The DeFranco Book Club discussion

So, this is rather strange to me. I've never been a part of a book club before, and honestly I've never used goodreads before Phil directed me here...so maybe I'm just a confused rookie, but help me out here.

How many people read the Sparrow? I haven't. I had never heard of it before this club and it's failed to appear on any "suggested reading" lists I've looked over. So why has it been chosen? I'm just wondering how all this is supposed to work.

Secondly. There are five books in the "list" so far, but only four on the bookshelf...and the Sparrow is the one missing, so that's confusing.

Also, I think I checked this page a while back and "The 4-Hour Workweek" was on the bookshelf...but now it's not. I've purchased and read it (AND IT WAS AMAZING!) for this club, and I don't regret having spent time on it but I'm just wondering if it will be "reassigned" later on or if it was just a fluke. Or am I going crazy and it was never there to begin with?

Also, why is it taking so long to create a more advanced version of the reading list? There have been a ton of suggestions (if I'm not mistaken) and it seems like it would be fairly easy to just add the next couple of books to the bookshelf for assigned reading.

And lastly, I feel like there's a kind of a lack of Phil here...he just doesn't seem very involved in the conversation...or am I just expecting too much or not looking in the right places? I dunno.

Once again, I'm very new to this whole "book club" thing, and goodreads, and even reading as a hobby. But I'm excited about this and want it to be as awesome as possible. You guys have inspired me to read almost 7 books in this month alone! :D

If you could help answer some of these questions, I'd really appreciate it! Thanks.

Phil read the sparrrow and didn't like it so he took it off the list. He was also too lazy to update the official reading list on bookreads but he just posted the list in the YouTube description of his last bookclub video. I think the general consensus is that phil ditched but we haven't heard any official word.

Ah, I see...and yeah, I've already read all of those books :P What next?! Thanks for the comment.

Phil's back, and he's planning on getting things more organised.

I think everything is going to work out Guys. :P :)

Yeah, I'm really happy to see his involvement again :) Thanks for alerting us to this Shayla.

I just hope he starts making videos for book reviews again. Not that I don't like this website,but I find it easier if all his thoughts are in one video instead of having to look through the pages of these forums for his responses.

I totally agree, personally. Maybe he could create a forum for the movie club and then alternate weeks that he does videos for each... I dunno. I'm being hopeful that the videos will return someday.

I feel a lack of commitment from management. :\

Well hopefully once we get some moderators things will improve a bit.

Why exactly are we waiting for moderators? There are incipient group folders for all the books on the 10 list. Just post a thread when you want to talk about it! Aaron, you read four hour work week; I didn't and am not going to, hence why I didn't start the thread on it. Shayla and Aaron, you two are posting the most, so instead of waiting for someone to lead, just take it! When and if Phil starts to be committed again then we can worry about his input.

We have been kind of.
I think it's too early to start the discussion for 4hww as it's not really due to be read til the weekend and its only tuesday/wednesday at the moment.
The reason we/I want a moderator or for Phil to be active is to keep order and tidy up the forums when/if things start getting messy and jumbled which always happen if there is noone to monitor. Besides I joined this club to hear Phil's opinions and interpretations of the books we've been reading which hasn't really been happening. I thought that this would be more interactive, they way that movie club is.

Ryan you have to read it! It's seriously the most life altering book I've ever read! Tim Ferriss is a genius! The reason we need mods is exactly the reason Shayla mentioned, there's a lack of structure. We can start a post but there also needs to be a lot of cleaning up. And yeah, the reason for this whole club is to hear Phils opinions on things. Who cares about my opinion?

I would like to hear Phil's opinion, of course, but keeping this going by fans until he is interested again is not a bad idea. Shayla, It would have been this last Sunday 4hww was to be finished is every book has taken a week. I started the Ender's Game thread the week it was supposed to be being read.

(Edit- I see now the end date for it. But it's still not too soon to start it! Phil hasn't started a discussion thread since week 1.)

Aaron, there are 2 reasons I didn't read it. One is I am buy reading literature and am generally not very interested in self-help-type books. Maybe more relevantly, I am in school for a PhD and plan on being a professor, so it's not like I plan on working a normal 9-to-5 40-hour work week anyways. But I'm starting a thread about it because I'd love to see what you and others have to say about it!

Shayla wrote: "We have been kind of.
I think it's too early to start the discussion for 4hww as it's not really due to be read til the weekend and its only tuesday/wednesday at the moment.
The reason we/I want a ..."

I loled at this xD. He really does enjoy doing movie club over book club xD. It's whatever though, I think the nation should just keep it moving and just share ideas among ourselves.