Customer Reviews

Mafia Wife: My Story of Love, Murder, and Madness

5 star:		(5)
4 star:		(4)
3 star:		(3)
2 star:		(3)
1 star:		(8)

 

 

Ok. I read lots of books about LCN and this one so far was the worst. It was poorly written. I know she tried to make the book sound very personal but it just came off that she threw this thing together. Then at the end she says it took her three years to complete this? I could have written her story in less time. The funny thing is, she had help. Ugh!!! It is so repetitive I got tired of reading the same words over and over again. She contradicts herself all the time and constantly goes into self pity.

Truth is, everything she says is absolutely taken with skepticism because she even says she picked up things in bits in pieces (the life, that is). She just put stuff together in her mind from certain things that may have overheard, saw, etc.

If they make a movie out of this one it will have to be pretty cheesy. If you're a mafia fan, read it just to put a notch on the booklist. Otherwise, skip it.

I don't know what book the Editorial Review read, but they missed a few important points. There was more self-pity in the first 35 pages than in most self-help books on the market. After the fall of the old Mafia families every goodfellow, associate, wannabe, relative or FBI agent that could, started writing books. Most have some information of value as does this. My problem is Lynda Milito still doesn't get it. She is the absolute personification of criminal thinking errors and contradiction. A great deal of time is spent venting at Sammy Gravano as the lowest of the low, which will get no argument from me. She forgets there are widows, children and loved ones who might say the same about her lowlife husband. (Who by the way, she keeps insisting was really a sensitive, caring guy, unless you crossed him!)

In any event, if you are truly interested in the Mafia cult, battered women, criminal thinking errors and want to do a quick Hare Scale on Psychopaths this is the book for you. Read between the lines, she's not sorry for anything but her own inconveniences.

Lynda Milito would like to have you believe that she is a tragic figure that has suffered because her loving husband was murdered. She would like to have you believe that she is the victim and that the evil monsters of organized crime are to blame.

I'm getting kind of tired of these lurid tales of scummy people writing about organized crime. Ms. Milito's husband was a cold-blooded murderer who drew his wife and his entire family into a life of theft, robbery and general lawlessness. Ms. Milito was fully aware of what was happening and lived an extravegant lifestyle while her husband was alive.

Finally, it did catch up to her and she snivels about how the other mobsters hurt her. What did she expect?

The people whom I would recommend the book to would be to teenage girls who are thinking of dropping out of school. Ms. Milito's life is a great example of what happens to you when you don't take education seriously.

This is a book about a whiner with grammar issues. In fact, she whines so much, her book gave me a headache. Her mother hated her, she hated school,she has no friends, her husband beat her, her husband was a criminal...whine whine whine. This could all be fascinating stuff, but because she whines instead of telling a story, it's boring. You just know the reason she has no friends is because no one wants to hear about it all the time.

I have no sympathy for this woman. All she did was make bad choices. I can't figure out if the purpose of this book was a bid for sympathy or to complain about Sammy Gravano, who, for all his faults, seemed to find a better writer, as well as editor, for his own book. Her throughts are convoluted, out of sequence and I doubt she's as innocent as tries to appear.

Skip this book or get it from the library. Even though I only paid fifty cents, I still feel like I wasted money.

I have never written a review on a book in my life, but this one so enraged me, I sought out a place to state my view.

I won't expound on the whining, as others have covered that quite accurately. But what really burned my biscuits about Lynda is her feigned ignorance of how her husband earned his money. She had at least two independent confirmations from friends that her husband had become a made man in the mob. She even admitted to seeing a bandaid on his cut finger, which corroborated their story. Her response? They must be crazy. Is she color blind? The big, waving red flags were near impossible to ignore, but she somehow claims to have done it. She sees her husband brutally attack a man in their yard, in front of her children, yet has the gall to proclaim him a good and loving parent. She should have had her children taken away fron her for not protecting them from such a lunatic criminal. To make her statements even more outrageous, she knowingly participated in some of his illegal money making schemes. In fact, her 'honeymoon' was financed by stealing from the telephone company! Hey, there's a clue.

For all her whining about her 'horrible' childhood, she also casually mentions many positive things, such as the nose job she had done, and the vacations the family went on. These details are incongruous with the image she paints of a poor waif of a child wearing hand me down clothing (albeit high end label stuff) and being abused by her mother, and not defended by her father.

In my search for a place to vent my view, I found an interview she did on Court TV where her parting shot was, "Buy my book!" I also stumbled on her web site which you have to pay to view. For someone who claims to have had no clue what was going on in her husband's life, she lists lots of tantalizing come ons for joining her site.

Don't waste your money on this book! I bought my copy used and will be selling mine soon for .01. I am only grateful that my purchase of her book did not put one thin dime into her greedy hand.

This is the best advice I can give; If you want to read the book either get it from the library or buy it for under $5. This is not a book you will need to or want to read again. You can read all the other well written negative comments, I will not repeat the same points here. If every wife of a Mafioso wrote a book there would be a book written every minute. Anyone who gives this book 5 stars is probably not reading the book for its information on the Mafia but simply interested on the "woman" perspective of it and probaly watch the Life time channel. I am not saying there is anything wrong with that just tring to explain why this book would be given 5 stars. These are the same people that probably found Mafia Marriage highly exciting.

I did not find this book as enjoyable as I had hoped. I think the author was very slanted and presented her side of the story in a self serving way. Really a disappointment.

Who edited this book? It sounds like the writings of a 9th grade dropout. Disorganized and full of self-pity! Furthermore, this woman seems like she has no sense of self-esteem at all...I mean, why would you stay with a man who beats you (her boyfriends at the time the book was written) when you were fortunate enough to escape your first husband who beat you? She starts off the book wanting everyone to feel sorry for her, yet she made poor life choices. She chose to drop out of high school, therefore making herself dependent on a man, and usually the men who want dependent women are abusive, and that is what she married. Now she writes a book hoping to cash in on her husbands' (and hers) less than honest lifestyle because "Sammy Gravano did it."

This is a good book to give a teenager daughter who thinks that her only aspiration in life should be to find a flashy man who will support her (i.e. drug-dealer, thief, other low-life).

The book itself was so disorganized with bits and pieces of information on events that took place here and there, and some of the years seemed way off. She talks about her daughter being in college while the same time her son is 11, when the kids are not far enough apart in age for that to have happened.

My advice, get it from the library like I did, don't waste your money.

This book was extremely disappointing. The first quarter of the book was filled with boring trivial facts about her younger years (pre-Louie) time. The only information she gives about her husband being a hit man is NOT from personal experiences but from passages written in Sammy Gravano's biography and newspapers. The author seemed to have a vendetta against her family and continued to complain about her family and how hard life is for her. "Woe is me"....please!

Oh man.
I picked this book up on vacation, intending it to be a good read...if anything something to pass the time. I have a huge interest in the Mafia and have for quite some time....however this book blew it for me. I don't think I made it past page 50...in fact I think I read the first 50 pages half a dozen times. I couldn't believe how poorly this book was written!! On top of that, like others have stated, it was so repetitive! I was shocked to say the least. I believe there to be many ways to have a book sound very much like the author, despite the authors ability to write a book, which clearly was not done with this book!!