The guy at my book club who argued that page numbers are a 'capitalist construct'

He said it with a straight face while holding a pristine hardcover, and when I asked if he'd rather use string to track his place, he just nodded slowly. Has anyone else had someone take a book club discussion way too seriously?

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willow7322d ago

Dude brought a special silk bookmark after all that talk? That's actually hilarious. Total backtrack.

wrenstone15d ago

Happened at my book club last month when this one guy spent 20 minutes explaining why the act of dog-earing a page was "violent towards the book's spirit." He said it like we were all sinners for folding corners. I just stared at my bent page and nodded along, but inside I was dying. Later he showed up with a silk bookmark he'd bought special, which kind of killed his whole anti consumerist vibe.

shane_ross15d ago

I mean, I'm over here using old gas station receipts as bookmarks and scribbling notes in the margins with a pen that leaks. According to that guy, I'm probably committing literary arson every time I crack a spine. If dog-earing is violent, my reading habits are a full on war crime. At least the guy with the silk bookmark had good intentions, I guess. I'm just out here treating my books like they owe me money.