How best to pass the time if the only reading material available is the famous Brown Corpus of English airport literature? Especially if it comes as an audiobook, it is possible to spruce up the experience by calling out the torrent of clichés.
Health warning: Note that attempting to turn this into a drinking game may result in a stomach pumping, depending on the book.
For the duration of the game, players may pick a group or faction
that they will root for, scoring one point for every
sentence in which they're mentioned.
(It won't do to pick the main characters, that'd be too easy.)
Subtract a point instead if the organization does not currently
have the upper hand in the plot.
Participants may find that arguing about what counts as
winning
can have the happy effect of extending playtime by several hours.
At the beginning of a new chapter, players take turns picking out watchwords they think will pop up. To even out the odds, the first pick should be rotated equitably and choosing of watchwords should end in the round where there are fewer words left than players.