It came out on Showtime right after the Sopranos. It's free on Amazon Prime, and there are 3 seasons. Hopefully this link works: https://www.amazon.com/Mark-8-36/dp/B000JO9XY6/ref=mp_s_a_1_1?ie=UTF8&qid=1549151757&sr=1-1&pi=PI_PJPrime-Sash-Extra-Large-2017,TopLeft,0,0_AC_SX118_SY170_QL70&keywords=brotherhood&dpPl=1&dpID=51bbYYFJRJL&ref=plSrch

I really enjoyed it a lot, it should be right up the alley for any Sopranos fan. It's about two Irish brothers in Federal Hill in Providence. One is a rising politician, and the other is an Irish mobster. Gigi's actor is kind of a side character who (I think) isn't introduced until season 2, but becomes more important later on. It was also kinda cool for me since I'm from RI :)

If they did move down to Florida in the early/ mid 2000's, it would be at the height of unlimited and easy to get narcotic prescriptions in Florida.

Here's a good documentary about it, but I highly recommend that book, too. Excellent read.

Glad you asked. I may have bought the wrong thing off Amazon, but what I received is a 6x6" 50-page "Special Preview Edition" of "The Sopranos - The Complete Book".

Edit: Yeah looks like I bought the wrong thing.

Meant to get this.

Yea, totally agree. Like they just shoehorned an ending into what was one of the most important relationships on the show.

Here's a link to the book. It's not particualrly popular, in part because I published it like a decade too late (at least that's the lie I tell myself.) https://www.amazon.com/Fuhgettaboutit-shrink-analyzes-characters-Sopranos/dp/1535463325

I'll send you an EPUB version if you want to read it.

Twisted head, actually, and 10 years ago he wrote a book titled Twisted Head about growing up Italian in the 1960's Bronx, that actually looks pretty good.

https://www.amazon.com/Twisted-Head-Carl-Capotorto/dp/0767928628

I enjoyed this one... http://www.amazon.com/Difficult-Men-Creative-Revolution-Sopranos/dp/0143125699

Lots of interesting stuff on Chase and also a lot of inside baseball info about the TV industry if you're into that kind of thing.

It's a cool idea. I like it. Are you going to use The Sopranos Cookbook? Or just approximate recipes?

https://www.amazon.com/Sopranos-Family-Cookbook-Compiled-Artie/dp/0446530573

I've got a Sopranos cookbook if you'd like recipes for meals or desserts.

PM me your email if you like and I'll hook you up.

If anybody wants the recipe let me know, adapted it from Henry Hill's excellent Wiseguy Cookbook.

This makes me happy: https://www.amazon.com/Sopranos-Family-Cookbook-Compiled-Artie/dp/0446530573/ref=nodl_

It is indeed Burroughs' voice, reading from his "The Road to the Western Lands." The music was made by Bill Laswell under the moniker Material. Amazon has a few good customer reviews of the album.

In The Gospel According to Tony Soprano the author writes that Tony wears a St. Jerome medal.

I did a quick google the book is 'Twsited Head: An Italian American Memoir.'

The synopsis is:-

All the usual Italian-American stories are here—Sunday dinners, being an altar boy, Grandma's gravy, the controlling father and the family's pizza parlor—but Capotorto (whose name is Italian for twisted head) adds his own spin to the genre: he describes growing up gay in the Bronx of the 1970s. Capotorto's humorous prose comes to life when he describes his disco-era lifestyle, whether it be dancing the hustle or, as he's primping for the Saturday night disco, overhearing his mom gossiping about Rock Hudson having an affair with Jim Nabors. He describes how he first fought his feelings and then, later, embraced a gay lifestyle despite the misgivings of his stern father. Capotorto, a playwright and actor, does a great job describing the relationship between his parents (his father is traditional, his mother loving yet powerless) and himself and his four sisters, who all struggle to find their way. In the end, Capotorto skillfully weaves stories that are both comic and tragic to capture a family caught between the Old and New worlds.

https://www.amazon.com/Twisted-Head-Italian-American-Memoir-ebook/dp/B001GSTON4

For anyone interested:

(The Sopranos: The Complete Series [Blu-ray] + Digital HD https://www.amazon.com/dp/B00L5QX1FO/ref=cm_sw_r_awd_B7uxub0K72NJG)

Here it is in Amazon.

The Sopranos: The Complete Series BD + Digital HD
http://www.amazon.com/dp/B00L5QX1FO/ref=cm_sw_r_udp_awd_g9-Xtb1GPD9XP

Yea, I used to post some of these a while back under a different (my real) name. I was getting some weird messages from people so I started a new account. I published this like a decade after the show ended, so it never really took off. I've done a bunch of books analyzing TV characters. Just kind of a fun hobby really.
http://sopranosanalysis.blogspot.co.nz/

https://www.amazon.com/Fuhgettaboutit-shrink-analyzes-characters-Sopranos/dp/1535463325

I need to go ahead and buy this Soprano Family Cookbook! https://www.amazon.com/gp/offer-listing/0446530573/ref=mw_dp_olp?ie=UTF8&condition=all

There's two of them: 1 2

https://www.amazon.com/Sopranos-Sessions-Matt-Zoller-Seitz/dp/1419734946

Oh yeah

Ask Santa for it.

http://www.amazon.com/Difficult-Men-Creative-Revolution-Sopranos/dp/0143125699

There are two Soprano family cookbooks, one "compiled by" Artie and the other by Carmela.

