We are following the below schedule (page counts may vary based on your medium):
Week
Up to
Approximate Pages
Approx. Percent
Paperback page
Week 1 - Feb 10
Read until Chapter 1, part 4
33
9%
Week 2 - Feb 17
Read until Chapter 1, part 7
39
18%
Week 3 - Feb 24
Read to end of Chapter 1
28
25%
Week 4 - Mar 03
Read until Chapter 2, part 3
30
32%
Week 5 - Mar 10
Read until Chapter 2, part 5
35
40%
Week 6 - Mar 17
Read until Chapter 2, part 7
29
46%
Week 7 - Mar 24
Read until Chapter 3, part 2
25
52%
Week 8 - Mar 31
Read until Chapter 3, part 5
38
61%
Week 9 - Apr 7
Read until Chapter 3, part 8
28
67%
Week 10 - Apr 14
Read to end of Chapter 4
46
78%
Week 11 - Apr 21
Read until 謎 part 3
40
87%
Week 12 - Apr 28
through end of epilogue
46
100%
I will generally copy this information over thread to thread each week for ease of finding - you can always expect the schedule at the top of any weekly thread
Law and Order
Any reveals, for the current chapters must be behind spoilers or detail curtains. When we get further in you don’t need to hide details that were revealed in previous chapters.
Questions on vocab, grammar, nuance, and the like are both welcome and encouraged. If you’re not sure if it’s a spoiler, assume it is and use one of the above options to hide the text.
You are encouraged to speculate and guess wildly
Be kind about other peoples’ wild guesses
Even if you don’t read the chapter(s) in time, you are still encouraged to post in the thread for that reading once you have finished it. I advise not reading ahead in the threads as you may see spoilers.
To gauge participation - a poll!
Are you reading week 10 of 眼球堂の殺人?
Yes, I’m planning to read along/am reading along this week
Something interesting is happening. I quite liked the « symmetrical » murders, and 平川 and 造道 turning on 藍子 and 十和田. But this happens… 75% into the book, which is way, way too late. And now we have to wait a whole week for the big reveal !
Nice pacing, btw !
Yes finally something happens and Towada actually tried to see if anyone opens the door haha. But I still feel the write used too many words just to explain the paper and door. The book should have been 200pages instead for so little plot development.
Agree the pacing on this is terrible. I think honestly a different author could write the same pace and I’d enjoy it more, though. Like if there were more character interactions, more conversations with theories that didn’t feel ridiculous, more back stories coming out to reveal potential motives…something. As it stands I’ve very much forgotten who all the dead people are aside from being various 先生
Anyways, seems like this is all going to have to do with geometry and eyeballs…and presumably we’ll find out whether the architect’s child was male or female
Haha yes, I had to refer to the characters’s name and occupation at the front to figure out who’s who. Who do you think is more likely to be the killer? I can’t decide haha…
I finally made some real progress and made it to the end of this week. It really did pick up slowly from chapter 2, but much more noticeably from the halfway point. Way too late.
I’m reasonably enjoying the latter half of the book, but with how slow the start was and how irritating the slow pace still is at times, it’s not a book I’d recommend.
I came to see if anyone had any interesting theories before continuing into he 謎解き portion. I’m totally lost. For all I know it could be 藍子. With all the talk about how the ground holds so much water, that theory someone had at the beginning with water levels causing the doors to look seems quite plausible. There was a sentence about the drainage system of the inner basin as well…
Law and Order 
