Little Mushroom: Chapters 4-6 (EN) or 5-13 (CH)

[x_los]

Welcome to week 2's "Little Mushroom" (小蘑菇) discussion for English chapters 4-6 of Book 1 and Chinese chapters 5-13 (inclusive). This spreadsheet contains the schedule and concordances of the chapter endings across the Chinese and English versions. There's an associated Discord server (ask superborb for an invite if you'd like one), and we'll be running comment posts here.

This discussion will wrap up and next week's will begin on April 24th.

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SPOILER POLICY: I personally don't give a fuck or even like to give unearned credence to the concept, so since I'm writing the post, anything's fair game.

Comments

Chapter 5, EN

[x_los]

The bullet shell is sort of serving as a replacement for his absent spore.

This book sometimes feels like "Solaris" but from the planet's pov.

It takes three hours to get downtown on the tram? How big is this place? Or how slow is this tram...

Re: Chapter 5, EN

[superborb]

Yeah I was also like, six hours daily commute?! But I guess most people don't travel to the market daily...