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I finally figured out why my book club kept arguing about the same character every month
We were all reading different editions of the book because half of us got library copies and half got used paperbacks with missing pages, and that one missing chapter made us fight for three meetings until someone brought it up.
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king.aaron12d ago
Wait, is everyone okay with calling it a "missing chapter" instead of just saying the book club read a defective copy? The way you describe it, it sounds like you had a group debate over a character that only half of you actually read about. That's not a missing chapter situation, that's just a poorly sourced book problem. Next time someone should probably check if everyone has the same edition before you get into deep arguments. It would save a lot of frustration and wasted meeting time.
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harper69312d ago
I mean, come on, let's be real here. A missing chapter IS a missing chapter if your edition literally doesn't have it. It's not a "defective copy" problem unless we're talking about a printing error where pages fell out. Different editions having different content is actually super common, especially with older books or ones that got revised later. The book club could have spent ten minutes at the start just saying "hey, my page 247 ends with this, does yours?" and saved the whole headache. But calling it poorly sourced is a bit harsh, it's more like nobody thought to check because everyone assumed books are all the same, which is a pretty dumb assumption honestly.
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