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My book club spent 45 minutes arguing about whether the narrator was reliable and it made me realize we were all reading different books
My friend Sarah pointed out that the unreliable narrator debate only applies if you ignore the first chapter being in third person, and that hit different because she had the annotated edition with the author's notes, so now I'm wondering if our whole discussion was based on a version I didn't even read.
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lilya767d ago
Oh man, that's so true! I've totally been in situations where I'm arguing with someone about a plot point, and then it turns out they have the original hardcover and I have the mass market paperback and a whole paragraph is different. It makes you wonder how many online arguments are just people fighting over different editions...
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evan_green527d ago
That bit about the annotated edition really got me thinking. I used to think our book club debates were just about interpretation, but you might be right that we're sometimes arguing about different versions entirely without realizing it.
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stellaperry7d ago
That bit about the annotated edition" is exactly what made me wonder something else though. What if some of us read the original release and others read a revised paperback that changed small details? I swear my copy has a line in chapter 4 that nobody else seems to remember.
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