Our book club voted to skip chapters 4-7 and it changed how I prep for meetings

Last month someone pointed out we were spending 20 minutes on irrelevant subplots, so now I mark the key pages before each discussion, has anyone else trimmed down what your group reads and actually enjoyed it more?

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clark.iris29d ago

Wait, you're telling me you skipped 4 whole chapters and didn't have a revolt on your hands? (My book club would probably vote to skip the snacks before they skipped a single page of character development.) Honestly though, I tried this once and ended up with someone asking "who's this guy again?" every 5 minutes because we skipped the chapter where he's introduced.

jesse77329d ago

Used to be the same way honestly... thought skipping a single chapter was basically a crime against literature or something. But then I tried it with a really slow middle section of a fantasy book and it actually worked? Everyone just looked up the summary online before the meeting. Figured out real quick that being able to actually finish the book mattered more than getting hung up on every single page. Still wouldn't skip a character introduction though... that's just asking for trouble later.