http://artsbeat.blogs.nytimes.com: These days, it seems, any book that stands a chance of being read by more than five people must include a reader’s discussion guide: a set of proposed questions at the back of the book for lazy book-group leaders and readers too timid to start conversations on their own.Even the coming novel “Sense and Sensibility and Sea Monsters” by Jane Austen and Ben H. Winters, includes a discussion guide. But given that it’s a satirical work that combines Austen’s original text with sinister, tentacled creatures, its living co-author has decided to have a little fun with the questions.
Among the discussion topics that Mr. Winters suggests:
5. Which would be worse: being eaten by a shark or consumed by the acidic stomach juice of a sand-shambling man-o’-war?
8. Have you ever been romantically involved with someone who turned out to be a sea witch?
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I still haven’t read this book but these are really funny questions. This could be a lot of fun to do!
Have you read this book?
If it was featured on OBS would you participate?