Some of the recipes are available on various blogs and pdfs of both books in their entirety are out there if you look.

The Sopranos Cookbook as compiled by Artie Bucco

> sopranos cookbook

http://www.amazon.com/The-Sopranos-Family-Cookbook-Compiled/dp/0446530573

There were some biographies on the main characters in [the coffee table book] (https://www.amazon.com/Sopranos-Book-Complete-Collectors-HBO/dp/1933821183) - I don't have my copy of the book with me at the moment but that seems a likely source for that kind of esoteric detail.

I tired his way once. It was okay. Just seems the butter prevents the noodles from absorbing or sticking to the sauce properly.

Still need to try his egg recipe. Also found this at Goodwill for $1 a few days ago. Gonna have to give some of those a try too.

The wiki cites "The Sopranos, A Family History" link here:
https://www.amazon.com/Sopranos-Family-History-Allen-Rucker/dp/0451202465

Not as hard and fast, but I have never heard anyone question whether Silvio was lying about being offered boss, and in terms of the writing it doesn't fit Chase's style for this show and for the character of Silvio. Believe what you want but you're like the only one who believes that.

I went to order it off of Amazon (https://www.amazon.com/Sopranos-Family-Cookbook-Compiled-Artie/dp/0446530573), and then I saw that the scumbag Henry Hill had also made a mob cookbook; https://www.amazon.com/Wise-Guy-Cookbook-Favorite-Goodfella/dp/0451207068/ref=pd_bxgy_14_img_2?_encoding=UTF8&psc=1&refRID=Q4NZQGNH0RHE11RJTM71

https://www.amazon.com/Sopranos-Sessions-Matt-Zoller-Seitz/dp/1419734946

Essays on every episode, interviews with David Chase (1 per season), very insightful and added a lot of behind the scenes stuff.

For example, David Chase confirms that Ralphie did start the fire, and the shot of the goat was meant to symbolize Ralphie as the devil who caused it.

I don't remember if it was for my birthday, or Christmas, but around 2010 my now ex-wife gave me this set:
https://www.amazon.com/Bada-Bing-Music-Heard-Sopranos/dp/B000SAAUBG/ref=sr_1_1?ie=UTF8&qid=1520181889&sr=8-1&keywords=music+heard+on+the+sopranos

At the time, it was the only place I could find Dean's Vegas medley (one of the songs they play from the boat to harass the Sapinsly house in Whitecaps). It's mostly got the more subtle, background stuff; it doesn't have stuff like Thru and Thru (end of Funhouse), Bad 'N' Ruin (Tony B whacking Joe Peeps), or Don't Stop Believin', but it's got a ton of the music that's from Tony's childhood, plus quite a bit of Sinatra and Martin.

Assuming you’re gonna buy the book:
The Sopranos Sessions https://www.amazon.com/dp/1419734946/ref=cm_sw_r_cp_api_i_IkfoDbRRQR0G5

“SOPRANO HOME MOVIES”
SEASON 7/ EPISODE 1
WRITTEN BY DIANE FROLOV & ANDREW SCHNEIDER AND DAVID CHASE AND MATTHEW WEINER
DIRECTED BY TIM VAN PATTEN
Boardwalk Hotel

