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>Bananas?
>Who the fuck is Roger Mexico?
>What's up with the octopus WTF?
>What's with the songs, can you shut up already?
>Katje is giving me a boner

So how did you guys like the first two weeks of reading?

Schedule:
September 20th: 1/8: Frontispiece to "Their footprints filled with ice, and a little later they were taken out to sea." Page: VN 109; O 92; PD 94.
October 4th: 2/8: From "In silence, hidden from her" to the end of part 1. Page: VN 211; O 177; PD 181.
October 18th: 3/8: The entire part 2, Un Perm' au Casino Herman Goering. Page: VN 331; O 278; PD 283.
November 1st: 4/8: From the beginning of part 3 to "hovering coyly over the pit of death..." Page: VN 455; O 383; PD 389.
November 15th: 5/8: From "A soft night" to "So somebody has to tell you." Page: VN 561; O 472; PD 480.
November 29th: 6/8: From "Halfway up the ladder" to the end of part 3. Page: VN 730; O 616; PD 629.
December 13th: 7/8: From the beginning of Part 4 to "Streets." Page: VN 821; O 692; PD 706.
December 27th: 8/8: From "Streets" to end of the book. Page: VN 902; O 760; PD 776.

Link to the youtube video: https://youtu.be/igdp6tFhTTI
ePub: http://gen.lib.rus.ec/book/index.php?md5=832D9BAF46AFEDEE8D83FDD471793F8F
GR Companion: http://gen.lib.rus.ec/book/index.php?md5=06838C53C16FFF0FD2E353ADB3F35436

>> No.11813444

Are you the bookchemist?

>> No.11813453
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>>11813444
No, I'm the guy graphing relations between characters and organisations on the telegram group.

>> No.11813608

>>11813453
but why?

>> No.11813648

>>11813608
Because my terrible memory. I don't remember most of the character and organisation names. Also it's really fun for me to analyse all these connections after reading, adds to the conspiracy-theory feel of the book. I've got this idea from Lectures on Literature by Nabokov, he made tons of such stuff to visualise the plot. I prefere keeping it in computer rather than scribbling on the book desu.

>> No.11814923

It doesn't seem like these threads are going to last. I have some hope from the telegram group though.

>> No.11815295

It's up.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=VcG-UyHzJUQ

>> No.11816593

bumpan

where you niggas at? outlined schedule is a little slow. just got done with part 1

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>>11816593
I read it like 5 years ago

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How do I access the telegram? I got banned from the /lit/ discord for posting this image

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>>11816725
>discord

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>>11816742
I uninstalled after I got banned so please don't arrest me.

>> No.11816825

Why don't we just make a new discord for reading groups and start with GR. litcord is terrible.

>> No.11817799

So slothrop was experimented on and was made to get a hard on whenever a rocket exploded? Whats up with the map of girls and Rogers map?

>> No.11817820

>>11816725
I don't know whether to be scared or to laugh

>> No.11817931

im having trouble following whats actually going on. what was up with that sewage adventure with slothrop anyways?
can he talk to dogs?
what the hell is the "white visitation"?

>> No.11817933

Whats some books and movies i should read/watch alongside? The wizard of oz, alice in wonderland, fear and loathing, withnail and i?

>> No.11817970

>>11817799
The map of girls is the map of girls he's had sex with, Roger's map is the map showing where the bombs fell. They're incredibly similar, it's the crux of the story.
>>11817931
It was a truth-serum-induced trip where they tried to gather intel on racial relations in the US for whatever reason. How they planned on steering it in that direction and what the sewage trip meant I have no idea. Some say the shit-filled drain is an allegory for the shit-filled history of the US.
White Visitation is the lab where they're keeping Slothtop I think

>> No.11818161

>>11817933
id say dr strangelove

>> No.11818217

>>11816725
https://t.me/joinchat/Ar7JXwv_T6BCqkjq-4AEKA

>> No.11818249

>>11817970
I thought White Visitation is just another name for st Veronica's hospital, which is where PISCES is located. Similarly, Pirate Prentice seems to sometimes just call PISCES "The Firm" for whatever reason.

>> No.11818264

>>11818249
actually, I just noticed these must be different place, there is a passage where Pointsman thinks it is Spectros turn to get dropped in at st Veronica's, as he got at White Visitation when it was his

>> No.11818275

>>11818264
so White Visitation is the place where Pointsman does his dog stuff, an octopus is held there I think (Grigori) and it houses PISCES

>> No.11818283

>>11817799
i think this is correct otherwise someone correct me.

loud sounds got him hard as a baby. pointsman believes something along the lines of he can perceive the explosion before it happens thats why his girl maps match where the rockets land
>>11817931
i didnt really get the meaning behind the sewage either. thinking back on it the serum seemed to expose truths about others but not slothrop himself

roger mexico talked to the dog. which i think is the only case in which something out of the ordinary happens to him so far.

the white visitation is a former nut house i believe? or still is. but is also being used by that one intelligence agency.

if someone could correct or clarify this it would be appreciated

>> No.11818439

why didn't he just stop having sex

>> No.11818456

>>11817970
not just similar, exact