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Review title: Don't bother, not even on a dare.
Product review: I had a number of problems with this book. First, the characters weren't believable. Each character was 'perfect' for their part (the brutally efficent hitman, the brilliant and wise don, the beautiful actress). No character inspired interest or empathy. It also seems that Puzo has had a very bad experience w/ Hollywood (specifically books being turned into movies). He uses a subplot to expound on the evil of Hollywood producers. It's interesting, but he should have made it a bit more subtle, rather than using 3 pages of mainly canned dialogue to get his point across. The plot in and of itself wasn't too hot either, and the subplots were only marginally related to the main plot. When the big secret is finally introduced, you can't help but think 'Oh. So what?' because the build-up was so poor. Finally, the ending of Cross' confict w/ Loddstone was too simple... too 'deus ex machina' for my tastes. Not worth your time at all.
