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That's probably a reasonable solution . . .
that might work up to a point!
Just don't expect it to work 100% of the time. The best books, of any type and genre, deal with ideas. Ideas are the core of what books are about. At some point, if you intend to discuss a book, you need to discuss the ideas behind it.
My advice would be for the moderators to get together and decide, at least in a generic sense, at what point the dialog has passed the very fine and almost invisible line from a discussion about a book into something else. If you don't, your enforcement of this will be inconsistent to say the least.
Your enforcement will be inconsistent anyway, it's impossible to police this sort of thing with absolute accuracy and fairness, but this will make you less inconsistent, and help the moderators feel better about the marginal situations.
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