Week 8 👁 眼球堂の殺人 ~The Book~! 👁

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Welcome to the eigth 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 :stop_sign: 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 :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 8 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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Yay! :grinning:
Continuing now.

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Finished week 8 and I’m really irritated with Towada’s character. Wished could just get to the point quickly. So I’m disappointed with this week’s read.

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Moreover he’s… just not very nice. Of course, it’s the “rude supergenius” trope, but so far, he’s lacking on the supergenius part. And authors always seem to forget that Sherlock Holmes was never mean to Watson, and in fact, quite often praised him. Not much real praise towards 藍子くん so far…
Unfortunately… I’m struggling with finishing Week 9 at the moment. Expect more speechifiying…

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Agree with you that Towada didn’t show much supergenius stuff. More like a naggy person.
I’ll read Week 9 next week because I want to read 変な家 to complete the Bingo challenge for Past book club.

Edit: Oops… I just noticed that Kadokawa has a sale until tomorrow night which includes the 三毛猫ホームズ series. So I’m going to read that first for Bingo’s Seeking Recommendations box :joy: and if I like the pace or the cat, I can buy more tomorrow. Sorry for digressing.

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AH ! I read that last summer, that was fun !

Never apologize for suggesting new books to read ! :rofl:

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Ahh yes this! I love the original Sherlock series and at most you could say Sherlock teases Watson a bit, but it’s good natured and not making a dunce of him. The adaptations always make him so cold.

I wasn’t super impressed with Towada or Aiko from the start (I could see what tropes we were playing with sadly…) and my impression hasn’t improved

This has to be one of those books where everything just falls into place super quickly near the end because god the pacing here is so horribly slow so far…here’s hoping when I catch up to week 9 it’s better!

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Was busy those few weeks and didn’t have time to read and now I can’t bring myself back to continue. I’m stuck at part 3 and it’s still way too boring :sob:

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Start skimming, it’s how I got through :rofl:Week 10 picks up the pace a bit though

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Oh no I wanted to be a good reader and read everything carefully :rofl: :rofl: :rofl:

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Me too. I like the feeling of accomplishment when I finish a book completely. If I were to skim through, I will count it as partial completion only…

That said, the only reason why I didn’t abandon this book halfway is because of this book club :rofl: If I were to read it alone, I would have given up a long time ago and it would be one of those book purchase that was “wasted”. :rofl:

I actually bought the かがみの孤城 novel version on Kindle and then after I watched about 20 mins of the anime and read the story review and knew the ending, I felt that I will not enjoy reading the novel. So, I decided not to read the novel anymore and deleted it from my purchase history from Amazon too because I don’t like having a book that is unread forever in my book list. :see_no_evil:

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My only reason as well.

I guess I would have dropped it after the first “murder” :grin:

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Hahaha I might not have even reached the first murder :melting_face:

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I have a question.
Does the way Towada walks indicate he has some disabilities? I’m trying to see if this book could fit into the Bingo challenge for character with disabilities. If not, I’ll put it under the Free box.

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I don’t think so :thinking: what did you think he might have?

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Some motor neuron disease? Haha maybe stretching a bit too much to fill the bingo card :sweat_smile:

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