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The holiday book-dump is upon me. Between certificates to stores, books given to me, and three weeks of uninterrupted free time, I've got a lot of reading done and to do.
I'm now on Mario Puzo's "The Godfather". Got the movie trilogy collection last year and the novel this year. It's very good, and a very different experience than the movie. It's a much more zoomed-out picture of his fictional 1940s crime family where the movie was more exclusively driven by Brando and Pacino's characters. I was amused to read a good chunk of pages on the criminal struggle for control of Hollywood and showbusiness that was left out of the film version.
Umberto Eco's "The Name of the Rose" will follow. I need to read a book that I don't already know the story of. Both Eco and the book itself have been praised by literary consumers that I trust, so he's next.
Stephen King's "The Drawing of the Three" is next after that. The Gunslinger didn't particularly appeal to me, but it wasn't bad. The Dark Tower gets so much acclaim that I'm going to have to read another one of its installments before I decide whether or not to read them all or drop it.
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