The Last Don

Since the matter concerns with the "DON", let me put a disclaimer in the beginning itself.....
This post has nothing to do with "The Don", my room mate. Its about the novel.

The Last Don, written by Mario Puzo in 1996 is the second book I have read about the mafia, the first being the evergreen" The Godfather".

lemme confess that i had great expectation from this novel as it was natural after having read the godfather . As with Da vinci code, i have read godfather many times and it looks as fresh each time.But "the last don" did not stand upto my expectation.

The Don Domenico Clericuzio here did not show the personality, the wisdom, and was not shown in great light as Don Vito Corleone of godfather. Never once i ever felt in awe with him. And even though there were ample negative shades of DOn corleone,I felt a sense of respect for him. This is not for the Don Clericuzio or any other character.

The storyline itself diverge too much on the film industry rather than on the mafia industry. And finaly there were too many details which made reading less interesting.

In effect, it was like watching Sanjay Leela Bhansali movie "Saawanriya" after having watched "Black"...