Hugh’s Comments (group member since Jul 08, 2016)

Hugh’s comments from the Reading the Chunksters group.

I think Every Man Dies Alone is the same book as Alone in Berlin.

I read that one years ago and I don't remember it being long.

Sorry, I haven't been giving it much thought recently but we could do another round of nominations.

Welcome Cindy

Welcome Kathy Jo. I will try and organise another group read soon.

Thanks for all the hard work you have done on the summaries Brian, and thanks to you, Nidhi and Cat for keeping the discussions going. Sorry I never got hold of the book.

This is the final part of the discussion, and covers part IX (and any comments about the book as a whole).

Sorry, I must have forgotten to do this last week. Week 9 covers the whole of part VIII

This week's section covers the whole of part VII

This week's section covers the rest of part VI (Chapters 2 to 4).

This week's section covers the last three chapters of Part V and the first chapter of part VI.

This week's section covers chapter 2 of Part IV and the first two chapters of Part V.

This week's section covers the second half of Part III and the first chapter of part IV.

This week's section covers the final chapter of Part II and the first two chapters of Part III.

This week's section covers the three chapters of Part 2.

This section covers the three sections of Part I.

I'll start with a couple of apologies - firstly for taking so long to get this going and secondly for not having got hold of a copy of the book yet. This means that I can't do detailed chapter summaries (or ask the right starter questions). For me and for many British people of a certain age, this book will always be best remembered the 1980 BBC TV adaptation, which means that the story is familiar to me, but not the writing. So unless I do get round to finding the book, my participation in this discussion will be limited to starting the threads.

I have posted the schedule, assuming we are happy to start next week. I am not promising to read this one.

I propose that we go with Brian's option 2 for the reading schedule. Since I have kept you all waiting for too long, I propose starting week one on Sunday (October 1st).

So the schedule is:

Week 1 (Oct 1-7): Part I Ch 1-3
Week 2 (Oct 8-14): Part II Ch 1-3
Week 3 (Oct 15-21): Part II Ch 4, Part III Ch 1-2
Week 4 (Oct 22-28): Part III Ch 3-4, Part IV Ch 1
Week 5 (Oct 29-Nov 4): Part IV Ch 2, Part V Ch 1-2
Week 6 (Nov 5-11): _Part V Ch 3-5, Part VI Ch 1
Week 7 (Nov 12-18): Part VI Ch 2-4
Week 8 (Nov 19-25): Part VII Ch 1-3
Week 9 (Nov 26-Dec 2): Part VIII Ch 1-3
Week 10 (Dec 3-9): Part IX Ch 1-3

Sorry - my fault - I should have been organising this but have been too distracted by other groups and the Booker list. I expect to have time to get things moving tomorrow evening or Thursday.

I am out today but will post a full schedule later in the week.