Our book club paid $30 for a fancy annotated edition and nobody read the footnotes
We picked up this special hardcover of a classic novel for our monthly meetup, thinking the extra commentary would spark some solid debate. Cost us $30 each, which felt steep but we figured it'd be worth it for the insight. First meeting rolled around and everyone just skimmed the main text, barely touching the annotations. I spent 20 minutes on one page trying to connect the footnotes to the plot, and by the time I looked up, the group was arguing about the movie adaptation instead. Felt like a waste of cash and a missed chance to really dig into the author's intent. Has anyone else tried those special editions and actually gotten good discussion out of them?