Week 5 spoiler Same, and I was also kinda sad, cause he was the most interesting character so far. I wonder what the MC’s next move is gonna be. Given the genre is horror, I think we’re still missing something big about the 기억술사. Or the main character. Or someone in his surroundings. Or it’s a misdirect, there’s no horror element, and we’re waiting for nothing. Anyways, I think I’m gonna keep going and ignore the schedule, sorry guys 
I decided I didn’t want to read too many books simultaneously right now. I’ll try and write my thoughts every 10% and post them at the appropriate time!
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week 5 snippets:
“기다리고 있습니다, 기억술사님."
전에도 와보긴 했지만 교내로 들어갈 수 없어서 교문 밖을 어슬렁거리다가 낯익은 소녀와 마주쳤다.
he’s just casually skulking about out in front of high schools 
what is this behaviour
나로서는 그 감각이 처음이 아니었다. 아아, 또.
lmao this tickled me. Poor guy just constantly bumping into ppl with wiped memories this is an actual issue in his life at this point.
I’m kind of feeling pulled back in now.
교코 presumable asked for her own memories to be erased and potentially asked for 료’s to be as well? But would it fit the criteria? But then i guess the criteria were just described as “is the requestor telling the truth about the circumstances & their motive for making the request?” so the bar is low i guess. but again maybe 기억술사 just wiped 료’s memories to get him to stop investigating.
And someone wiped something from 마키’s memories when she was younger but we don’t know who or what. But maybe like a death in the family or something from how it was described?
A bigger confusion for me tho is if 다카하라 specifically searched out the 기억술사 in order to have 나나미’s memories erased, what was in the letter?? why leave her a letter at all? he said it was ‘insurance’ but…insurance in case of what? 
I will say though 료 being motivated to get to the bottom of the mystery about 기억술사 because of his own memories being wiped now as well is way better than chasing it down just because he’s sadboy about 교코 forgetting him.
I feel like we’ve not seen the negative side of someone’s memories being wiped, maybe that’s on the cards when he eventually finds that highschool student.
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Had a really busy week and only made it to 45%…oops 
I will catch up! Looking forward to clicking on the spoiler tags in everyone’s posts.
Updating the thread title to week 6 now, let’s go!
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I read week 6 and I don’t have much to say other than
I don’t like the main character and Maki at all, like what is their relationship supposed to be? When he says he would feel weird if she brought a boyfriend around I’m like 
And at the very end we get another POV change. Lovely.
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I read your comment before finishing week 5 the other day and I found it so funny it gave me the push I needed to keep going.
I did laugh out loud at the “아아, 또,” he sounds so over it hahaha
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week 6 - p148 to 177 of 269
Lmao it’s so farcical that he’s trying to hunt down the girl in 마키’s school but also doing everything he can to ignore 마키.
Had to go to 나무위키 to find out what this use of 번개 was
온라인 채팅이나 게시판을 통해 알게 된 사람을 번개처럼 갑자기 계획 없이 만난다는 뜻으로[1] 번개모임, 번개팅이라고 부르기도 한다.
의미가 확장되어 이미 충분히 알고 있는 사람들끼리 대규모로 갑자기 모이는 것도 번개라고 부르기도 한다.
interesting! don’t think i’ve ever come across this one before.
In main character news:
“내가 좋아했던 사람도 기억술사를 만나서 나에 대한 것을 모두 잊어버렸어!”
unfortunately he’s back on his bs 
i actually finished this book last week. i’d read ahead and took notes which is what i usually do but then finished it before i went on hol. If other ppl are still reading & posting i’ll post the rest of my thoughts on the thread later otherwise i’ll just summarize.
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Ok that’s funny, because the whole time I just thought he was calling it that because they were planning on doing a really fast operation. Like, “oh who’s the 기억술사? Oh we’re about to find out! At 
lightning speed ”
On another note, I see your grading brought the book to level 27, as predicted by the prophecy.
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Yeah 번개 모임 is an ad-hoc meeting. Sometimes shortened to 벙 irl. It’s because lightning strikes suddenly and unexpectedly.
(Wait sorry I didn’t read the Korean you attached until after posting this lol)
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Slightly late in update the thread title but we are now in week 8! 
