I will talk to you about books, but don't ask me to join your book club

PLEASE don't make me join a book club.

I recently finished reading The Help.  In the back of the book, there were 10 questions or so that you might want to discuss in your book club.  I found them offensive.  I wish I had the book with me so I could post them, but generally, they insulted my intelligence while being boring at the same time.  These questions reminded me that I don't want to join a book club.

Once upon a time, far far away, I joined a book club.  It was with the ladies at work and we were reading Madame Bovary.  WHAT A MISTAKE.  Problem 1:  Madame Bovary is a terrible book.  It is boring and whiny.  I couldn't finish it.  It is supposed to be about infidelity or something, but I couldn't get that far, the whining was too much.  Problem 2:  When people talk about literature, they want to talk about how it was written and character development and what the writer was trying to say.  BOOOOOOORING.  When I read a book, I want to get caught up in the story.  I want to forget that I am reading and I just want to explore the new world I have joined.  If I even notice the writing style, I can't finish the book.  I only want to notice the pictures in my head.

Most of the books I have read lately, have been turned into movies.  For most of them, I saw the movie after reading the book.  I think this isn't working for me, I might have to switch the order of my movie viewing. 

If I were leading a discussion about the books I have read, I would like to also bring the movies into the discussion.  Here are the questions we would discuss:

1. In the hunger games, am I supposed to be on a team like Twilight?  Team Peeta or team Gale?  My team alliance changed with each book.
2. Don't you think Peeta in the movie should have been bigger?  I am thinking someone that looks more like the oldest kid on Home Improvement.
3. What did the wives from "The Help" do all day?  They didn't work and they had employees to take care of the house and the children.  Wheren't they bored?  No wonder they were catty gossips.
4. In the movie, I thought the actresses playing the two main maids would have been switched.  What do you think?
5. Do not read "The Help" while staying at a hotel.  You will suddenly feel guilty for having housekeeping come in to tidy your room.  Agree or Disagree?
6. Walt Disney did an awesome job of giving a plot to Pollyanna.  Agree or Disagree?

Do you have any other good discussion questions?

I read

When I was younger I was a nerd.  I read a lot.  I found that I missed out on a lot of real life experiences because I was off by myself reading a book.  I decided to stop reading and get a life.  I think it worked out pretty well.

Recently, I received some books as gifts and got a mobile device that allows me to read ebooks.  I decided to start reading again.  So far I have almost finished reading all three Hunger Games books, The Help, and Pollyanna.

I have rediscovered the problems of reading interesting books.  Somehow they get into your head deeper than TV or Movies.  If I had just seen the movies of all of these, they would have been interesting, but I wouldn't have thought about them that much after I saw them.  With the books, the stories started infiltrating every thought and took over my dreams.  I found myself making sure that I had a book to read during the 10 minutes it takes to give the baby her bottle.  I now understand why the hubby takes forever in the bathroom (He reads there.  I am not trying to suggest that reading gives me intestinal problems.).  I was neglecting my children and boring my husband by talking about the stories non stop.  The hubby reads all the time, and he is constantly telling me the details of his books, so I don't feel bad about paying him back.  I do feel guilty about neglecting the children.

I have even started listening to audio books.  I know, this is not technically the same as reading, but it does get the story stuck in your head for a while.

So the only question is, who has a suggestion for my next addiction?  Warning:  I don't want to read 50 shades of gray or any horror books.