Our club had to pick between a long classic or a new bestseller last month

Honestly, it was a real fight. We had two choices for our March read: 'Middlemarch', which is like 800 pages, or that new thriller 'The Silent Patient' everyone was talking about. I pushed hard for the classic, saying we needed something with more to talk about. But ngl, most of the group wanted the quick, fun read. We voted and went with the thriller. The meeting was fine, but the talk felt thin. We basically just said if we guessed the twist or not, and that was it. Made me miss when we used to dig into a book for hours. Has your group ever picked the easy option and then felt let down by the discussion?

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barbara_hall97h ago

Wasn't The Silent Patient actually a few years old? I remember reading it before the pandemic. That aside, I get what you mean about thin talks. My group did a popular mystery once and we just listed plot holes for twenty minutes. It felt like junk food for the brain.

webb.linda4h ago

Our Gone Girl chat was just listing bad twists.