(Apologies for not keeping up, been having some busy times lately)
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All I can say is I finished the book in week 6 and I am waiting for all of you to catch up hahaha sorry
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I found the end of week 8 particularly hard to read, has anyone else had the same impression? We kind of switched gears in the beginning of the new chapter, and I had to do a lot more lookups than in the previous ones.
I’m starting week 9 now, hopefully the pace (and vocab) will be a bit more consistent.
Yeah the shift from action based plot towards the end chapters upped the difficulty level for me too.
Bit delayed so adding my thoughts under some read-mores.
Week 7 p177-207
Oh yey it’s infodump time…
옛날과 같은 짧은 머리에 남색 세일러복. 지금은 어쩐지 여자로 보였다.
Don’t say that right after describing her in her school uniform. Like i know he’s also a student but. 
author why you doing this to us.
“쇼트커트의 그 애인가요? 사귀나요? 그래서 안 되는 건가요?”
“미사오는 관계없어.”
짜증이 났다.
이유가 필요해? 내가 왜 그걸 설명해야 하는데?
Oh so the boys are allowed to reject ppl with no questions asked? I see.
부탁이니까 그만해.
how i felt this whole section.
question - Was he hallucinating 미사오’s voice outside the school?
Vocab - 쪽지시험 quiz
Week 8 p207-237
“아니면, 그래요, 그녀는 다시 당신을 사랑하게 될지도 몰라요. 무슨 일이 있었는지 모르니까.”
손톱 끝으로, 웃는 모양을 짓던 입술을 더듬듯 만지작거리며 그녀는 말했다.
“······그러면 또, 지워버리면 되죠.”
I did like the question of “what if history just repeated itself”
Also yeah sure ofc 미사오 had to lose her memories just to make him more comfortable. 
가나메는 내가 기억술사에 관한 풍문을 조사하고 있는 대학생이라고만 소개했다.
“기억술사란 건 도시전설의 하나죠?”
Lol wait there is like a full rumour going around the school about 미사오 being a victim of 기억술사 and she doesn’t even know?
Week 9 p237-267
At no point until now has the 기억술사 actually seemed scary, but now I feel like the author is leaning into the inherent horror a bit. how can you deal with this person who just wipes people’s minds?
나는 그의 본명을 몰랐다. 그리고 그는 이제 ‘DD’가 아니었다.
Good line
(다음에는 누구의 기억이 지워질까.)
This is good, I like this plot. Which the book has been more of this kind of thing.
그러나 내가 기억하는 한은 이제부터가 최초의 접촉이다
A confusing 한 
(내가 기억술사를 무섭다거나 싫다고 생각하는 이유도 잃어버린 내 기억 속에 있는 건가?)
this! this is what i like to see. this could have been a horror. this had so much potential as a horror 
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aaaaaand week 10 is done!
I agree! The end of the book leaned on the horror / dread a lot more than it did at first. I wonder if the second book will pick up where it left off - not the plot / characters, but the genre if that makes sense. The reader has been introduced to the 기억술사, they get why it’s scary, let’s explore that a bit more in depth.
I won’t be the one to find out if that’s the case because I don’t plan on reading the rest of the series for now, but if anyone does I would be curious to know!
Another thing that I would be interested in getting another perspective on: why is the catchphrase of the synopsis “잊혀지는 것보다 두려운 건 너에게 기억되는 거야”? Who is this in reference to? I’ve been trying to figure it out all throughout the book, but it’s still unclear. Is it 마키 saying being remembered by the main character would be painful now that he knows what she has done / is doing?
As for final impressions, I didn’t like the first part of the book because of the way women / girls were described, but from the first POV change onward I got more and more into it. The ending didn’t go the way I would have liked, but oh well, at least I did enjoy the part from chapter 2 to the last chapter.
It was fun reading with a book club!!
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yes this is how i read it as well!
Based on everyone’s ratings we’re unlikely to know if any of the other books in this series are any better still not the worst book i’ve read in korea but i won’t be picking up book 2 for sure.
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Well now that we’re finally done I can say I really disliked this book and found the ending so corny and predictable. Plus the weird treatment of women throughout the book – I was rolling my eyes during that segment about the boy whose female friend got a crush on him and he called it a betrayal and she decided to forget her feelings so they could be friends again uwu so wholesome. And of course the gem said by Maki like 한 번만 날 여자로 봐줘. This book was full of incels and femcels alike…
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