After reading Mario Puzo’s “Godfather” ,the rest of his books just
don’t manage to match up to it. Sure this is a good
book in its own
sense and all that but it doesn’t match up in the least to the
Godfather. It starts with 4 friends(Merlyn,Cully,Jordan and Diane)
gambling at a hotel cum
casino. While Cully and Diane work at the place
the other two have come there simply to
gamble. Then one night Jordan
wins 400,000 $ in baccarat and pops off himself. Then onwards, Diane is
totally ignored and and the book focuses primarily on Merlyn and Cully
to some extent. Merlyn by the way is a budding writer whose first book
flopped.Merlyn gets married,starts taking bribes, gets caught and moves
to Hollywood when his second books becomes a runaway success. He has an
extramarital love affair with a part time actress(Jannelle) who seems
to sleep with everybody(excuse the pun) both men and women. Finally
Cully dies as well as Merlyn’s brother and Jannele as well.Merlyn
survives and the conclusion is that he proceeds to the same casino
where he met Jordan and Cully to gamble. It’s a book that can be read
when there are no suitable alternatives but otherwise one would be
better off reading The Godfather.