Reading the Chunksters discussion

As promised, guys, I am posting the very tentative schedule for Dhalgren

The novel is quite tricky in its parts: some of them are easy and the weekly manageable size, and some are big and chunky:-)

That is why the reading schedule is only tentative, and I would be very happy to listen to your suggestions or ideas how to improve it and make it easy to follow.

This is what I came up with.

November 30 (yes, I am painfully aware that it is way behind the date we discussed earlier:-)) - PART I Prism, Mirror, Lense (ONE WEEK)

December 07 - PART II The Ruins of Morning (ONE WEEK)

December 14- December 31 - PART III House of the Ax. (THREE WEEKS - we can break it later into smaller segments not to lose track of each other's progress)

January 1 - January 10 - PART IV the Time of Plague (TEN DAYS)

January 10 - January 24 - PART V Creature of Light and Darkness (TOW WEEKS)

January 25 - February 10 - PART VI Palimpsest (TWO+ WEEKS)

February 11 - February 28 - PART VII - The Anathemata (TWO+ WEEKS)

As I mentioned earlier, the book is not easy to compartmentalize, so if anyone who wants to do this buddy read, has any ideas how to split it evenly, please let me know.

My idea is to agree later on bigger parts and see how we are handling them. We can divide further into smaller fragments after the buddy read starts and comment on smaller parts.

Post bellow what you think about this schedule and the date. It would also be nice to know what edition you guys are using; it might help us in future when we deal with chunkier parts in the novel.

Hi Zulfiya I hope you are taking care of yourself! This schedule looks great to me. Thank you so much for all the hard work in putting it together.

I have the Vintage edition. It has a red cover.

Thanks again :)

My opinion!

I read Dhalgren some years back . . . umm ... many years back . . . and will be reading it again with all of you. My guess is you will come away either loving it or hating it, but no one will have a middling feeling about it. For me this was not an easy book to read. It's easy to miss things, and I had to re-read many passages. But I came away loving it. It's schizophrenic, innovative, and challenging. All social conventions and mores are thrown to the wind. So this tentative schedule looks like a great start.

Looks good to me. Thanks for putting it together. I have the Vintage edition (red cover, forward by Wm Gibson)

I'll be using the Kindle version but I don't have it quite yet. My only question is why is the one section that starts 1/1/15 ten days long?

There are more than 50 pages, and I thought it would take longer to read them.

It seems like most of us have the same edition. Sarah, I hope you will have no problems because one can easily find the right place in kindle editions by using the search option.

I'll be good. I like to search them out ahead of time and tab the pages so I don't over read.

I am going to start today; otherwise, I will be late and will have to play catch-up. I wish we had 25 hours a day; I am sure many of you can relate to my sentiment:-)

I finished our reading for next week since this coming week is going to be so busy. So, I'll be ready to chat about it next week :).

This is a Kindle monthly deal.....I guess most of you have it already but in case you have a library copy and would like your own!