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?

2 comments

2 Comments

anthony_lane552d agoMost Upvoted

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.

richardharris2d 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.