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Original Title:	Wiseguy
ISBN:	0671723227 (ISBN13: 9780671723224)
Edition Language:	English
Characters:	Henry Hill
Literary Awards:	Edgar Award Nominee for Best Fact Crime (1987)

Wiseguy Mass Market Paperback | Pages: 320 pages

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"Wiseguy" is 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. "Wiseguy" is 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.

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Title	:	Wiseguy
Author	:	Nicholas Pileggi
Book Format	:	Mass Market Paperback
Book Edition	:	First Edition
Pages	:	Pages: 320 pages
Published	:	September 1st 1990 by Pocket (first published January 1985)
Categories	:	Nonfiction. Crime. True Crime. Mystery. Biography. History. Autobiography. Memoir

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Same old, same old..., over-rated. Or just not as good, maybe, as the movie.

Way Overrated! I truly thought this book would live up to the reviews but obviously whoever has read this and rated it the best mafia book of all time, has not read The Godfather. This was a halfway entertaining novel that was more of an autobiography. The only reason I continued reading was because the reviews were so I'd I thought the book would redeem itself, though it never did. You want a good mafia book, read some Mario Puzo.



I first read this when it came out in the mid 80s. I was 70 or 80 pages into it when Henry Hill first mentioned his niteclub on Queens Boulevard,The Suite. At that point I realized I had worked in Henry's club as a musician in the early 1970s. I remembered Henry (never knew his last name) standing at the end of the bar most nights watching the action and hanging out with his friends. Of course at that point the book grabbed my total interest and I finished it in a few hours. It's arguably the

Funny like I'm a clown?

A deeper look into the story of Henry Hill and his life and involvement with the New York City Mafia from the 1950s-90s. The beginning of the book is nearly exactly like its film version (Goodfellas, a classic in my opinion), but if you keep going the story takes new turns not shown in the film, with additional schemes and characters. I enjoyed the different perspectives, with narratives from the writer, Karen (Henry's wife), FBI detectives, and mostly Henry himself. If you have an interest in

Of course my reading of this book was heavily influenced by the fact that Ive seen the movie Goodfellas about 10 times. I can totally understand how someone read this and thought I have to make this story into a movie. Henry Hill is larger than life, and his journey from a little boy helping out at a cab stand to becoming one of the top players in the Lucchese crime family is incredible to read about. He tells the story with such wit and cleverness that entire paragraphs of his words were used