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Puzo never disappoints! It might sound outrageous to call a story about mobsters and killers introspective, but that is just what describes this one. He shows us just what makes all of the characters tick. He is indeed the master of this genre.


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The Last Don A Novel Mario Puzo Books Reviews

I knew I would enjoy this book and I was not disappointed. I was only sorry when I got to the last page. I did not want it to be over!
Everything I have read by Mario Puzo I have thoroughly enjoyed. The books can sometimes start slow but Puzo does a great job of helping you get to know various characters and telling the story from their perspective. You really become attached to characters and as I got closer and closer to the ending I just wanted the book to continue, I did not want the story to end. Keep in mind this is not about the Corleone family from the Godfather Series
Mario Puzo wrote a masterpiece when he wrote The Godfather. Even though The Last Don falls short of that designation, it is still a compelling and wonderfully entertaining read. The absolutes that were born in Sicily such as "omerta" continue into mid twentieth century America even as the Clericuzio family strives toward leaving behind the criminal empire they have embraced for years. Reaching legitimacy is made more difficult when some of the family members including one of the grandchildren obviously have no intention of abandoning the violence and criminality that is the family legacy. Even the more legitimate businesses of the casino and movie investments are eventually touched by murder and mayhem even as the family reaches for respectability. Puzo's brilliance as a writer, his astute character development and his ability to weave into this story believable narratives about all the characters that populate the pages of this novel make this a must read for fiction lovers and people who read also to understand different aspects of American culture. It may be fiction, but there is some truth here also.
This is an extraordinarily good read by master author Mario Puzo. It is the story of the fictional Clericuzio Family--the last great Mafia family in the United States. The Clericuzios at the height of the powers are dominant in gambling, drugs, and other related rackets. But the family patriarch, Don Clericuzio, sees organized crime for the dead end that it is, and devises a plan for his progeny to eventually transition to, and enter into the "legitimate world." But his plan envisions this transition to occur on his own terms, so that when the Family indeed abandons crime, it will do so from a position of strength, entering the ordinary world with wealth and prestige.
There are problems. Some members of the family are less than enthusiastic about abandoning the underworld, and this is the nexus of the story. Nephew Cross De Lena and Grandson Dante Clericuzio fight what amounts to a secret civil war within the Family, even as the legacy of earlier terrible deeds by the great Don himself finally come home to roost. This is an entertaining and insightful story, well-written. It is equally good with beer and chips, or for a more introspective reader.
The book is not without faults. As an attorney, I can only say that Puzo's depiction of "California juries" as regards the insanity defense, is simply asinine, and shows either a contempt for the way things really are, or a simple disregard for facts in order to entertain. OK, I guess, authors are entitled to take liberties with the truth in order to entertain us, I just thought that this particular liberty was unnecessary, since the book seems authentic in so many other ways. Whatever.
The novel's treatment of Hollywood is hilarious. Basically, Puzo depicts the struggles of competing studios, actors, and actresses in the entertainment world as essentially a legalized mob conflict, without the guns. I don't know much about Hollywood, so I have no comment about this except to say that here Puzo was pretty entertaining.
Overall, this was an outstanding book that makes for an excellent read.
Every time I read a book by Mario Puzo, I become more and more impressed with this mans writing style. His books always have a great combination of real world brutality, goodness, sex, and all the other mixes of human experience.
His sentences are simplistic and without airs, as are the ideas of the story, and it is this simplicity that gives Puzo's books an elegance that many modern writers lack. Mario is writing about something that is interesting and tells the reader what they need to know when they need to know it. He knows his subject material and creates a world that is interesting as well as believable.
Fools die was excellent, and then I read GodFather,and I was very impressed with that book also. I wasn't sure about this book, but I picked it up, and saw that even though it was about the same subject material (I thought it would just be a recounting of the godather), the storyline is fresh, with new characters that become well developmed by the end of the book.
Puzo also creates fantastic characters in this book, there is a mold to run by, the old sicilian mafia mold, but the characters in this book are removed by a generation or 2 from this mentality, and it is very interesting to see how Puzo shows their lives as caught in the middle of the mafia life of their parents and grandparents, and the americanized life they lead apart from Quoge LI and the "family".
This book was great, and a great read. Any book written by Puzo is worth reading because of his fantastic writing style, this book is no exception.
This is like the Godfather-lite. I read the edition, and there were many instances of improper hyphenation, it was like the typesetter was being paid a bonus for each hyphen added. I found only one true grammatical error, the use of "ensure" rather than "insure". As I finished this novel, I thought to myself, this could have been more, this could have been less.
Puzo never disappoints! It might sound outrageous to call a story about mobsters and killers introspective, but that is just what describes this one. He shows us just what makes all of the characters tick. He is indeed the master of this genre.