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Favorite books on the mob

SFG75

SFG75

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Was going to put this in the non-fiction part, but it relates a lot to crime. What are your favorite mafia books? I've read Peter Maas's Underboss, which deals with Sammy "The Bull" Gravano and his commentary on working with John Gotti. I have yet to read The Godfather or The Valachi Papers, but this is a topic that I'm very interested in.

Any thoughts?, this is a topic that you can't refuse. ;) :cool:
 
I read a lot of crime books!

Two of my favorites are

The Godfather by Mario Puzo!
And
Goodfellas by Nicholas Pileggi :)
 
ruby said:
I read a lot of crime books!

Two of my favorites are

The Godfather by Mario Puzo!
And
Goodfellas by Nicholas Pileggi :)
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It's interesting that you mentioned Goodfellas. Henry Hill, whose life the book and movie are based on, lives 90 miles west of me and operates a restauraunt. It would be interesting to go there, but kind of morbid.:cool:
 
SFG75 said:
It's interesting that you mentioned Goodfellas. Henry Hill, whose life the book and movie are based on, lives 90 miles west of me and operates a restauraunt. It would be interesting to go there, but kind of morbid.:cool:
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It would be morbid but i would have to go!
 
Leonardo Sciasica's The Day of the Owl is a wonderful insight into that world, and it's refreshingly short to boot. It's very much an image of the corruption and ubiquitous power the mob had over Sicily, though I know he's written some novels about the more beautiful sides of Sicily as well. It's written as a detective novel of sorts, but it might be disappointing if you bring the usual expectations you might have for such a book, due to its inconclusive nature.
 
Mack Bolan (aka the executioner spent thirty-eight books and something like fifteen years fighting the mob and came very close to brining it to its knees.
 
"The Godfather" is my favorite book of all time. Goodfellas or "Wise Guy" (the original title) was great for a non-fiction read. Another good read is "Gangster" by Lorenzo Carcaterra.

I have read a couple of sequels to "The Godfather", but I did not find them near as entertaining.
 
gkbk said:
"The Godfather" is my favorite book of all time. Goodfellas or "Wise Guy" (the original title) was great for a non-fiction read. Another good read is "Gangster" by Lorenzo Carcaterra.

I have read a couple of sequels to "The Godfather", but I did not find them near as entertaining.
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Mario Puzo is a heck of a writer. I also haven't been too thrilled with some of the "magic" that he tries to recreate, there is only so many times that one can return to the well.

This topic reminds me of a funny mafia reference I ran across in reading Blind Ambition by John Dean. The minimum security prison he was at featured three watergate felons and a ton of mafia turncoats that would be testifying in upcoming trials. One of the watergate three was Charles Colson, who underwent a conversion in prison and even started a prison ministry that is thriving to this day. Early on, he expressed reservations to Dean that a ministry wouldn't work, as the mafia guys insisted they were solid catholics.:D
 
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