elizanderson1066 's review for:

The Godfather by Mario Puzo

1.0

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A book about the Sicilian Mafia will undoubtedly have an exciting plot line, and this book does deliver this. However, it is hard to enjoy the suspenseful events due to the fact that the book is APPALLINGLY written. Puzo's style is clumsy, juvenile and lacks any kind of sophistication or finesse. The sex scenes read like they're written by a pubescent child and the majority of the characters lack any kind of real depth. I found that I did not care in the slightest what happened to any of the main characters. Add to this the incredible number of grammatical errors, misused words and TYPING ERRORS (at one point, Puzo uses the wrong character name, it is very obvious he is talking about someone else), and you end up with one of the worst books, in terms of writing style, that I have ever read. If this is Puzo's best work, I shudder to think what his other books are like. Awful.