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Pro tip: our club spent 25 minutes on the wrong chapter because nobody checked the edition
We sat in my friend Dana's living room in Scranton on Tuesday and half the group kept arguing about a scene that the other half swore was never in the book. Turns out three people had the 2004 paperback and four of us had the newer printing with an extra chapter in the middle, so page numbers and even chapter breaks did not line up at all. Now I want to know how other clubs handle this before we pick our next book, do you all agree on one edition or just wing it and hope?
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garcia.elliot19d ago
Seven people and not one of you cracked open the cover to check the printing? That blows my mind more than the extra chapter itself. My club got burned the same way last spring with a book that had a revised ending, and we wasted a whole meeting on it. Now we do one simple thing: the person who picks the book posts the exact ISBN in our group chat before anyone buys it. Takes ten seconds and nobody shows up with the wrong copy. Dana deserves better than a living room full of people yelling about a scene that only exists in half the books. Pick one edition as a rule, it saves the whole night.
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