1980
204. them by Joyce Carol Oates, 1970
205. Ada by Vladimir Nabokov, 1976
206. The Godfather by Mario Puzo, 1970
207. Portnoy's Complaint by Philip Roth, 1970's
208. *The Green Man by Kingsley Amis, 1970
209. The French Lieutenant's Woman ... ... guilty pleasure:
"The Silly Little Show-biz Book Club" -- the Onion's AV Club.
Best book about "family values":
The Godfather by Puzo
Best book for aspiring conservatives:
Might is Right by Ragnar Redbeard
Best book for aspiring liberals:
In Defense of Food: an ... Got The Coppola Restoration of the Godfather Trilogy for Xmas. Can't wait to see it. I love The Godfather II but I'm also willing to give Godfather III a second chance. It sucks compared to Part II, but that's an almost impossible act to follow.
"Strange Brew" was an excellent adaptation of ... The Godfather by Mario Puzo
Badge of the Assassin by Robert Tanenbaum
Honor Among Thieves by Jeffrey Archer
The Mind of Adolph Hitler by Walter C. Langer
A Thief of Time by Tony Hillerman
... Valley of the Dolls until the cover came apart.
The Love Machine
Valley of the Dolls
Portnoy's Complaint
The Godfather
You Only Live Twice Two BM's :The Godfather and The Golden Ball and Other Stories cliffburns
I just wanted to comment on two of your books.The GodfatherThis is a case of without the book their would have been no movie.This movie would have never been made without the success of the novel.I heard Dicks book that became Bladerunner and the film is not at all like the book ... The Godfather now has 2,888 books on LT, prestty good growth for a half year. ... about the folks winning the Nobel Prizes one year. The Man was also OK (bad touchstone).
Of Puzo, I've only read The Godfather and The Dark Arena. Liked the former. Didn't like the latter.
... Ben Hecht ("His Girl Friday")
3. The Uninvited by Dorothy Macardle
4. All the President's Men by Carl Bernstein
5. The Godfather by Mario Puzo
6. Shoeless Joe by W.P. Kinsella ("Field of Dreams")
7. Fight Club by Chuck Palahniuk
8. Wonder Boys by Michael Chabon
9. Mysterious S ... ... Scarlet Pimpernel by Baroness Orczy
2. The Front Page by Ben Hecht, et al
3. The Uninvited by Dorothy Macardle
4. The Godfather by Mario Puzo
5. All the President's Men by Carl Bernstein
6. Shoeless Joe by W.P. Kinsella
7. Fight Club by Chuck Palahniuk
8. Wonder Boys by Mich ... ...
Motherless Brooklyn by Jonathan Lethem
Life With Father by Clarence Day
Mommie Dearest by Christina Crawford
The Godfather by Mario Puzo ... book...or rage against a flick that spoiled one of your cherished tomes.
Some that immediately comes to mind for me:
THE GODFATHER--(terrible book, terrific movie)
JAWS (ditto--Benchley is one of the worst authors ever)
A SCANNER DARKLY (no one has done Phil Dick better)
TEN DAYS T ... The Godfather was an amazing movie and a third-rate book. It's been a day, so here we go again . . . I'm sure someone out there has read The Godfather, by Mario Puzo (and a strange edition to the list in my opinion).
Motherless Brooklyn by Jonathan Lethem
Flags of Our Fathers by James Bradley
The Godfather by Mario Puzo
The Divine Secrets of the Ya-Ya Sisterhood by Rebecca Wells
Close Relations by Susan Isaacs And very occasionally there are movies that are better than the book -- The Godfather being the prime example of this. ... because it's on the 1001 list and because my friend raved about it and she has good taste in books.
I bought The Godfather at a used book store, also because of the 1001 list.
Finally, Pink Slip I bought at a book outlet sale, just because it appealed to me. ... I finished it, which is a good sign and I mildly enjoyed it. Just know what you're getting yourself into :)
#32 was The Godfather, which I enjoyed a lot more than I thought I would. The story is just solid. Excellently told, engaging characters and hasn't aged a bit. Definitely recommend ... Possession:A Romance by A.S. Byatt
The Godfather by Mario Puzo #4 -- Interesting . . . except that they included Part II of The Godfather in the listing of gangster movies, in addition to part I. (I've never seen either, so couldn't tell you which was better.)
All in all, I was surprised at how many of those, on all of the lists, that I haven't seen. Of ... I've read The Godfather. Surely most of you have. ... part) is a good film. I actually find them pompous, badly paced, and down right boring.
Liked the books, though. Read both The Godfather and The Sicilian multiple times when I was younger.
