The godfather

I like the book better than the movie. It goes deeper into some minor characters, and it’s also a lot more violet. There’s one part that is just straight fricked up that they could have never put into the movie.

Never seen a book so centered around p***** and I’m being serious

It’s good. Read several times

Currently about to finish the book for the first time. Was surprised at how closely the movie followed the book.

Also, I enjoy that the book goes deeper into minor characters such as Nino, Lucy etc.

As someone who has seen the movie 20+ times, I am throughly enjoying the book as well

It's a good book. Movie is better.

Movie is better. If I recall correctly, the movie was pretty true to the book.

I love it, have read multiple times.

He does spend an inordinate amount of time talking about the cavernous vagina of Sonnys side piece. Made me think he might have had experience with that.

Was creepy

The movie is far superior to the book -- Coppola as director is a much more talented stylist than Puzo as prose writer. The novel reads like a very long magazine article: long on detail, short on character insight. The entire Lucy Mancini section should have been cut (it's in there b/c Puzo was trying to write a bestseller, and he was convinced a bestseller had to have a major female interest. Why didn't he write about Kay or Connie?).

Still, if you are a big time fan of the movie you should read the novel. You will be fascinated by the detail, and the book does make a bit clearer aspects of the film that some viewers have found a bit confusing (such as Michael's rationale for killing Sollozzo)

i would also recommend reading “The Family Corleone”.

it’s a prequel written many years later (by someone other than Puzo, but i forget who).
not as good as The Godfather, but still a good read