I read this book after i had seen the movie numerous times (too many to count lol) and i was thinking 'okay this is gonna be like basically reading the movie' ,which it was but you also read things that were never discussed in the movie and a lot of the characters that were involved in some parts of the film were not really involved in the book. I happen to rank 'GOODFELLAS' as one of my all time favorite movies and this is the book it was inspired from. It's about the life of HENRY HILL, it explores everything from his childhood to his life in the mob alongside notorious gangsters such as (Jimmy Conway,Paul Sorvino and Tommy Devito),all the way to life for Henry Hill after he went into the witness protection program.

This book is amazing,it's written as if you are with a group of friends telling stories,it catches your attention and never lets you go and is also a very easy read. A firsthand account of the secret world of the mob,Wiseguyis more compelling than any novel.ĪMAZING BOOK that inspired an AMAZING FILM.can't go wrong =) The mob is still hunting him for what he reveals inWiseguy: hundreds of crimes including arson, extortion, hijacking, and the $6 million Lufthansa heist, the biggest successful cash robbery in U.S. To be a wiseguy was to own the world.' - Henry HillWiseguyis Nicholas Pileggi's remarkable bestseller, the most intimate account ever printed of life inside the deadly high-stakes world of what some people call the Mafia.Wiseguyis Henry Hill's story, in fascinating, brutal detail, the never-before-revealed day-to-day life of a working mobster - his violence, his wild spending sprees, his wife, his mistresses, his code of honor.Henry Hill knows where a lot of bodies are buried, and he turned Federal witness to save his own life. Being a wiseguy was better than being President of the United States. 'At the age of twelve my ambition was to become a gangster.I'm sure if Henry was talking to me in real life, it would be different but with the small font and one or two full pages of detail, i found myself just going over them. The only parts of the book that I didn't really care for was the many many details that were like 1 or two pages long that I found myself skipping. (I don't recall if the author ever mentioned it) But it does make me wonder if the author of the book actual found the other people that said their point of view (Karen and Linda) in the book and interviewed them like he did with Henry, or if he just picked them up from details that Henry gave. I like how it changes view points from characters. Now for a review on the book, I like the way it was written.

(Stabbing a guy in the first scene- eFor once, the movie didn't ruin the book, they are equally fun to watch and read. I could never understand why she would always watch it.

Every since I was born, my mom has loved the Goodfellas movie.

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