Can we talk about the member who brought a printed 40 page rebuttal to a fiction pick
Last month our group picked a short mystery novel and this one guy shows up with a binder. Not joking, 40 pages of printed notes, color coded, with footnotes. He spent the first 25 minutes going through every plot hole line by line. We were at the back room of a coffee shop in Austin and the barista actually came over to ask if we needed a table for a conference. The worst part is when someone tried to say the book was just meant to be fun, he said, and I quote, "Fun is a lazy excuse for weak structure." Nobody talked for a solid minute after that. Our host finally had to set a 5 minute timer for each person just to get through the night. Has anyone else had a member who turned a casual discussion into a thesis defense? How do you shut that down without making them quit the group?