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Vent: A teenager at the library said our book club's 'To Kill a Mockingbird' debate was 'cringe' because we didn't talk about the 2022 stage adaptation.
It made me miss when our club's big debate was just about the book itself, not every single adaptation or spin-off, so has anyone else had a classic book discussion totally derailed by someone insisting on analyzing the movie or play instead?
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the_patricia4d ago
Ugh, that's so annoying. Heard a similar thing happen with a Lord of the Flies talk where someone only wanted to discuss the film changes. Just let the book be the book sometimes, you know?
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laurac9615h ago
Oh man, @the_patricia, my friend's whole Dune club got derailed by a debate over the new movie's sandworms!
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dylanmurray4d agoMost Upvoted
My buddy got into it at a book club over Frankenstein. Some guy kept going on about how the monster looked in the Boris Karloff movie. My friend just wanted to talk about the book's ideas, you know? It totally killed the whole vibe for everyone. They never really got back to what Mary Shelley actually wrote. Feels like some people just can't separate the original story from the adaptations.
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