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Rant: My book club in Austin spent 45 minutes arguing about the ending of 'Klara and the Sun' before I realized we'd all read different editions
One person quoted a line about the rain that wasn't in my copy, and it completely changed the debate. Has your group ever had a version mix-up derail a whole discussion?
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rowan_black5mo ago
We had the same mess with "The Martian." Someone's ebook had extra technical notes that changed a key plot point. It wasted half our meeting before we figured it out. Publishers should really standardize these editions.
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aaron8455mo ago
That "extra technical notes" thing is why our club now checks ISBNs before we meet.
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kevin_wells464mo ago
Hang on though, "The Martian" ebook thing wasn't really extra technical notes. That book had a whole different chapter layout in some versions. One edition had a deleted scene from the movie tacked on as an appendix, and another one just had a different introduction by Weir. That's more of a formatting issue than a technical notes problem. Your club might need to check both the ISBN and the publication date to catch those differences.
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