My wife and I are watching through 30 Rock, and we just found out that her brother, Mitch (Andy Richter), went on a ski trip and had an accident in high school. So every day for the past 20 years he wakes up thinking he’s a high school kid going on a ski trip tomorrow. Sounded very familiar!
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Wow, you almost made it to the end! Here is the penultimate week:
It’s hard to believe but true: This week will be the last one!
Kudos to everybody who made it this far, and let’s enjoy the last bits of the story 
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To celebrate the end of this book, here is a…
Satisfaction Poll!
Have you read 博士の愛した数式?
- I finished it
- I’m still reading and I plan on finishing it
- I don’t plan to finish it
- I never even started it
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If you read the book, how would you rate it on a 5 point scale? (1: hated it, 5: loved it)
- 1
- 2
- 3
- 4
- 5
- Unsure / Didn’t finish
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If you read the book, how would you rate its difficulty?
- No effort at all
- Minimal effort
- Moderate effort
- Significant effort
- So much effort my head might explode
- I don’t know
0 voters
Participation Statistics
We started out with 24 readers (brown line), dropped to 16 readers in weeks 2 and 3, and from there on we finished with a steady count of 11-13 readers, which absolutely speaks for the book, I think!
Another interesting data point is the number of delayed readers (yellow line). In week 1, there were 8 delayed readers (and in week 2 the number of readers was 8 less than the week before), in weeks 2 and 3 we had 3 delayed readers each (and in the subsequent weeks the number of readers dropped by 3 each), so there seems to be some correlation between these numbers. In week 4 we had 2 delayed readers, and after that there were 0 or 1 delayed readers in each week. Again, I think that speaks for the book, be it in terms of writing style or contents.
And now I’m happy to hear your comments! What did you think of the book overall? Also, if you liked the author’s writing style, why not dig up one of her other works and nominate it for the book club?
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I think I might do that. There was a sci fi book that she wrote that looked cool, but it looked like it was a bit long for the intermediate club. I’ll look into it again after I finish buying a house next month.
Also, if you google around, the 2006 movie based on the book is available for streaming. My wife read the English version last week, so we’re going to give it a watch this weekend.
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Haha, 6 hours ago? I feel like I caught up with the book club 
I wonder if my participation is in the stats.
I loved it! And to think I almost didn’t read it at all…
The setting was actually really interesting. I was glad to see some of the maths I like in a regular book too!
Seeing the progression toward the end (especially the decrease in memory time) was painful, but in a good way!
I’m a bit sad I only chose to start this book once the club was over 
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I posted the satisfaction poll a week after the club officially ended, so well, officially you did not catch up 
But I think your numbers are in the statistics anyway as I only collected them right before posting (couldn’t find the time to do it earlier).
I’m really happy to see that you and most of the others liked the book! Looking forward to reading more books of this type in the club 
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I finally finished watching the movie (shady links were being shady). Overall it was OK. I don’t think I can rate it fairly having read the book, and naturally it didn’t live up to the book.
The story is told from Root’s perspective, while he’s giving his students their first mathematics lecture, which I liked. His lecture is really engaging, and its an excuse to jump out of the story and explain the math, at least a little bit.
Unfortunately, this means that we don’t get to hear anything from 家政婦’s perspective, and I think they generally dumbed her down a bit compared to the books.
The biggest difference was the lack of subtlety in some things–in particular, 博士’s relationship with his sister in law, which is overtly romantic by the end of the movie. There’s also an extra letter not mentioned in the books, and some dialogue that not so subtly implies that she aborted 博士’s child, which I guess explains 博士’s love of children to some extent.
Hey, did anyone notice how none of the characters have names? Is that our names are unimportant, and we are really defined by our roles?
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Cross-linking a poll that asks about your reading experience with this book:
Thanks for clicking along 
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