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Our group in Seattle argued for an hour about whether the dog in 'The Art of Racing in the Rain' was a reliable narrator
One person kept saying a dog's view is always biased, while another insisted the whole point was its pure honesty. It got so heated someone brought up their own pet's behavior as proof. I walked away wondering if we were really debating the book or just our own ideas about animals. Has your club ever had a silly fight over a book's basic idea?
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harperreed7mo ago
Honestly, we just vote on a ruling and move on.
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annanguyen7mo ago
Just vote and move on" is smart, it saves so much time. My old cooking group had a rule like that for recipe debates. We once spent twenty minutes arguing if you could use lime juice instead of lemon in a dish, and it got as heated as sandra374's boat fight. We finally voted that citrus is citrus and moved on to actually eating. Sometimes you just need to make a call so you can get back to the fun part.
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sandra3747mo ago
Our book club in Austin spent 45 minutes yelling about whether the boat in "Life of Pi" was a real boat or a metaphor for his mind. Two engineers brought diagrams. My friend Karen left the chat for a week because she felt we were missing the spiritual point. It stopped being about the book and became a fight about who was the smartest reader. We had to take a month off from picking animal stories.
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