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Nerdfighter Book Club

project · in 14 videos (2007–2012)

Mentions by year: 2007: 9 · 2009: 1 · 2012: 4

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What the videos say

2007

  • 2007-01-08 · Brotherhood 2.0: January 8, 2007 — John proposes a Brotherhood 2.0 Book Club: he will read a book Hank suggests if Hank reads one he suggests. (00:02:34)
  • 2007-01-09 · Brotherhood 2.0: January 9th — Saying viewers all want John to write rather than read, Hank makes John's only book-club option the book John is writing. (00:02:30)
  • 2007-01-09 · Brotherhood 2.0: January 9th — On the Brotherhood 2.0 Book Club, Hank sarcastically welcomes the chance John gives him to read so many books about genocide. (00:02:30)
  • 2007-01-15 · Brotherhood 2.0: January 15th — Hank says the book club is still a good idea, but he must avoid John's 'genocide book' for less than a week and will probably start it for Friday. (00:01:05)
  • 2007-01-27 · Week 2 Condensed Highlight Reel — John proposes a Brotherhood 2.0 book club: each reads a book the other suggests; his first suggestion is What Is the What or We Wish to Inform You That Tomorrow We Will Be Killed with Our Families. (00:00:40)
  • 2007-01-27 · Week 2 Condensed Highlight Reel — Hank sarcastically welcomes John's book-club suggestions as chances to read so many books about genocide. (00:02:02)
  • 2007-03-06 · Brotherhood 2.0: Peeps and Genocide — Hank announces he has finished the first Brotherhood 2.0 Book Club book, Philip Gourevitch's 'We Wish to Inform You That Tomorrow We Will Be Killed With Our Families'. (00:00:39)
  • 2007-03-15 · Brotherhood 2.0: March 15: Decreasing Suck — John says the worst thing one can do is not try to decrease suck levels, which he says is what the first Brotherhood 2.0 book club book was about. (00:02:15)
  • 2007-03-22 · March 22nd: Book Club and Business Cards — Hank recalls that for the book club he had to read We Wish to Inform You..., while John's assigned book was his own novel, since John was past his deadline. (00:02:01)
  • 2007-03-22 · March 22nd: Book Club and Business Cards — After jokingly assigning the huge WorldChanging, Hank asks John to read Bill McKibben's new book Deep Economy for the Brotherhood 2.0 book club. (00:02:42)
  • 2007-08-16 · August 16th: Finding--and Licking--a Cat — In a retro edition, John announces the Brotherhood 2.0 book club is back: after months of delay he is finally reading Deep Economy by Bill McKibben; review to come, he likes it so far. (00:00:09)
  • 2007-09-06 · September 6th: The Book Club Returns — John announces the next Brotherhood 2.0 book club book is his own Paper Towns, which Penguin won't publish until September of next year. (00:02:56)
  • …and 1 more statements in 2007 (most important shown)

2009

  • 2009-03-15 · Lighting a candle for Rwanda — Rather than recounting the genocide, John tells Nerdfighters to read the first Brotherhood 2.0 book club book, 'We Wish to Inform You That Tomorrow We Will Be Killed with Our Families'. (00:00:24)

2012

  • 2012-06-15 · Flinching in the Shower — Hank announces the brothers are reinstituting the Summertime Nerdfighter Book Club, reading Fahrenheit 451 together. (00:03:17)
  • 2012-07-03 · The Physics of Book Clubs and Vidcon — John says the Nerdfighter Book Club is reading Fahrenheit 451; the first assignment is to finish Part One, 'The Hearth and the Salamander', by next Tuesday. (00:01:36)
  • 2012-07-03 · The Physics of Book Clubs and Vidcon — John says both brothers will read Fahrenheit 451 and make videos about it; their readings will probably differ, letting the community discuss how and why we read and what is fulfilling. (00:01:36)