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Donnie Brasco: My Undercover Life in the Mafia, a True Story By Fbi Agent Libro de bolsillo – 26 enero 1989

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26 enero 1989
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0451157494
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Editorial ‏ : ‎ Penguin (26 enero 1989)
Idioma ‏ : ‎ Inglés
Libro de bolsillo ‏ : ‎ 416 páginas
ISBN-10 ‏ : ‎ 0451157494
ISBN-13 ‏ : ‎ 978-0451157492
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This is the book that a rather underrated film is based upon and it's by far the most interesting mob book I've ever read. Goodfellas, Casino, The Irishman, forget about it. This book is far better.

Rather than the self-justifying and smug prose of the others and their exaggerations, this book is well measured and objective. It gives you a far better insight into this world, too. It's also got a happy ending, which makes a change.

Reading this, it makes you wonder why anyone would become a mobster, as there are only 3 outcomes: jail, informer, or prison. It's also a vicious and unpleasant world where everyone is trying to rip everyone else off and no one can even trust their friends.

There are quite a few differences between film and book, with the film getting the tone right, even if not all of the facts are as they are in the book. The film should be much better appreciated.

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It's the greatest deep-cover operation of all time but only a so-so book

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A very, very difficult book to review.

First things first: this is the greatest deep-cover mafia operation in history, and Joe Pistone is both an American hero and a model of emotional strength, courage, and moral clarity. He lived and worked amid a sea of treacherous murderers for six years, risking his life every day. And he did it all for peanuts. For that, he deserves the Presidential Medal of Freedom.

That said, although the book is interesting for mafia junkies like me, it drags for long stretches. Of course, I understand that daily mafia life isn't all shootouts and stickups, but so much of the book is dedicated to repeating humdum conversations that Donnie had with Lefty over the most banal stuff you can imagine: Lefty's colds, his hatred of air conditioning, his insistence that people pay for his plane tickets, his lack of respect from higher-ups, etc. Still, it does yield some insight into Lefty as a person -- particularly the fact that he was mostly a sad loser who was always broke and who cleaved unto his image as a "wiseguy" to make him think he was a somebody. But on the whole, Lefty just wasn't a very interesting guy. Kind of pathetic, actually. I would have liked to read a lot more about Tony Mirra, Caesar Bonventre, and some of the more-interesting Bonanno figures.

Further, the book was very skimpy on details of important murders. It concludes the chapter on the Colombos by telling us that the leader of Donnie's crew, Jilly Greca, got whacked two years later, but it doesn't really go into the details of the hit other than to say that he was a suspected snitch. After reading a few chapters about Donnie's time in the Colombo crew, I wanted a little more than that. And why didn't we get the specifics of Tony Mirra's murder? That's something I'd love to know. But the biggest letdown of all was the treatment of the so-called three capos' murder in May 1981, which the book mentions only in passing. Of course, maybe the higher-ups kept Donnie away from the topic until after it was done, but surely Pistone had to learn a lot of details after the fact. Why weren't they in the book? Plus, the book never really explained the source of the beef between the Sonny Red faction (Sonny Red, Philly Lucky, and Dominick Trinchera) and the pro-Rastelli faction. In fact, we learned very little about the three capos at all. Disappointing.

Also, whoever wrote the book chose to relay the conversations in a stream-of-consciousness style without a lot of attribution, so it's not always clear who's speaking. And that's exacerbated by the mob dialect, in which guys will often quote other people without making that clear. In short, you really have to pay close attention to the dialogue to understand who's saying what, and most of the conversations don't have any significant payoff at the end.

In sum, the book doesn't seem to capture the magnitude of the operation. My advice is this: if you're a mob fan, buy it. You need to have it under your belt. But it could have been a lot better. In fact, if my review were based on content alone, I'd have given it three stars. I threw in a fourth because the operation is such a monumental achievement. Frankly, Pistone would do well to re-write the book with a different ghostwriter. It'd probably be a lot better.

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California Dreaming

Be a Wiseguy and Buy this Book Already!

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I hate it when people say, "Oh, the book was so much better than the movie!" You know that, most likely, that person is just trying to show off by implying that he is a "reader" and not a "watcher." In other words, he's more sophisticated than you. Well, I've read a lot of books myself, and I can tell you that there are a lot of lousy books out there, just like there are a lot of lousy movies. But like I've said a million times, books and movies are different media, and so comparing them is really worse than comparing apples and oranges.

