Unready
A weighty novel was chosen for the book club. Marjorie chose it - 856 pages! She hadn't read the book itself but merely an online critique. The other 6 book club members hadn't read it either.
Marjorie kicked off the discussion, spouting some poncy received opinion. Tony accused her of intellectualising a dull narrative whilst Gemma agreed with Marjorie. Penelope merely quoted the Evening Standard comment from the cover, hoping nobody realised. Nancy said nothing.
Peter said "I haven't read it because I didn't like it!" But Jack summed it up the best, "It's all bollocks!" he declared, scratching his own.
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Alex Munro about 8 years ago
Loved the different levels of deception, and the varying layers of time spent fabricating a response. You've got to love a psuedo intellectual or someone with pretensions. I'd love to say more, but I didn't actually read your drabble and I had an itch to scratch. Loved it Neville :-)
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Neville Hunt about 8 years ago
Thanks Alex. Loved your response too. As for the club participants, I've heard from an insider that most people don't read the books fully or even at all. They probably wouldn't read them if they were drabbles either! :-)
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D.M. about 8 years ago
'didn't mean to skip this one, from the comments, it was a good one...
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Neville Hunt about 8 years ago
Thanks D.M. It was prompted by mother-in-law saying she didn't usually read the books because she didn't like the other people's choices! She still went to the meetings though. (Seems to me that reading outside your normal choices would be the whole point of a book group!)
