 Hey guys, it's Julia and welcome back to my channel and for today's video we're wearing a hat. We're going to be talking about The Godfather by Mario Puzo. Basically the first bit of this video is going to be spoiler free and then I'm going to do like a short spoilery section at the end so feel free to leave for the spoilery section or just watch the spoilers whatever you want. So we're going to be talking about this book today. This is an adult crime kind of book. It's really hard for me to explain but it's about the mafia, the Italian mafia. It's about this family, mainly follow one family in particular but then there is all five families who meet and they all have like their own dawn which is kind of like the leader. Basically this is full of crime. It's obviously scenes where people get killed or people get abused so keep that in mind. There's definitely trigger warnings for abuse within this book and just general violence so keep that in mind. Basically I did not know what to expect going into this at all with books like this where the movie is such a classic. I worry about the book because like with Hannibal and like Red Dragon and stuff the movie is incredible like and that adaptations are so clever and well thought out but the book was just average in my opinion. Like the writing was not the greatest but the story was still good. That's the only thing. That's how I felt about those books. I was worried that it was going to be the same with The Godfather and I had not seen the movie so I'm hoping to do that soon but I didn't want to watch it before this and then you know compare it. I was actually really pleasantly surprised with this. I can't believe nobody talks about this. Like I was reading this and I was like how come no one talks about this? Like on booktube in person? Nothing. Like I hear no one talk about this. Like I've never seen a wrap up where someone's mentioned this book and if you're a lover of just like crime books or just powerful men and things like that and you know men who love power and or other people who bow down a certain person things like that. I think you'd definitely like this. So the writing was spot-on. I would 10 out of 10 recommend the writing. It was really good. It was really thorough. Like I don't know if it was just me but I felt like I was reading this forever. I think it's because the font is like kind of small. Like it's like a it's smaller than like most books I think in my opinion and then there's like no spacing. Like there's no like spacing or anything. So it did take me a while but it's only about 430 pages so it's not too bad but I felt like the descriptions were just so well done and again I was reading and I was like how come no one talks about this? Are you kidding me? I was really impressed by the writing and honestly it's split up into like book number one, book number two and it goes on from there. And I didn't know this but it's a series which I think I'm good with the first book right now but maybe one day I'll pick up the others. It definitely leaves on a point where I think you would be satisfied with the story so if you're worried to get into a new series or whatever I don't think that's the case. Yeah but again it just felt like I was reading it for a long time but it was really thorough and I can't believe all like the development. Like I felt like in 430 pages there was a lot of like character development. There was a lot of just like I can't even explain it. Like the writing was just so fantastic and talking about the characters I don't want to say. Well I mean okay we have the Dawn who is the head of the- how do you pronounce this? The core- core- I'm gonna put it on here because I'm not able to say this. Um it's probably the easiest pronunciation I'm just screwing up but this family was like the main family of the book so the Dawn I loved hearing about him. I thought he was so interesting just how everyone had so much respect for him. Like it's not even that they were terrified of him they just respected him so much and then there were some people who were like fearful of him but when he did something for you he in in return you- if he ever needed something he would cash it in which it reminds me a lot of- this is weird. Um a show that I watch it's a- it's a soap opera like your mom's probably watch it like you- like if you're a mom you watch it no I'm kidding but um or your grandparents watch it etc maybe you watch it but the Young and the Restless it reminded me a lot of like Victor Newman and his power and I don't know it just really reminded me of that and how you really like he doesn't directly threaten you all the time but it's like sometimes it's just like underlying or like you got to read between the lines like he will net- Victor actually does openly threaten sometimes but the Dawn never really openly threatened anybody um sometimes it was really implied though just saying but he also reminded me of like Rumpel Stillskin from Once Upon a Time like the version that they did of him in that show because he was making deals and he was um you know if you did something for me um like if I did something for you you'd have to do something for me in return it's kind of what that was all about but yeah the characters I love the Dawn was really interesting but my favorites throughout the book were Sunny I think he was absolutely just so interesting to me he was one of the ones that had like a really big temper that's kind of how he's described throughout the book is that he's very temperamental he's the Dawn's one of the Dawn's sons and I just love Sunny like that's not his actual like like they all have like their Italian names and then their shortened names um I thought Michael was really interesting as well um he was kind of like the what like how do I explain it Michael was just really interesting like I didn't think of him much at the beginning like I was kind of like oh yeah like he's fine