But in this case, you can rightfully say that "The book is so much better than the movie!" but that's not for lack of trying by the film of the same name. Naturally, Johnny Depp was dynamite -- would you expect any different? -- and Al Pacino was the perfect choice to play Lefty, although I can only make that assertion after reading this top-notch true-crime book. But the only problem with the movie really: there was no way that anyone could fit this story into a two-hour film; it really requires at least a mini-series to tell most of the stories in this riveting read.

And there are more side stories going on here than seemingly even the tall tales that the "wiseguys" tell themselves. You've got Joseph Pistone, an FBI agent fearful to wear a wire most of the time -- can you blame him? -- having to remember later all of these conversations, and that surely must have been difficult. There weren't just many conversations, but most of those conversations were filled with red herrings and non-sequitors, which are probably more difficult to remember after the fact. How do you reconstruct nonsense?

You'll learn lots while reading this book: lingo and protocol to start. But if you really pay attention, you should think while reading, "Wow! This is just like any other American business really, outside of people getting whacked." Bosses make bad decisions and suck-ups agree with those decisions, mostly to the detriment of those that are trying to really do their jobs. In this sense, there isn't much difference. Mr. Pistone even alludes to this himself at one point in the book, discussing how "capos are always right, even when they're not."

I could go on and on about how "brave" Mr. Pistone is, or what a "hero" he is as well. In reality, that would be a waste of time because it goes without saying. There's no way in hell that I would have done what he did, not for all of the money in the world. And he was very poorly paid while doing it, although of course he is now probably a millionaire, although he had no idea at that time that was how his fortunes would go. More than likely, he was probably just happy getting out alive, and he would have been more than satisfied being poor while living out that life.

I liked this book so much that I immediately purchased "Unfinished Business" by Mr. Pistone. I'm sure that book won't disappoint either, as this book gets my highest possible rating: I'm going a strong 6 today.

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Unique, to say the least

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Donnie Brasco Review

It’s a fascinating story. I thoroughly enjoyed reading it and it’s clearly one of the best mafia biographies. But I do get the feeling he’s playing it a little safe in his writing, like there’s something unspoken bubbling beneath the surface. Maybe some darknesses he’s not willing to reveal. He mentions punching a hole through his bedroom door one time when he’s home with his family. But he never says what made him mad, or if his violence was influenced by his criminal guise. Maybe he’d need a therapist to figure it out himself. But if someone can con ten dozen mob associates for years, he can easily con a reader if he wants to. Maybe he’s being dead earnest, but I’d have no way of knowing.

Still, it certainly is an interesting story, and told well. Few people have had this kind of access into the mob, and fewer still were on the side of the fbi, so you’re getting a bonafide unique perspective. He’s no philosopher though, and he doesn’t pontificate much on the psychological toll such an unbelievable job must take. The only real insight into the struggle between “good” and “evil” is that soldiers on the street might not be the smartest guys in the world. Not to say that the FBI are pure either, the FBI takes all the money the undercover agents make and funnels it right to the top. They’re profiting off of crime in their own right.

If Pistone wasn’t such an iron will, it might have been a deeper story. Despite hanging out with these people 18 hours a day, working with them for years, often even living together, Brasco doesn’t seem to ever feel for these people, or waiver in his commitment to the law. He sets up all his best friends to possibly get murdered by the mob for harboring an agent, and Joe doesn’t much care. Joseph Pistone is a stone cold gangster in his own right, just playing for a different team.

Sure they’re bad guys he’s taking down, there’s no argument against that. But saying “these people should go down,” and living a fake persona for years to make it happen are different categories; not many people can do it, and fewer still would. So like I said, this is a unique book. And worth a read.

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Much better than the movie...

Revisado en Canadá el 22 de mayo de 2022

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The book was more harrowing than the movie because he was undercover for almost 6 years, you don't get that time scale in the movie. Pistone had so many close calls but through quick thinking and acting like a Wiseguy he made it through. The movie glosses over a lot and what happens to which character is often amalgamated or changed in the movie to focus more on Donnie and Lefty. The original undercover mission was only suppose to be 6 months but through Pistone's dedication to the mission and hard work, kept getting extended to almost 6 years, to the point where he was about to be inducted into the family and become a "Made" guy.

In this book you get a good sense of how Wiseguys think and why they are so dangerous. Even though Left and Sonny Black were fond of Donnie and he often stayed at their homes, when you read the novel you will understand that if they ever found out about Donnie while he was still undercover you can be sure that it would probably be a very gruesome ending for Donnie Brasco, regardless of the comradery between them. So imagine living with that kind of threat for almost 6 years, so in the criminal underworld your their friend until they're not, which in Donnie Brasco's case could happen in a blink of an eye.

If you liked the movie get the book and read the real story and you'll be amazed at the set of you_know_what on this guy.

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