Our book club picked a 700 page fantasy novel and only 2 people finished it

Last month, our club in Phoenix voted to read 'The Labyrinth of Echoes' by some new author. It was huge, like 700 pages. I figured we'd all power through, but at our meeting yesterday, only me and this guy Steve had actually finished it. Everyone else said they got stuck around page 200 because the plot got too slow. We spent the whole hour debating if a book club should ever pick something that long, or if we need a page limit. Has your group ever had a book that just killed the momentum for most people?

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palmer.richard2mo ago

A page limit just kills the whole point of a book club for me.

jesse9942mo ago

Wait, how does a page limit kill the point? I mean, isn't the point to actually read and talk about the book? If it's like 800 pages, maybe half the group won't finish. Then you're just talking about the first few chapters. Idk, maybe it's just me but a limit seems helpful, not bad.

lane.cameron2mo ago

Seriously, a page limit just makes sense for a real discussion.