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[Book Club] The Godfather, by Mario Puzo, Session ONE, ft. Jay Dyer

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Society & Culture

4.81.6K Ratings

🗓️ 20 November 2023

⏱️ 62 minutes

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Summary

A pulp fiction classic that became a national phenomenon! Still, there is so much more that meets the eye to this one, and with return co-host, Jay Dyer, along for the ride, we hit new depths with the analysis! Feel free to read and contribute to The Godfather's official threads: Session One: https://tinyurl.com/kuvcc88c Session Two: https://tinyurl.com/56twtksk Session Three: https://tinyurl.com/bdhb7vc8 Session Four: https://tinyurl.com/y3nt2whw Final Session: https://tinyurl.com/4j28m7x3 If you want to be a part of the live sessions for books forthcoming become a monthly sponsor on the "Sponsor Us" tab on QuiteFrankly.tv! All monthly sponsors (no matter at which level of sponsorship) are given access to specialty programs like Book Club!

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0:00.0

You're going to be here. the The Oh, Now this is the first book club that we're actually able to use the new opening from the beginning to the end of the

1:05.4

serial and welcome back everybody.

1:07.8

It's October 2023.

1:10.9

It's me Frank and I'm going to introduce, reintroduce you to a good friend, good buddy, and this is the second book now we get to do together.

1:19.0

It is Jay Dyer. What's going on, Jay?

1:35.0

Hold on, you're still muted. What's up dude? Good to be here. There he is. My gosh so the last time we were together we had some pretty down subject matter we were we were we went into we went into brave new world in a into a depth that I've never done before and

1:39.6

it was it was eye opening it was a little bit heartbreaking and it left you a little bit

1:45.8

empty inside but very necessary reading this one is going to be a little bit more

1:51.1

action-packed it's going to be a little bit more spicy we've got

1:54.2

Mario Puzo's the godfather

1:56.3

and

1:58.1

how general thoughts what do you think so far the first 88 pages.

2:09.0

Well, I did, uh, was the first four chapters for me that came out to almost 100. So, was the first four, is that right?

2:12.0

Yep, yep.

2:13.0

Okay, then you just, we probably have a different copy that I have then.

2:16.0

Yeah, different good ones.

2:18.0

Yeah, so, you know, I'm sure we've all seen the movies.

2:21.7

It was a lot more depth than I expected in the sense of

2:25.4

symbolism. You know the films don't have a lot of symbolism per se. They're very

2:30.9

complex stories and they get into a lot of real geopolitical and

2:35.0

conspiracy events but they're not really that symbolic. There's not a lot of

2:40.6

depth in that sense. A lot of human psychology and depth in that regard. A lot of power plays and chessboard-type machinations, depth in that sense.

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