This is how I feel every time @Ditto20 mentions everything they’re reading. 
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Some people were born fluent, some people were fluent to be born…
Edit: Azula never lies. Azula never lies.
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I’ve seen the Sword Art Online Alternative anime so it might be an easier reading because of that 
Big books still scare me though, I’m not confident I could keep up.
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I hope you don’t mind that I replaced the last book in the list with this since it seemed like a better suggestion. Hopefully I linked to the right thing 
(I also added some links to the bookwalker pages, which have sample pages, for the books with good samples).
And since the thing most people seem concerned about seems to be the pace, what kind of pace does everyone think would be reasonable for them for these kinds of books?
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I’d be happy to to join a group like this. Definitely interested in reading some SAO (can you tell from my avatar? 
). I had been putting off reading it when I started reading light novels, since it looked hard, but that was a while ago, and I can read Re Zero with little difficulty. I am open to other books too though.
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Well I’d like to not read a single book for half a year, but I’m also not capable of reading 30 pages a week right now. I already own the first two volumes of 獣の奏者, but I wasn’t planning to start them until late this year or early next year. That said, depending on what pace was selected and when it was being read, I would consider dropping a lot of other things to read this.
There’s already a thread for that if you don’t mind random discussions instead of a weekly schedule.
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Well, how much do you think you could manage? 
at, say, 50% effort (so that catching up if anything happen isn’t impossible)
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Uhh, it’s kinda hard to say. With intermediate book club I’ve been reading 10-20 pages a week, along with some manga on my own. This does include some wiggle room, so if I get a bit behind I could probably catch up. It’s also just an endless dilemma because I really need to dedicate some time for grammar study so I don’t get tripped up by grammar as much as I do. Plus sometimes I just don’t feel like reading.
If I didn’t read any other books or manga and didn’t do any explicit grammar study, I might be able to read 30 pages a week. But it probably wouldn’t be a good idea and it could result in me not enjoying a book that I otherwise might enjoy.
There’s a reason I wasn’t planning to read 獣の奏者 quite yet. I think finishing コンビニ人間, reading one more intermediate book like 魔法少女育成計画, and finishing going through all the N3 grammar points (and some common N2 grammar points) would go a long way to making my reading smoother.
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Right, that sounds like 100% effort. So, yeah, 15-20 pages a week (aka 50-66% effort) sounds appropriate. I’m actually fine with that, by the way.
Obviously, waiting is fine too; we can read something else.
Count me in. My only concern right now is that I’m trying to cut back on the number of books I’m reading at once to really focus on 1 or 2 at a time and maintain the flow but that should be fine after ハルヒ and/or コンビニ.
My other problem is that most of my reading time goes towards VNs right now instead of actual books so the pace would be a factor. Probably 5 pages a day or so would be my limit. If anyone ever wanted to do a VN club though, I’d be interested. It could help to have some motivation when you’re reading something for 100+ hours. Although that might be too hard for a number of reasons (getting copies, taste, expense, harder to pick up and read anywhere).
There was a thread about this earlier that didn’t get much interest but the one long book I’m already planning on reading is 風が強く吹いている which is 512 pages. It’s about college students forming a team of runners and trying to qualify for the 箱根駅伝. It doesn’t seem particularly difficult from what I’ve read so far and I enjoyed the anime a lot.
I would read most of the suggestions so far too.
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ペンギンハイウェー has been suggested in the past, and I think it’s been turned down because of its length. It’s 365 pages (with images), so not quite so long as your suggestions, but perhaps?
So far, though, reading Haruhi has… not been fun. Not because of the subject matter, that is, but because it takes me about half an hour per page (and also the fact that I can’t seem to read aloud fluently to save my life).
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I’m still annoyed that I bought the Tsubasa Bunko version of Penguin Highway. 
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It’ll be easier to discuss options after the next book club votes. If one (or more) of the books I already own wins (i.e. 霧の向こうの不思議な町 or 魔法少女育成計画), then it makes sense for me to read those with the regular book clubs first.
