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Warning: I voted against the 900 page fantasy pick at our Tuesday club and now I'm the villain
Our club meets at a diner in Portland on Tuesdays and the vote was 4 to 3 to read a 900 page fantasy doorstop for November, and I was one of the three against it. I said up front that nobody in that group finished the 700 page pick back in March except one guy, so what makes this one different? Karen told me "this one has dragons on page one so it moves faster," which is not a system. Fast forward two weeks and we met to talk about the first 150 pages and four people showed up with nothing read, including two who voted yes. So now I want to know, does your club have any rule for page count, or do you all just keep getting talked into bricks by the loudest person at the table?
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carter.casey22d ago
Does your club pick the book first and then count pages, or count pages first? My buddy's sci-fi group got tired of this exact thing and made a simple rule: nothing over 400 pages unless it's a sequel someone already finished. First month they tried it, the loud guy pushed back hard, but they held the line. Turns out the books got better because shorter ones actually get read all the way through. His group finishes like 10 books a year now instead of 6, and the talks are way more fun since people show up knowing what happened. Your Karen thing is wild too, "dragons on page one" is not a plan, that's just vibes with extra steps.
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