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Had a terrible book club pick last month that split our group in two
My book club in Portland chose "The Last Resort" for our August meeting, and on page 50 I already knew half the members would hate it... the ending made people so mad that three members actually walked out before the discussion was over. Has anyone else ever had a book pick cause that much drama in their group?
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robert2758d ago
The whole "people walking out before discussion" thing is wild. I wonder if the real split wasn't about the book itself but about how people handle endings that don't wrap things up neatly. My group had a similar meltdown over a novel that ended on a cliffhanger, and it turned out the people who hated it were the same ones who always read the last page first.
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lindaw298d ago
Our group still brings up the "Great Lobster Incident" from 2019. Half of us thought the book was a masterpiece, the other half wanted to throw it in the Willamette. We still have two people who refuse to sit next to each other.
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