犬神家の一族（金田一耕助 Reading Club）

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#1

Welcome to the 犬神家の一族 Reading Thread!

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This book is part of the 金田一耕助 reading club. The title story is (chronologically) the sixth novel-length story, but can be read as a stand-alone.

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We will start reading on February 13.
There will be no weekly threads, all discussion will be had in this thread.

Reading Schedule TBA

Week Start Date Start at Section Page Count

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金田一耕助 Series Reading Club - NEXT: 犬神家の一族 (Starting Feb 13 '23!)
金田一耕助 Series Reading Club - NEXT: 犬神家の一族 (Starting Feb 13 '23!)
#2

How fast do we want to read this? Here’s the table of contents:

Prologue: p5 – 10 pages
Chapter 1: p15 – 40 pages
Chapter 2: p55 – 53 pages
Chapter 3: p108 – 42 pages
Chapter 4: p150 – 38 pages
Chapter 5: p188 – 38 pages
Chapter 6: p226 – 37 pages
Chapter 7: p263 – 54 pages
Chapter 8: p317 – 61 pages
Chapter 9: p378 – 29 pages
Ending: p407 – 7 pages
(book ends p414, no afterword)

If 40-50 pages a week is OK we could roll the prologue and chapter 1 into one week, and chapter 9 and the ending into one week, and otherwise do a chapter a week ? Or I can look for split points, eg in chapter 8 which is the longest.

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#3

… there’s no notification for edits. :man_facepalming:

Anyway, thank you!

Combining the prologue and ch1 as well as ch9 and the ending sounds good to me.

We’ve had crazy long chapters before, and this time there’s a lot of shorter weeks as well, so I don’t think it’ll be necessary to further split even chapter 8… That said, if anyone would like to do that, I’m certainly not against it!

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#4

Sounds good to me

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#5

I agree. That will make for a nine week schedule, with the last week being the week of April 10th.

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#6

By the way, you missed something :slight_smile:

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