The book “Wiseguy” is about Henry Hill a member of the Lucchese crime family.The book itself tells a different perspective of the “Mob”. Its seen through the eyes of Nicholas Pileggi the author but told to by Hill himself . It displays an interesting outlook,Mob movies books characters have fascinated the world for so long and its the belief that their is another world more exhilarating and exciting fast paced and the common person is just looking to escape the real world into a book or another life.

Again, I don’t remember much about the movie but I got the impression that Rosenthal and Spilotro (I’ve been saying “Spiltoro” all these years, my bad) were closer than they actually were. One ran gambling, the other did robberies and they kind of interacted. Individually, their stories were interesting but really nothing special. And the heart of the tale: Geri, Rosenthal’s wife, was destructive and this played into his tendencies in what was an abusive, loveless marriage with two poor kids at the center of it. It was kind of sad more than anything. Pileggi does a good job of centering the story around mob activity in Vegas; that’s obviously why most of us are reading it anyway. But the real story is the triangle between those three and I just found that depressing. As many people have pointed out previously, what sets this book apart is the outright bluntness in the delivery. It wastes no time trying to water the cold, hard facts down or romanticize the lifestyle of a mafioso. We're talking about people who would murder their best friends and probably not feel too guilty about it afterward. It's a very chilling thought and it makes Henry's desire to want to be a part of the life absolutely mystifying. This is an overrated book. But don't worry, all is not lost. It just needs to be re-purposed and moved into a different genre.After reading this book I am sure going to watch the movie goodfellas(as also it has a high rating on IMDb). Joo Casino is extremely cautious about your safety and provides you with a safe gambling environment. You can see for yourself by reading the terms and conditions of this online casino. They are aimed to protect both sides: clients and operators. We at Joo Casino value your trust, so we keep client information private and don't share it with anyone It wasn’t that Henry was a boss. And it had nothing to do with his lofty rank within a crime family or the easy viciousness with which hoods from Henry’s world are identified. Henry, in fact, was neither of high rank nor particularly vicious; he wasn’t even tough as far as the cops could determine. What distinguished Henry from most of the other wiseguys who were under surveillance was the fact that he seemed to have total access to all levels of the mob world.” urn:oclc:873216236 Republisher_date 20131030175837 Republisher_operator [email protected] Scandate 20131029213835 Scanner scribe3.sanfrancisco.archive.org Scanningcenter sanfrancisco Source And when you finally get to the end, and see how Hill escapes a bullet in the head (that was issued to everyone else who knew of the Lufthansa heist) to become a Federal employee, you wonder... is this all okay and correct that this should happen? People are killed en route to this, millions of dollars of property and cash are redistributed among wiseguys, and yet the prime mover becomes another man in lieu of the one he never was. I am not sure.

The next Den of Geek book club choice is The Girl With All the Gifts by M.R. Carey. Kaci will be reviewing it on Monday 15 th September. Nicholas Pileggi admitted somewhere that the screenplay for Goodfellas, co-written with Martin Scorsese, improved on his book: it's more succinct, more impactful. He was right.The book also covers Rosenthal's stormy marriage with Las Vegas Showgirl Geri McGee and her affairs. Visiting a casino entails more than simply getting in a car and driving there; there are also the difficulties of dealing with a big number of people, smoking, and possibly losing money. It reads more like a mixture of an MTV True Life episode mixed in with some History Channel narration than it does like a story about an ambitious mobsters rise and fall in the land of ol' Las Vegas. The book is focused primarily on Frank "Lefty" Rosenthal, the notorious casino strongman and "skimmer" who, with the help of Frank Culotta, Tony Spilotro, and others managed to make himself and the Chicago outfit a fortune with his thumb on the gambling operations at The Sands and The Fremont during the 1970's.

This is the story of Henry Hill, who was part of the mob in New York City from the 1950s-80s until he was arrested and became an informant for the FBI. This book chronicles Henry's involvement with the mob, how he got in, how he became successful, and how he got out. He is oddly likable and it's funny because even knowing he was basically a crime lord, I was very disappointed in him when he started cheating on his wife.While Pileggi sometimes includes contradictory testimony from antagonists to the criminals, he does not give any guideposts to let you know who is the bigger bull-crapper. Thus I am not sure how well researched this book is, though Pileggi seems to have have interviewed different people besides Rosenthal.