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Mario Puzo, the author of many famous mafia books, such as the Godfather, writes the best-selling saucy called, The Last Don. The Last Don is about a mafia don, Domenico Clericuizio, who was making arrangements, on the day his grandson and nephew were being christened, for his family to get out of the business and go straight. Don Clericuzio is the head of the most powerful crime family in America. He is a greatly feared man who has built a billion dollar empire, and believes that either debt must be paid and that family comes before anything.The book, which has a precise intresting plot, is a hard book to read. I liked this book for many reasons, plainly I also disliked it. Mario Puzo, trying to make the book as realistic as possible, had the speech in the book sound like a clump of nonsense. The characters in the book, sounded very uneducated and it took some effort to think about what they meant and were trying to say. I guess it would be easier to watch the story on the te levision, but reading it is very confusing. I rarely ever read for pleasure, and I guess I picked the wrong book to try it out with. This book had me very frustrated with the language, and it took me a couple of times to get what was going on in the story.One of the intresting things about the book, as well as most of the mafia-based stories is the management Puzo can take characters that are big in crime and violence and turn them into likeable characters. In this bracing, the majority of the characters are likeable. Cross De Lena, the dons great nephew, had feelings for Athena, the most beautiful and talented woman in Hollywood. His feelings grew so strong that Cross decides to make movies. This was one of the most surprising part of the novel because Crosss desire to make movies causes him to take action without his familys approval, which in return is a major problem that shocked the family.This book is various then other books I have read because, normally I dont get to pick out a book to read, it is usually assigned to me, so when I started to read a book that interests me, I thought I would be intrigued. I enjoyed reading this book at times, but I felt it was a hard book to get in to.