Our group hit 37 straight meetings without a single person liking the main character

We track a few things in our club, like how many finish the book and who brings snacks. Last month I checked the notes and saw we had gone through 37 books in a row where the main character got zero votes for 'who you'd want to have a coffee with'. Not a single protagonist was liked. It mattered because it made us realize we keep picking books with deeply flawed or just plain awful leads, thinking they'll spark good talk. They do, but it's all about why the character is bad. We're missing out on talking about why a good person makes hard choices. It's changed how we pick books now. Has your club ever noticed a weird pattern like that in what you read?

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graceprice18d ago

You said you're missing out on talking about why a good person makes hard choices, but isn't that what you were doing? Talking about a flawed character's bad choices is still talking about choices. Maybe the pattern just means you all have really high standards for fictional coffee dates.

the_margaret18d ago

Maybe we just want to see the good guys sweat a little.

hernandez.morgan9d ago

Wait, you think coffee dates are the problem?