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Unpopular opinion: 'To Kill a Mockingbird' is overrated and my book club nearly ended over it
Last month at the Maplewood Public Library, my book club had a huge blowup over this. I said Atticus is a flat character and the whole white savior thing bugs me. Three people walked out. One lady named Carol literally said 'you're ruining the classics.' But honestly, after 15 years in a book club, I think we put too many books on a pedestal just because they're old. Has anyone else had a book pick tear their group apart?
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wyatt_shah8526d ago
My book club almost broke up over "The Great Gatsby" and I'm still not sure if I started it or if it was the wine, but I called Gatsby a glorified stalker with a boat and someone threw a napkin at me. I mean, maybe it's just me but I feel like some of these older books get a pass just because they've been around forever. Idk, I get that Atticus is supposed to be this moral compass but I always thought he was kind of boring too, like he's just there to be perfect and it feels fake. Carol sounds like she'd be fun at parties though, probably the same person who yells at you for not liking "Moby-Dick" because it's a "cultural touchstone" or whatever. Honestly, maybe we need book club insurance or something, a signed waiver that says "I promise not to cry when someone hates the book you cried to in high school.
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terrywilson26d ago
Wait, you threw a napkin over a book opinion?
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