I agree with you on the sf films part, though. But it is a tongue in cheek proverb ;-) ... According to Garp (303)
10. Fear of Flying (341)
11. Slaugterhouse-Five (375)
12. Portnoy's Complaint (378)
13. The Godfather (379)
14. Myra Breckinridge (384)
15. In Cold Blood (408)
16. To Kill a Mockingbird (456)
17. Breakfast at Tiffany's (467)
18. Doctor Zhivago ( ... ... returns. The first movie is an all time classic. For better or worse, it changed the face of movies even more than The Godfather or Jaws did.
But man, by Return of the Jedi, those movies just weren't good any more. I challenge anyone to defend the Ewoks. And the prequels...
I ... The Godfather. I know, not all that literary, but it was compelling (all that violence!). I read it to escape as much as possible the pain and stress of the final illness of my mom. Funnily enough, the last movie we saw together was "The Godfather." Her choice. US F I C T I O N
1. Portnoy's Complaint, Philip Roth 2,042 copies on LT
2. The Godfather, Mario Puzo 2,262 copies
3. The Love Machine, Jacqueline Susann 107 copies
4. The Inheritors, Harold Robbins 24 copies
5. The Andromeda Strain, Michael Crichton 2,32 ... ... By Scott Westerfeld
Pretties By Scott Westerfeld
Specials By Scott Westerfeld
The Book Thief by Markus Zusak
The Godfather by Mario Puzo
The Fountain Head By Ayn Rand and
Swann's Way By Marcel Proust
Finished Death in Venice & The godfather over the weekend. Really didn't like my first Thomas Mann novel, I felt there were too many long sentences and didn't find the story particularly interesting. The godfather on the other hand I loved.
Death in Venice 5/10
The godfather 10/10 ... #5 I didn't know Shantaram had a sequel. That makes me nervous, wondering if the quality will hold up. Remember The Godfather, Dune, and whatever the follow-up to Catch 22 was called? I will give it a chance when it comes out though. Crossing fingers. How to exit a murder scene in The Godfather: Leave the gun, take the cannoli.
Or is that only in the movie?? It's been a while since I read it. ... Man FINISHED
2. The Name of the Rose FINISHED
3. The spy who came in from the cold FINISHED
4. The Moonstone
5. The Godfather FINISHED
6. The Lincoln lawyer
7. The big sleep
8. The woman in white FINISHED
Fantasy:
1. The Hobbit FINISHED
2. The Lord of the rings 50th ... ... I die! It was a very unsetteling calculation...) from a second hand shop. But then they had this 3 for 10 euros deal...
The Godfather by Mario Puzo
Persuasion by Jane Austen
The world according to garp by John Irving
The great Gatsby by F. Scott Fitzgerald
Particularly Cats ... The Godfather I agree with amancine in #20. The Godfather was a fun book when I read it 18 years ago, but I knew it was basically lurid pop-trash, not meant to be taken any more seriously than your typical James Patterson book. The films (at least the first two) are classics because they transcend the book ... Oh, and The Godfather - the movie may be even better than the book. ... and Sensibility by Jane Austen
The Red Queen by Margaret Drabble
Titus Groan by Mervyn Peake
The Godfather by Mario Puzo
Kafka on the Shore by Haruki Murakami
Atonement by Ian McEwan
Gormenghast by Mervyn Peake
Also Re ... Received from Green Metropolis:
The Godfather by Mario Puzo
Alias Grace by Margaret Atwood
The Man Who Smiled by Henning Mankell ... be!
Other favorites: The Once and Future King by T.H. White, Me Talk Pretty One Day by David Sedaris, and The Godfather by Mario Puzo among many others! =D Halfway through The Godfather ...
Not sure about what is on deck, I am thinking it is going to be Collecting Candace by Susan M. Brooks. Just started Wicked by Gregory Maguire (no touchstone?) last night. The Godfather by Mario Puzo (no touchstone?) is on deck. thanks mcglocklin, I think I will.
This weekend I read:
3. The Godfather by Mario Puzo
4. The Good Soldier by Ford Madox Ford
and have just started the Forsyte Saga which will take me a few days...but lucky me there is a holiday weekend coming up where I will do nothing but read. ... not like it all that much, perhaps it just has not aged well or perhaps I just didn't like the depressing characters
4. The Godfather by Mario Puza - entertaining and fast moving, of course I'd seen the movie but I'm glad to have read the book too
I am also in the 1001 books to read ... Just finished Atonement and now I'm starting The Godfather.
Is anyone else going to try and go through the list like a challenge? I've seen the blog and it looks like fun...for the next twenty years... Finally finished The Godfather. Started Sophie's World late Saturday. Like it so far. ... a little harder on myself by picking movies that were better than the book. Usually goes the other way around, IMHO.
The Godfather Mario Puzo
Hannibal Thomas Harris
Spirits of the Dead two weak & one strong tale by
Edgar Allan Poe
The Searchers Alan Le May
Barr ... ...
