獄門島 second read-through（金田一耕助 Reading Club）

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Welcome to the 獄門島 Reading Thread!

This book is part of the 金田一耕助 reading club. This is the second novel in the series, but can be read as a stand-alone.

The club has read this book before in 2022 – this is a second reading, for people like me who missed it first time around or anyone who wants to reread it.

The Natively page for the book has links to places to buy it as either paper or ebook.

We will start reading on October 4th.
There will be no weekly threads, all discussion will be had in this thread.

Reading Schedule

TBD, but probably one chapter a week (which would be a more leisurely pace than the first read-through)

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Proposed schedule; page numbers from the Kadokawa bunkoban edition:

Week Chapter Pages Page count
1 Prologue, chapter 1 5-69 65
2 chapter 2 70-111 42
3 chapter 3 112-166 55
4 chapter 4 167-236 70
5 chapter 5 237-273 37
6 chapter 6 274-305 32
7 chapter 7 and epilogue 306-353 48

That’s a little bit lumpy but the simplest split if we’re all OK with a 70 page week. It should be easy enough to find somewhere to split weeks 1 and 4 if anybody would prefer that.

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