Is it a good book? Is it any different from the movie or is it pretty similar?
2007-08-23 09:51:54 · 4 answers · asked by Nikita K 2 in Arts & Humanities ➔ Books & Authors
A fascinating book, a history of gangs in the slums of Manhattan from the early 19th-century on, in great detail, with hundreds of stories that never find their way into conventional histories. It's a little dismaying to find Herbert Asbury claiming that the era of gangs is over -- this in 1927! -- but his book is about a different era and kind of criminality than the prohibition mobs. It should be fairly easy to find; my copy is a 1989 reprint.
Naturally, the film has been cobbled together from anecdotes from varied decades, and its history should not be taken literally, much less its addition of a rather unfortunate fictional plot.
2007-08-23 11:57:07 · answer #1 · answered by obelix 6 · 1⤊ 0⤋
The film was loosely based on the 1928 book, so I'd say it is different from the movie.
2007-08-23 17:08:23 · answer #2 · answered by knight1192a 7 · 0⤊ 0⤋
Like most books- it's better than the Movie (although the Leonardo DiCaprio character doesn't look quite as handsome... :) ).
2007-08-23 17:02:19 · answer #3 · answered by Joseph, II 7 · 0⤊ 0⤋
leonardo !!!!!!!!! the movie is definity better
2007-08-23 16:55:24 · answer #4 · answered by Anonymous · 0⤊ 1⤋