Hot take: Group discussions beat solo reading every time for nonfiction books

I was in a book club last month where we read a dense history book about the silk road. On my own I got bored around page 50 and almost quit. But when we met at Linda's house on Tuesday night, three other people had caught details I completely missed. One guy even found a map online that showed the trade routes we were arguing about. Has anyone else found that a good debate makes a boring book actually interesting?

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jamesm4821d ago

Did you guys also end up going on a Wikipedia deep dive after those meetings?

thompson.nathan21d agoMost Upvoted

Oh wow, that's a great point @jamesm48, I think the deeper dive stuff hits different when you're trying to win an argument at the next meeting.