Spent 3 hours arguing over whether the main character was a unreliable narrator or just confused

My book club spent our whole March meeting debating if the narrator in *The Silent Patient* was purposely lying or just didn't remember things right. I kept saying he was unreliable from page one but two other members pushed back hard. We never actually agreed on it after three hours of going back and forth. Has anyone else had a debate like that where you just couldn't settle it?

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lindab4926d ago

Oh man, yes! My book club spent two entire meetings on Gone Girl going back and forth about Amy. I was in the "she's completely unreliable" camp and my friend swore she was just "misunderstood." We never agreed either. It is so frustrating when nobody will budge!

murray.spencer26d ago

Nobody's talking about what she did to the neighbor lady's cat. That's the one detail that made me stop trying to justify anything about her.