like I like I preferred Sunny and like the Dawn and things like that but I don't know Michael kind of grew on me definitely say that so there's some important elements of this book and I won't get into spoilers right now but um there is some deaths and I'm not gonna say anything else but yeah there is some people who died that I didn't really care about so yeah but there was some other characters there was Johnny Fontaine he was like a singer who lost his voice so he went to the dawn for help and he was kind of like you know I can't sing man blah blah blah okay so we kind of get hit story as well um the only thing that I didn't like which I kind of I can't couldn't like I can't even excuse how they talk about women in this book like it's not like every woman but like the guys who are like a part of the mafia a lot of them are like hiring like prostitutes and they call them their whores and one of the characters abuses his wife a lot and that was really hard to read so keep that in mind it's a lot at times yeah so the characters were really good they were all fleshed out like they all had their own stories and there's just so much to say about each character but Sunny was my favorite I also liked Selozo as a villain if you know what I mean I was like I like you but like as a villain you know um there was some scenes I really love which I'll talk about in the spoilers but if you haven't read The Godfather I'd highly recommend it I think the writing is spot on I think the characters are great it has the right amount of crime again if you're sensitive to things like abuse and reading about that please be aware that it's in here um it was like the first page someone like someone's beating the shit out of someone else so just be aware of that the mafia works was really interesting and I've never read a book like this and you know a lot of the characters were Sicilian and Italian and it was just it was really interesting to read I really do want to see the movie and this was just overall like a like I was pleasantly surprised and I'm giving this about a four out of five stars I think it was really good and I would recommend it to people so let's get into spoilers so we can be here all day talking about stuff but I think I'm going to just look at my tabs I didn't have too much but I tabbed like a fair bit of stuff so basically I tabbed Sunny saying Selozo has done me I don't care what it costs I don't care if we have to fight all the five families in New York the tata galley family is going to be wiped out I don't I don't care if we all go down together so Selozo that scene was so cool like I don't know why that was so interesting to me but that scene when they were like he went to the bathroom and he took the gun behind the toilet and they hit it there and he went and he um shot Selozo and that cop at the dinner table who were like totally like assholes and just did a lot of that shit so he shot them and then he had to go away because like he was accused so he kind of had to leave all right so after the murder of Selozo and captain McCluskey look the police captain and lieutenants in every station house in New York City sent out the word there would be no more gambling no more prostitution no more deals of any kind until the murder of captain McCluskey was found okay so that says at the end the five families war of 1946 has begun which I didn't talk about this in the Nossbury section but I found it really interesting how this tied into like world war one and world war two um they also mentioned the black hand which was a terrorist organization um in I forget if it was world war one or world war two I'm a little bit fuzzy on my history but I remember landing about them in history class so I found that really interesting that they like talked about them and then I just have like descriptions of the dawn like are they just 12 short dark slender living in a strange moorish-looking village of Corleone Sicily in Sicily he had been born a veto and a andolini and one strange man came to kill the son of the man they had murdered his mother sent the young boy to America to stay with friends which it's funny because I'm Italian too and I can't like I don't know oh look I don't know I'm more nervous on camera to pronounce things but um I also have what followed this was sickening Sonny began beating the tower in Corleau with his fist cursing him okay so this was interesting so Connie is the dawn's daughter and this guy Carlo was her husband he's the one who was beating her throughout the book which was horrifying to read by the way but Sonny the older brother who has like a temper and he's pretty temperamental he literally like he wouldn't Connie's injured he gets really pissed so this was like Sonny beating the beating him cursing in a thick rage choked voice carl despite his tremendous physique offered no resistance gave no cry for marcia protests so basically he was beating the shit out of him and yeah but I really liked Sonny like I know he did a lot about things like everyone in this book does bad things so don't even like hate on me for liking Sonny but the thing with Sonny was that he really cared about his family and even with this whole book like they cared about their immediate family um and they had so much respect for the dawn which was really interesting but Sonny was just you can tell he was upset because it was his sister and later in the book he goes to um go see um his sister and to try to kill Carlo probably and he gets killed along the way and then it's a discussion of if Carlo knew that Connie called him and if Carlo sent people to kill him and stuff like that Sonny dies from that attack that Carlo could have caused so someone else killed Carlo and not Sonny's wife but the wife of the person who killed Carlo I think it was Michael who killed Carlo I forget but like they're trying to explain to her that like they're they're condoning it because I don't think it's right