“You Sopranos! You go too far!”—Bobby “Is this it?” Carmela asks Tony early in “Soprano Home Movies,” after waking up to the sound of cops beating on their front door. No, it’s not quite “it”—if by “it,” you mean the point where Tony’s bad deeds finally catch up with him. He’s rich enough to buy a good lawyer, and the charge that prompts his latest arrest is old and weak (possession of a handgun and hollow-point ammunition—fallout from the end of season five, where Tony fled from the Feds’ arrest of Johnny Sack and chucked his piece in the snow, where it was discovered by a dumb suburban teen). But in another sense, yes, this is “it”—the final stretch for The Sopranos, the series. To answer one Carmela quote with another, from the season four premiere, “Let me tell you something: everything comes to an end.” The opening sequence of this episode—an off-kilter prologue, really, with an alternate narrative of that “All Due Respect” chase scene that opens like a hypertext link—also echoes the lyrics of the show’s theme: “Woke up this morning / Got yourself a gun.” But this time, it’s a gun Tony that didn’t have anymore—and damn sure didn’t want. The charge, though not quite resolved, looks like it won’t stick, so it counts as a close call—one of many that Tony has endured over six seasons, the most drastic of which was his shooting by demented Uncle Junior. “Soprano Home Movies” is largely a demonstration of Tony’s inability to escape being Tony even when escape is the whole point. He and Carmela try to flee the anxiety surrounding Tony’s gun charge and the irritation of AJ’s new situation1 by heading to Bobby and Janice’s lake house to celebrate Tony’s forty-seventh birthday. It’s a spectacular place to visit, and large chunks of the episode involve some combination of the four adults simply basking in the calming sights and sounds of the lake, with one scene dissolving peacefully into the next. But whether a Soprano goes to Naples, Paris, Miami, or an alternate reality, they are still a Soprano, and rot follows them. While Tony and Bobby sit on a boat in the middle of the lake, for instance, the conversation inevitably turns to business. The two men speculate on what happens if you get whacked. “You probably don’t even hear it when it happens, right?” Bobby wonders. The talk shifts to how Bobby has never actually killed someone on the job (“ My pop never wanted it for me.”), and Tony suggests that Bobby may be a more reliable number two than guilt-ridden junkie Christopher has turned out to be. (Chris appears for only a few seconds in this episode—trying to wish Tony a happy birthday before T hangs up on him—which is long enough to establish that Tony has yet to forgive him for Julianna Skiff and any number of other offenses.) The episode’s most important set piece takes place indoors, as we spend a long, drunken evening with the Soprano siblings and their spouses, first doing karaoke (Carmela has rarely seemed less guarded than when she’s belting out “Love Hurts”), then playing an epic game of Monopoly that results in hurt feelings over the use of the unofficial Free Parking rule (when Bobby insists that the Parker Brothers put a lot of thought into the game as it should be played, his own wife snorts, “Fuck the Parker Brothers!”), over Janice telling an embarrassing (to Tony) but funny (to everyone else) story about Johnny Boy firing a bullet through Livia’s beehive hairdo, and particularly over Tony’s inability to stop making jokes about Janice’s old ways. The scene is the most purely theatrical thing the series has done since “Whitecaps,” a wiseguy riff on The Man Who Came to Dinner. It ratchets the tension and discomfort until Tony is warbling a version of “Under the Boardwalk” whose lyrics are about the sex acts Janice might have performed there. This is too much for Bobby, who has already insisted that Tony is a guest in his home who should not be insulting his wife, and he sucker-punches his own boss, leading to an ugly, clumsy brawl that’s like a sad comic mirror of Ralphie’s death. Tony has always had the physical advantage in any fight we’ve ever seen him get into, but Bobby is younger and healthier (he hasn’t been shot in the last year, at least), and is powered by a more righteous fury than the indignation Tony musters at the thought of one of his guys daring to strike him. In a shocking upset akin to Buster Douglas knocking out Mike Tyson, it’s Tony who winds up on the canvas at the end of this bout, 2 though it’s Bobby who then tries to run away, aware of the potentially fatal consequences of what he’s just done. “Tony is not a vindictive man,” Carmela tries to reassure Janice the next morning. We know otherwise, and the events that follow prove her sadly wrong—albeit not in the way either she or we might expect. Tony has never been a gracious loser, and he stews over the various reasons Bobby had an unfair advantage, but he never seriously entertains killing his brother-in-law. That would be a Johnny Boy move, and as season five’s “Cold Cuts” reminded us, it’s Janice who inherited more of that form of the Soprano temper (witness Richie), where Tony is more like his mother than he’d ever want to admit. Janice killing Richie for punching her in the mouth (presented in a sad, funny alternate history to Carmela) was more a Johnny Boy reaction than a Livia one. Livia wouldn’t have shot Richie. She would have henpecked him to death, or found something he loved and taken it from him. What Tony does to Bacala is exactly the kind of dish Livia would have served with cold cuts, where Johnny Boy and Janice both would have gone straight to blood. A brother-in-law gets killed, but it’s someone else’s: while negotiating a deal with a Canadian crew, Tony offers to murder the troublesome ex-husband of one of their sisters, and insists that Bobby be the one to do it. This goes against Bobby Sr.’ s wishes, and against Bobby’s own gentle nature, but Bobby’s in a vulnerable position where he can’t say no to the boss. The hit mostly goes as planned, but the victim reaches out and rips open Bobby’s shirt as the second bullet is fired, exposing his broken heart for all of us to see. In the world of the Mob, Bobby has just improved his standing. From any other perspective, he’s damned himself, and he knows it, judging by the look on his face as he returns to the lake to see Janice, baby Nica, and some friends all laughing and playing like they’re in a laundry detergent commercial. 3 This is the life he wants, the one he will go to extremes to protect, but the cabin will be forever soured, because he’ll remember the fight that happened here and what it forced him to do. On The Sopranos, when a character compliments another character on bettering themselves, or simply changing, it’s usually a sick joke. “The credit goes to you,” Janice tells her brother, noting how mellow he’s become. “You’ve really changed.” 4 Of course neither Tony nor Janice has really changed—they’ve just become more powerful and loathsome over the years, and more tragic because of the glimmers of self-awareness that keep getting snuffed out. The sense that Tony had a chance to really change but missed his moment is indicated, subtly, when Carmela spots a jumping fish (probably the most important animal on this show, even more important than Tony’s season one dream ducks) and Tony looks up too late to see it. “You’re a young man,” Bobby tells Tony. “We both are. The world’s still in front of us.” But the episode’s real message can be found in another Bobby line, when he tells Tony that he’s glad he never had to do a hit because DNA evidence makes it so hard to get away with crime these days. You cannot escape your identity.