The book club argument about chapter 3 that ended with a couch flip
Last Tuesday at the Maple Street library, we spent 45 minutes fighting over whether the protagonist's silence in chapter 3 meant guilt or grief, and one guy got so heated he actually flipped over one of those plastic folding chairs. That same night, a quiet retired teacher read one sentence aloud about the character's dog and the whole room went dead silent, then everyone agreed that was the real turning point. Has anyone else had a debate where some tiny detail completely upended what you thought the book was about and made the group look dumb?