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Caught my wife's book club arguing about a footnote for 20 minutes
I was cleaning the gutters (eavesdropping really) and heard them go back and forth over whether a 3-sentence footnote in a chapter ruined the whole pacing of the novel. It got me thinking about how much weight we put on tiny details in a 400-page book, you know? Has anyone else had a whole discussion derailed by something that small?
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anthony_lane554mo ago
My book club spent a full 35 minutes debating whether one character's middle name was a subtle clue or just the author's bad joke. That footnote doesn't sound so bad compared to the middle name situation, we never even got to the actual plot. I still don't know what happened in chapter 12 because we were too busy cracking up over the name thing.
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richardharris4mo ago
Oh man that middle name thing sounds brutal, we had a 40 minute fight over a comma once and still don't know what the book was about.
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