![]() ![]() He kept me going with the anticipation of something about to happen. I kept wanting to speed-listen through these parts and get back to the real story.īut Puzo is a master of narrative drive. The most frequent tangents follow Johnny Fontaine, the crooner/movie star who is supposedly based on Frank Sinatra. Puzo takes too many tangents, following minor characters and their respective plights rather than sticking closely with the Corleone family wherein lies the heart of the story. The Godfather deserves to be the great classic it has become, but in my opinion, this is one instance in which the movie (or movies, plural, since the second Godfather movie also came from the book) is better than the novel. And since each of them insert their own unique performance into their respective roles, you get more emotion and delivery than is often heard from a single voice. It’s easy to follow the dialogue because you grow accustomed to the actors’ voices. ![]() The effect is like listening to a movie, and I mean that as a compliment. Most audiobooks are read by a single narrator, but a few rare gems use a full cast of actors to play the role of every character in the novel. What prompted my seeing it was the audiobook of the novel The Goodfather by Mario Puzo, which I had been listening to and only just finished. As noted in a previous post, I only recently saw the second Godfather movie.
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