You've read Nothing then!

It was one fine Sunday morning my father out of now where posed a question while I was savoring my “hand-made” coffee, Have you read “The godfather”, by Mario Puzo? I was caught off guard, as I was imbued to the daily routine of, Have you decided what to do after B-Tech? Have you gone through the article in today’s newspaper titled “Auto Rickshaw’s Son clears CA”?  :/ :P

No, I said, was I supposed to? My father gave a look as in You suck! He said, with a frown “Then you have read nothing” and he left. I at that time, was really into Sidney Sheldon’s works, and considered every other author as a “far cry from the original”. Out of curiosity I reached the shelf where the novels rested and picked The Godfather, and went through the gist of the story at the back of the book, and was “hooked”.

I went on to read the novel for a consecutive 17 days (couldn’t give more than 3hrs a day :P), one would be awestruck by the way Mario Puzo writes, if it wasn’t for Godfather, he would not have penned a classic masterpiece, which was then made into a movie eventually bagging a record 7 Oscars! And so did the sequel to the movie.

 

Don Corleone is one of the powerful characters I have ever read about, though a fiction one could feel his presence, so powerful, so ruthless and fearful.

"Known for the power he wields and the fear he instils, people are in awe at his aura and clout-some respect Him (‘H’ this is for a reason), some fear Him, and some oblige for the want of an option"

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The book so gives you a deep insight into the Mafia world, which has its roots in Sicily, but more explicitly into the art of contemporary writing. Ranging from the mafia in Sicily to the love, gamble and sex in America and most importantly the Don’s influence, which reaches every level of the American Society the book, has everything one could possibly imagine or rather may run out of imagination.

If it were not for my dad I would have never read a novel, “so turbulent, so exciting, and highly entertaining”. More or less the credit goes to my dad himself for buying the book.

Here are few of the quotes that possibly may not be penned for a centuries to come, which could have been written only by Mario Puzo.

• “He has seen the light of life die in the man’s eye as clearly as the candle goes out”
• “Fannuci (a character in the novel) never retreats, I will reason with him”
• “Time erodes gratitude more quickly than it erodes Beauty”
• “Only the Great Don could steal a stalemate from this terrible defeat and if it were to come his Death”
• “Every piece of shit, every man eats; every single day in his life is fucking personal”
• “Revenge is a dish that tastes best, when it’s cold”
• “Though women certainly will be saints in heaven, we men burn in hell"

As my Dad said, if one who is imbued to reading fiction, if you haven’t read The Godfather then you have read nothing! It might be my Favorite novel of all time, one can speak endlessly about the novel, the protagonist (who is everything in the novel), but then there is no point in explicitly describing the novel as such on a blog.