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Title: A Goodfella's Guide to New York : Your Personal Tour Through the Mob's Notorious Haunts, Hair-RaisingCrime Scenes, and Infamous Hot Spots by HENRY HILL, BRYON SCHRECKENGOST ISBN: 0-7615-1538-0 Publisher: Three Rivers Press Pub. Date: 22 April, 2003 Format: Paperback Volumes: 1 List Price(USD): $12.95 |
Average Customer Rating: 4 (10 reviews)
Rating: 5
Summary: A Quick Fun Read
Comment: This book is great. Henry Hill takes the reader on an entertaining trip around NYC. He exposes some of the unknown places and gives a whole new look on other famous places.
Rating: 5
Summary: Through a mobster's eyes
Comment: I didn't expect much from this book, but I was pleasantly surprised. There's quite a bit of humor AND information, not just one or the other. I especially like the chapter on STAYING IN. When you read it and you'll understand why.
There's plenty to do in New York city of course, but it's nice to veer off the beaten path.
Rating: 2
Summary: Witness Profiteering Program
Comment: Henry Hill is, of course, the basis of Ray Liotta's character in Scorsese's Goodfellas. He ratted his buddies out, went into FBI hiding, then left the program. Now he plagues the rest of society by shamelessly appearing on the radio (calling into Howard Stern), in bookstores (Wiseguy, this, a cookbook, and another upcoming crime book), movies (basis), and naturally the Internet, with his own website.
Hill comes off as a complete lowlife in Wiseguy, and he still does. As if we're supposed to be endeared toward a loveable wiseguy who has gone straight, he brings us this, his 'guide' to New York.
This is nothing more than another 'inside' book about the New York mob. It basically lists addresses of Mafia hangouts--restaurants, bars, social clubs, etc, etc. He advises you that this place was where so-and-so got whacked, or never, ever look for this one social club, or such a place had great clams, or Gino is buried here, etc, etc. It's so tired, he's so tired, you wish he'd go away.
Henry Hill was not even a made man, and the people he ratted out are mostly dead or in jail, so there is a notable irony in his expose. He's giving you an inside tour of the Mob's New York, yet he's flat out admitting he was so low down the totem pole he's not even worthy of attention from real gangsters. Talk about credibility issues. That Goodfellas is such a great movie is testament to Scorsese's talent as filmmaker. Henry Hill was the subject not because he was interesting (he's basically a lite goon and a weasel) but because he was willing to blab about it.
Don't waste your $ on this one. You can read the juicy parts in a bookstore.
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Title: Jerry Capeci's Gang Land by Jerry Capeci ISBN: 1592571336 Publisher: Alpha Books Pub. Date: 04 November, 2003 List Price(USD): $18.95 |
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Title: The Wiseguy Cookbook: My Favorite Recipes from My Life As a Goodfella to Cooking on the Run by Henry Hill, Priscilla Davis, Nicholas Pileggi ISBN: 0451207068 Publisher: New American Library Pub. Date: October, 2002 List Price(USD): $17.00 |
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Title: Made Men: The True Rise-And-Fal Story of a New Jersey Mob Family by Greg B. Smith ISBN: 0425185516 Publisher: Berkley Pub Group Pub. Date: 04 February, 2003 List Price(USD): $6.99 |
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Title: Gangsters and Goodfellas: Wiseguys, Witness Protection, and Life on the Run by Henry Hill, Gus Russo ISBN: 1590770293 Publisher: M Evans & Co Pub. Date: June, 2004 List Price(USD): $21.95 |
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Title: The Way of the Wiseguy by Joseph D. Pistone ISBN: 0762418397 Publisher: Running Press Pub. Date: 02 March, 2004 List Price(USD): $22.95 |
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