but they're condoning it because Carlo basically killed Sonny um or it's assumed that he did and that he was beating Connie and like she was getting really badly injured too so it was just horrifying to read that so this might have so much respect for Sonny because he was going to help his sister before he died and he was mad yeah he probably would have killed him when he got if he got there but I don't know I just had a lot of respect for Sonny so his death would make me really sad um yeah I was really upset by Sonny's death so Michael's like the innocent one throughout the book like he's the one that no one really thinks much of um in the dawn family like that's why they send him to kill um Selozo and the captain they send him because he is the less intimidating out of the family like they said Sonny probably would have done a better job but um they would know they would have been more threatened by Sonny than of Michael so they sent Michael to do it so that was interesting especially because Michael later becomes the dawn and we need to talk about how the dawn got shot because I was like speechless like I didn't expect this to happen and it happened pretty early if I remember um so I was like what the hell the dawn got shot and you know through the book throughout the edit like the second half he's making his recovery but he sells their oil business the lawyer Tom Hagan who is also his like right hand man just gets appointed to being his lawyer Michael takes over and he Tom is now Michael's lawyer and yeah Sonny's gone he was really interesting and this is what I really ended up liking about Michael near the end is he said his children um he was saying basically he would follow his father he would care for his children his family his world but his children will go up in a different world they would be doctors artists scientists governors presidents anything at all so I loved that like that he didn't want them to get involved in this world of crime and drugs and money and power and wealth and all the stuff that he was involved in that he grew up in and he wanted his kids to have kind of like a normal family and he would follow his father's example in a way but he didn't want to raise them the way he was raised exactly then basically we have Michael and his wife Kaye who um are now married and stuff obviously I said wife um but sorry that was a blanket um so Connie's pissed when she hears that you know her husband died because of Michael and I think he was really seeking out vengeance for Sonny and I don't know Karlo bothered me so much I didn't really care but it was just Connie gets so pissed off which it was not surprising but I was a little bit I don't know like he treated her so horribly and I get they were married but the way that he treated her was just horrible and so she's yelling and then Kaye defends him and says you know all the stuff like how do you know that the death of your brother wasn't because of Karlo or he was going to like going to see Karlo and how did you know that Karlo didn't know you were talking on the phone and he didn't plan this or whatever so that was really interesting let me know down below if you guys think Karlo did kill Sonny or was Karlo's people let me know what you think yeah so it even says here what if Karlo had been paid to help get Sonny killed them what the don a great man couldn't bring himself to do what he had to do a vengeance since death by killing his daughter's husband what if that finally was too much for him and he made Michael his successor knowing that Michael would take that load off his shoulders would that take guilt would that take the guilt yeah so and at the end it just says then with a profound and deeply will desire to believe to be heard and she had done every day since the murder of Karlo Reezy she said the necessary is first for the soul of Michael Corley okay so that ends with basically Michael's wife Kay saying she was always disturbed that he wouldn't tell her stuff he's not going to tell her about all the deaths he has to go like that all the people he's killed or all the people who attacked his family like they read about in the newspapers like people are dying and stuff but she tries to ask him questions and he says don't ask me about business don't do that he tries to keep the life separated from her which I guess if she did now she would be in danger as well so I kind of get why but at the same time I'm like it's sad that they cannot have a normal marriage and it was sad that he couldn't confide in her about things but near the end she says when she found out about Karlo's death and that her husband killed him first for for a bit again she was defending him and stuff but I think she came to the conclusion at the end that like what I really got from that last line was she was worried every day for a bit she actually leaves him after discovering um she leaves him after discovering what happened with Karlo and I think it was so she leaves him after finding out what happened with Karlo and for a little bit and then they go they find their way back to each other and she says them with a profound and deeply will desire to believe to be heard as she had done every day since the murder of Karlo she had the necessary prayers for the soul of Michael so that was the end of the godfather of a Moria Puzo um please let me know what you thought in the comments down below I would love to hear your thoughts on this book no I haven't watched the movie I will but I wanted to get my thoughts on the book straight first so then I'm not altering my opinions and stuff but I really enjoyed this book definitely suggest it and I hope you guys liked it as well so thank you guys so much for watching today's video if you are new here be sure to click the subscribe button and click the notification bell to be updated for when I post new videos and all that sort of stuff and I'll see you all very soon with a new video bye