And I definitely have to agree that Forrest Gump was much better as a movie then a book. I've heard the same about The Godfather, but have only seen it, never read it. ... grad school, it does not look like I am going to make it to 50. I only have two books to add.
30. The Godfather by Mario Puzo
31. A Thousand Splendid Suns by Kahled Hosseini
 Nickelini in Made into a Movie : When the movies are better than the books or vice versa (Aug 16, 2007, 6:24pm) I almost always prefer the book to the movie, but now I see that there are lots of exceptions, as detailed here (The Godfather, to name just one).
I thought the movie version of Frida was much better than the book by Hayden Herrera. I also had the same opinion of The Hours, by Michael ... #39, MichaelMenche, The Godfather movie was in a completely different class from the book, in my opinion. The movies (1 & 2, not 3) are brilliant; the book is just a run-of-the-mill Mafia story.
Edited to fix typos. ... are.
Are there other movies you liked better than the novel? In addition to the Falcon, I preferred the movie version of The Godfather.
The Picture of Dorian Gray by Oscar Wilde
The Godfather by Mario Puzo
Satan-Proof Your Home by Marilyn Hickey
The Strange Case of Dr. Jekyll and Mr. Hyde by Robert Louis Stephenson
The Herbert Huncke Reader NOT ELMO!!!
Apparently the mob-connected singer in The Godfather is based on Frank Sinatra. He was supposedly in pretty deep. ... The Magic Mountain and Travels with Herodotus by Ryszard Kapuscinski.
#127, fuzzy_patters, I haven't read The Godfather since it came out in paperback, but this is one case where the movie(s) are much, much better than the book. The movies (1 & 2, anyway) are brilliant; the ... I gave up on Poland by James Michener. I just could not get into it. I am currently about 130 pages into The Godfather by Mario Puzo. I am liking it a lot better. It has been a long time since I have seen the movie so the book feels new to me. ... I read in about 3 hours.
For older 20th century books on the list, Fear of Flying, One Flew Over the Cuckoo's Nest, the Godfather and the Shining were all enjoyable and manageable (although I'm not sure that Fear of Flying has stood the test of time).
As for the pre-1900 books on ... I don't think the recipe was given in the novel, but the scene in The Godfather film where Clemenza shows Michael how to make the sauce always makes me crave Italian. It was that infamous The Godfather page! I nearly wore it out, the book automatically fell open there. I had never seen a description of the part of the male that I had never seen, let alone what might be done with such. ... teenage years. I may have been one of the few boys to have ever read a Jackie Collins book.
I didn't get around to The Godfather until I was 17, so that didn't "learn" me anything.
Oh, and I did read Flowers in the Attic around the age of 13 or so.
I think I turned out fairly ... ... I was in the 7th grade. I dug it out of the garbage and finished it. Good thing she didn't know about the sex scenes in The Godfather! Mostly she left me alone with my reading and I turned out only a little weird. ... between the book and a movie helps to appreciate each one individually and I did find that having the book's background in The Godfather filled in what could have been some puzzling gaps in the movie's storyline.
#147 Limerts, someone who disliked the Princess Bride? Inconceivable. ... Harr - Extremely detailed, well-written account of the famous case in Woburn, Mass. I hear it's not much like the movie.
The Godfather, Mario Puzo - Like the movie, a classic.
A Prayer for Owen Meany, John Irving
An Instance of the Fingerpost, Iain Pears - To call it a ... Like kageeh, I may be showing my age here and, like the EW writer's colleagues, I vividly remember The Godfather and can guess what the infamous p. 27 is (although there were other "good" parts too). I don't know how much I learned from Lady Chatterley's Lover because I found it such an ... ... Lost, Of Mice and Men, Heart of Darkness (classics?), Prince of Tides, Accidental Tourist (contemporary fiction?), Godfather (crime fiction?), Shogun, Sounder (historical fiction?), Jaws (horror?), Snow Falling on Cedars (mystery?), Full Disclosure (suspense?), The Firm, Red ... ... Omen from. And not a brilliant novel, either - it's one of those cases where the movie is a lot better than the book (The Godfather is another one).
Steven Spielberg did a brilliant job of adapting Jaws to the screen, cutting out some of Benchley's unneeded longeurs (the affair ... ... foreign-ness of some of the language though, this is still a strikingly written page-turner of a high order(sort of The Godfather meets Shantaram), and I'm already curious as to what the critical reaction to it will be when it's published in the US in January.
... involved with the screenplay of the movie. The book was much more Hollywood than the movie.
In agreement with others, The Godfather was a better film than a book, and while I liked the story of Brokeback Mountain, I think the film improved upon it.
While it wasn't a bad Austen ... Jaws, The Godfather and The Third Man were all better movies than the works on which they were based, imho.
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