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

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Society & Culture

4.81.6K Ratings

🗓️ 20 November 2023

⏱️ 56 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 see. You're going to be here. the Oh, Yes, welcome everybody. So happy to have you back. It is Monday, October 9th and here we are

1:09.7

for Session 2 of Book Club for The Godfather by Mario Puzo and with me tonight

1:16.8

return co-host of this serial love hanging out with this guy. Jay Dyer, what's going on Jay?

1:24.0

What's up, Frank?

1:26.0

Oh, nothing much, nothing much.

1:27.0

I'm glad to be back with you, yeah.

1:28.0

Very glad to have you.

1:30.0

Now, I'm just gonna, this might be a little bit of a lighter load than most times that we that we do a show because

1:39.3

This right here from pages 88 to the beginning I think we're now facing book 3 in the face

1:46.8

these series of chapters they are all really interestingly focused on Johnny Fontaine. That's where we are right now and

1:56.4

there's plenty to be said about what's in here. I love the in-depth looking the

1:59.9

character. You don't get anything like this in the movies.

2:03.2

The motivating factors for what, what, where he came from, what he became now, and of course,

2:09.2

that that vampiric nature and culture of Hollywood continues to keep creeping back in and it's just so

2:20.0

dehumanizing and debasing and it's really interesting to see the struggle that is Johnny Fontaine,

2:25.7

as he's carrying on, while for a good portion of these chapters,

2:30.3

he doesn't even know that the dawn has been shot so we can go through some details

2:36.3

but what are some things that hit you along the way before we jump into the

2:39.2

the work inner workings here? So, well, we ended what, at like page 90 something I thought, or what my copy is different.

2:50.4

Your copy is different, yeah.

2:52.4

So, um, we left off, I thought with...

2:56.0

It was Chapter 5 to...

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