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I bet there's clubs for that. I wouldn't eat the chips though.

Instantly spoil it. They will learn.

Our rules are that you don't have to finish the book, but you have to accept spoilers if you don't.

Book club animosity? Sounds so welcoming.

Absofuckinlutely!

Yeah, but the spoilers will be very confusing

my book club only wanted to read mysteries or romance novels…when my turn to pick a book came it was a pulitzer prize winner 😁. They were not amused. none of them got through it. A CONFEDERACY OF DUNCES, by John Kennedy Toole I guess you shouldn’t try to expand people’s horizons?

‘Turns out the caterpillar really was hungry!’ ‘Ffs, I haven’t finished it yet.’

I wasted a weekend reading my pick, hated it. At Book Club, the other three hadn't read it, and never told me in advance, which was always the plan. But they all knew the others hadn't read it.Then they had the gaul to ask how it ended. Told them to read it to find out. We are no longer friends.

have earlier...something you took for granted that you knew already when really you knew NOTHING yet. Not all books do that...not over a long life...but some do. Books converse with each other, with the news cycle, with the advance of science, and with their readers. Join THAT conversation.

I don't like spoilers on a first read, but that's not all I read the book for, and if I liked it I will read it again, possibly many times. But then I'm not in a book club and I wouldn't expect there not to be spoilers!

This happened to me. I went along, talked about why and listened to the others. I wasn’t the only one who didn’t like it, and ended up learning something about myself as well as the book. So I would say, go!

AND you don't drink, and did not bring a bottle of wine. Piss off. Go to Bible study.

100%

I know, right? LOL

I love my book club. We usually talk about the book for about 20 minutes, drink prosecco, eat delicious food, and laugh for another 3 hours, minimum.

People do that? I’ve never been to a book club but that seems insane. I thought everyone knew that’s what you do in a book club. What else would you do?

Yeah "no spoilers" is not something to expect when you're supposed to have read the book

Boy, I’ve wanted to say that out loud so many times. Bravo.

“We have a room with a group for those who haven’t read it.” (Opens front door and gestures outward)

Are book clubs really a thing? People genuinely go to each other's houses to talk about a book that they've all read? I assumed it was some middle class joke, like the working class getting together to discuss Eastenders in a meeting.

Our book club made one member go stand in the kitchen while we discussed the end of the book she hadn't finished.

"is that the chapter Luke finds out Vader is his father...?"

The temptation to reply to them with a completely false narrative would be too strong. A quick wink to the author, then: "If you didn't want to know how Goldilocks fought off the f'kin Nazis then you didn't have come!"

I miss when this was a standard important post.

Isn't the point to read it in stages for each meeting, but some people attended will have read the lot?

amen.

If you know they haven't read enough of it, oh baby, this is the time to lie your arse off. :)

Sounds like a fun book club.

🤣

I thought the point of book club - other than don't talk about book club - was to just sit around drinking wine.

Yeah, usually if it is on topic they know nothing about or read normally leaves the room until it is finished...but of course, you know how it is, some just love to kick drama

Haha spoilers suck it up buttercup