Week 11 👁 眼球堂の殺人 ~The Book~! 👁

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Welcome to the eleventh week of 眼球堂の殺人 ~The Book~！ :eye: :mirror_ball: :eye:!

Home thread for announcements, wiki, etc

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 :stop_sign: 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 :slight_smile:

:policeman: Law and Order :policewoman:

  • 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 :sparkling_heart:
  • 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 11 of 眼球堂の殺人?

  • Yes, I’m planning to read along/am reading along this week
  • I’m reading, but not at the same pace as the club
  • I’m just following the discussion :popcorn:
0 voters

Happy sleuthing! :male_detective:

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I … really don’t know what to think about this chapter. On the one hand, it was fun ! it was better written than the rest of the book, and seeing how some little clues from earlier fitted in the solution was nice. However…
The solution is that an architect with delusions of grandeur decided to prove to the world that his field was way above all others, by killing other scientists/experts, for which purpose he built a house shaped like an eyeball on the north side of a mountain in a remote area, said house being a remote controlled killing machine that operates as a closed room, leads people to their death by rotating on itself, and can be accessed by swimming across a moat filled by water from the mountain streams, all being invisible because it’s made of marble ?.. when he’s not killing or swimming, he’s hiding in a place invisible to all but STILL stylistically in line with the rest of the compound.
We’re out of Classic Bond Villain territory and straight into Austin Powers/Kingsman realm…

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Wow! You are fast!
I read and fell asleep and I’m at 82% only now haha. The book is still quite boring to me. Towada is still giving lectures on geometry and symmetry and repeating the obvious of the way the 5 ppl died

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It’s a holiday weekend, and I’m on call, which means I have to sit at home waiting for the phone to ring….

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Finished Week 11.

Still the most boring explanation about the water and hiding. Is there a toilet at the poles too? And since I am not familiar with the perfect number I didn’t know what he meant by “missing one”. But after googling Explanation of perfect number , I still don’t know why the architect must put the quantity of poles in based on perfect number. Is it because he wants the building to be perfect?

Btw I will be continuing to Week 12 now as I want to be done with this boring book asap and then read other more interesting books.