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Welcome to Week 4's "Little Mushroom" (小蘑菇) discussion for English chapters 10 - 12 of Book 1 and Chinese chapters 21 - 24 (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
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This discussion will wrap up and next week's will begin on May 8th.
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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.
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This discussion will wrap up and next week's will begin on May 8th.
Chinese text
English text
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.
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Chapter 10, EN
“-yanked the steering wheel around!” I don't know that that you can use an exclamation point in uninflected narration like this? It happens both here and in the succeeding sentence.
Chapter 11, EN
I need characters to stop saying “thank you for your hard work” out loud to one another, it’s so weird.
This is maybe the best chapter so far in terms of social dynamics, using this action set-piece to illustrate the position of these people. The imagery and descriptions are more engaging than they've been thus far.
What a strange final line. This chapter just stops.
Re: Chapter 11, EN
Chapter 12, EN
Maybe that line about the inner city having a different security system means that's somewhere the book hasn't taken us yet, where An Zhe hasn't yet had occasion to go.
Why did they retreat to District 6 in preference to the inner city, then? Was it just closer?
Re: Chapter 12, EN
I wonder if we're about to get some class difference, if there's a higher security residential area than where everyone else gets to live.