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First of all, thanks for all the comments and suggestions
Since at least a few people seem to be interested, I’m thinking I’ll make a poll sometime later(not today, at least) with the books everyone have suggested until then to see how many people would be interested in reading each book, and then I’ll maybe make a separate poll a while after that about the pace. That sound ok? Though, since most people interested in 獣の奏者 seem to feel like they’re not quite ready for reading it yet, maybe I’ll leave that out of the poll for now, so they have a better chance to prepare?
I mostly just wanted to read something longer than the normal book club books, so I’m fine with going at a slower pace too if that’s what people want, too(I figure the advanced book club someone proposed a while ago will have a much faster pace anyway if that takes off and then be able to fulfil that for those of us who also want something faster paced, so it doesn’t make much sense to potentially have two really similar book clubs, which is why this is about reading books that are too long for the current bookclubs, but not necessarily at lightspeed, though we can do that too if that’s what people want)
That sounds like an interesting idea. While there may be some things that would need to be figured out for that to work, I’d join if someone else did the figuring out and set it up
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I am really keen on reading something from this author, so I would also be interested in a 獣の奏者 group. I have another book I’ll be finishing soon that I’m reading at around 35 pages a week.
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First of all, scroll down if you want a poll
Anyway, about the poll, I just want to say that I chose to not include a few of the suggestions(mostly mine though. I mostly just want to read a book that’s too long for the normal book clubs, which one is not as important to me).
I didn’t include the SAO spin-offs, because we already have the miscellaneous discussion thread and I mostly just initially mentioned them because I couldn’t think of enough examples of books that were too long for the book clubs even if I knew they existed. Anyone who wants to read SAO and discuss or try to ask questions is very welcome over in that topic though
Second, I didn’t include 獣の奏者 because at least a few people who are interested in it seem to want to wait a while before they read it, so I figure it may make more sense to either make a reading group for it later, or to create a miscellaneous discussion thread so some people can read it now and some later.
Anyway, here is the poll:
Do you want to read any of the following books in a group?
- ペンギン・ハイウェイ
- 風が強く吹いている
- オーバーロード
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I know that’s not a lot to choose from, but that’s mostly because there weren’t a lot of suggestions. I figure we’ll see if there’s enough interest to read one of them from the votes in the poll. It’s 2 books that were suggested in this thread + 1 I’ve seen mentioned elsewhere, all of which would be too long for the currently existing book clubs.
I’ll make separate polls about pace and when to start later if there is enough interest
Also, here are links to the bookwalker pages for all of them since bookwalker has sample pages:
The difficulty varies quite a bit, so that may be worth considering when voting(though I’ll imagine we’ll also adapt the pace to the difficulty of the chosen book to some extent)
Also, I know very little about all three books, so if anyone thinks reading one of them is a particularly good or bad idea, feel free to say so(and if I messed something up, please do say that too 
)
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I’ve check the example pages…
One day I’ll be able to join…
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I don’t know anything about ペンギン・ハイウェイ but I’ll check it out. May update my vote later if it seems interesting.
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I’ve already read ペンギン・ハイウェイ, so I didn’t vote for it above (although I’d like to reread it in the future when I’m at a higher level), but I really enjoyed it, so I’d definitely recommend the book to anyone considering picking it up.
I was the one who originally posted the thread about 風が強く吹いている – life got in the way of me starting it at first; I recently finally began reading it, but I think the number of kanji per page I don’t know yet is too high at the moment for such a long read to be really worthwhile for me. I might switch to something else for the time being and pick it back up later when I’ve reached a higher level on WaniKani. I’m glad to see I’m not the only one interested, though, especially as I thought the anime adaptation was quite strong.
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I’m going a bit crazy with reading lately so I think (if I haven’t miscalculated hard the amount of free time I’m going to have the rest of the year) I would like to try joining if you read 風が強く吹いている or オーバーロード, even if I can’t keep up with the pace. If the speed improvement is anything like I’ve had with previous books maybe I can catch up eventually since they are long. Or maybe not if the pace is super fast, but still.
I guess I won’t vote since there is no guarantee I can really make it, but I thought I’d at least say I’m interested.
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