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Thought our book club was too soft on plot holes until a guy in Austin showed me how to grade them
I used to roll my eyes at our book club's whole "rate the plot holes" thing because it felt like nitpicking. Last month we read a thriller with this huge twist where a character somehow drove from Dallas to El Paso in two hours, and half the group let it slide. I was ready to write off the whole format for good. Then a newer member named Dave, who teaches eighth grade science, pulled out this simple 1 to 5 scale he uses with his students. He asked us to name one book where a medium plot hole actually made the story better, not worse. We ended up talking for 50 minutes about how some holes are just lazy and others are intentional, and he pointed out that the 2 hour drive was mentioned twice with different times. Suddenly I saw the point. Now I keep a little notebook of holes and rate them after each meeting. Has anyone else found a simple grading trick that made their club debates way more useful?
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