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The night our book club picked a 900 page novel in one meeting and I still have notes about it
Last month at our Thursday night meetup in the back room of a pizza place in Boise, we voted on next month's pick and 7 of 11 hands went up for a 900 page doorstop. I was one of the 4 who wanted something shorter, and I figured fine, I'll just skim it like always. Three weeks later I showed up with nothing read and got caught when someone asked me about a scene from page 400. Now I keep a rule: if I did not finish, I say so in the first 2 minutes before anyone can ask. Has anyone else had a club where the person who suggests the longest book is also the one who never finishes it?
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william_henderson29d ago
Our club had that exact guy for two years, always pushed the 800 pagers and quit around chapter 3. We started having everyone give a quick "where I'm at" before we dig in and it killed all the awkwardness. Now we just laugh about it and move on.
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