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Devolution by Max Brooks

  Questions for Book Club January 15, 2022 1. Max Brooks writes: "I will let you judge for yourself if the following pages seem reasonably plausible." Do they? Does the premise of the novel—that Bigfoot exists—feel plausible to you? Why or why not? 2. Who, or what, are the Sasquatches, as portrayed in  Devolution ? Do you believe they exist? Does Max Brooks? 3. What was your experience reading  Devolution ? Did you find it suspenseful, frightening, gory, instructive? Something else? Or were you left, well… unmoved? 4. Talk about the tech-pioneers who formed the utopian community of Greenloop? What is their hope moving into a primeval rain forest—while still remaining linked to civilization by internet? Do you sympathize with their idealism, find them naive, or maybe hypocritical? 5. Whom in the novel are you most irritated by or impatient with? Which character do you most admire? 6. After Rainier's eruption, how and why does Mostar begin preparing for catastrophe—even tho