Mob Daughter: The Mafia, Sammy "The Bull" Gravano, and Me! [Hardcover]

I bought this book for two reasons. One being that I read her father's book Underboss. The second being that I watch Mob Wives every single Sunday.

I regret buying this book. Its horrible. Sentences are clipped. Thoughts are all over the place. At one point she goes from talking about her family being arrested to her nephew almost drowning. Like wait...what? The first, and really only time, she mentioned fellow cast mate Renee Graziano was when she said "She throws her fathers name around all the time, me and the girls (referring to Ramona and her sister Roxanne) don't do that." Umm HELLO!?? Are you serious right now?? YOU are always the one throwing around the "check my bloodline" "I'm Sammy the Bull's daughter" "Do you know who my father is?" I found her "story" to be extremely hypocritical. She claims that Ramona has been such an influence in her life and she's "your girl" how come she rarely mention her? She slams Drita for getting with Lee, stating that "you two weren't over" yet on page 188 she says, and I quote "I had accepted the fact that Lee and I were done." Really? Cause her actions, even in season 2, show otherwise. She also kept saying how this book wasn't about her father yet how the Mafia affected her life. I saw none of that really. What I saw was someone that was completely confused, reaping in the benefits of being "The Bull's daughter" and someone who enjoyed the lifestyle. Once she was shunned, then all of a sudden she hated it.

Waste of money, waste of my time. Frankly, this book just proved what a hypocrite she is (as if the show didn't make her look like one already). If you want a good Gravano read, read her father's book. At least then you say it's "captivating".

I don't know the author personally, but from what I see on TV, I really don't like her personality at all. THat being said, I thought I would give her the benefit of the doubt considering that she had a co-writer for this project and a good story.

What a let down. There was virtually nothing new revealed in this book. I think if you know the story about her father than you can safely assume what her family must have gone through. I have seen interviews where the author says that she felt it was time for her to tell HER story, but all these years later, honestly, who cares? Maybe if this book provided some true insight I'd feel differently, but it didn't. This is all a lot of fluff and I think she either just needed some money or its just a vehicle for her to move onto "bigger" things like Celebrity Apprentice or a new line of this or that.

She seems like she has some serious mental problems and anger issues and comes across as quite the narcissist. I think if anything her ego may need to be put in check if she thinks the world wants to know her side of what is essentially her dad's story (contrary to what she repeatedly says in interviews...that this is HER story. Its not.).

I'd say either wait for this to be deeply discounted, borrow it from a friend or get it from the library.

One of the largest subject classifications in my personal library is the section regarding criminal psychology, profiling, serial killers, law enforcement and organized crime. That is obviously the reason I bought this autobiography by Karen Gravano, the daughter of Sammy "The Bull" Gravano **THE BIGGEST RAT IN THE HISTORY OF ORGANIZED CRIME!!** Of all the books I've read in the aforementioned category... this is probably the worst one. In fact I don't believe any of the others I previously read could even be classified as bad. In no particular order of importance the following items should be pointed out to a potential reader: there are innumerable typos... there are endless "WOE-IS-ME" throughout the book... and one page the woe-is-me is because Daddy is a feared criminal... then the woe-is-me is that Daddy is in jail so I don't have everybody bending over backwards to wait on me hand and foot... and everybody isn't shivering in their boots... and then Daddy breaks every rule ever written or unwritten regarding loyalty to the Cosa Nostra about never ratting out his Mafia brothers... so that crushes the Mafia Princess... since she was raised to not tattle on her brother and vice versa... then the world is so mean because they don't understand that daddy-rat did the **HONORABLE** thing by ratting... then there could be "hit-teams" out to kill any and all members of our loving family.

One minute all the author wants is to make it in the straight world... then she's prouder of herself than if she discovered the cure for cancer because she has a marijuana sales and delivery service... ("I TOOK PRIDE IN BEING A DRUG DEALER, MAKING MY OWN MONEY AND HAVING PEOPLE LOOK UP TO ME.")... then later on she's crying the blues because she "innocently" gets busted along with her entire family for being involved in an ecstasy selling business.

At times it's disgusting how delusional she is when the newspapers' are plastered with the announcement that her father is going to squeal like a stuck pig-rat... and had "THE NAMES OF DAD'S NINETEEN MURDER VICTIMS ON TOMBSTONES." The lack of any true... sustained... empathy for the victims and their families make the reader shake their head in disbelief as to the incredulity of the self-centered-contradictions and complete disassociation from any true humanity. To add an almost comical insult-to-injury regarding the author and this book... there are eight pages of barely run of the mill pictures (compared to other crime books) in the book... and the last picture is "a drawing of Al Capone that Sammy completed while incarcerated"... if... after looking at the drawing of Capone... you turn back to the prior page upper right corner, there is a picture of the author... and if you either imagine Capone without the hat... or the author with the hat... they look eerily similar... just saying. That's the type of book it is.

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