The Godfather

The Godfather "The Godfather" is the beginning and ending of a mafia novel. It’s not the only wonderful book about organized crime, but it’s the richest and grandest. It looks inside a family of organized crime so deeply, that we don’t think of them as bad guys per say. They have respect and are behaved in a way that is very elegant. But there is also a bad part of their behavior …

…developed any better than Puzo does in the novel. When reading the novel, the reader forms a vision of how Vito Corleone looked, acted and even talked. The story by Mario Puzo is a brilliant conjuring act, inviting us to consider the Mafia entirely on its own terms. Don Vito Corleone emerges as a sympathetic and even admirable character; during the entire novel, this lifelong professional criminal does nothing of which we can really disapprove.