After the “Atlantis” chapter, readership dropped by half. I suspect a lot of people rushed to the end of the novel and decided they didn’t need to participate any longer.
I don’t like the non-linear answers that I’m coming up with. I hope that when everyone else has participated, you’ll furnish them ;-) Thanks for thinking them up. They’re too complex for me and I appreciate the exercise.
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I can’t speak for anyone else, but I haven’t missed a week. I tend not to want to post unless I have something interesting to say, which isn’t always the case. Your work, and Bill’s are always appreciated thought.
Or maybe summer has finally arrived and some of us spent the day outdoors and away from computers and now we’re getting around to tuning in. But a day in the great outdoors with beer flowing freely makes one very sleepy. Too tired to write.
Both you and Bill have given us a lot to think about. Cheryl deserved so much better.
I actually know exactly where they went, but I can’t tell you. :)
I was out of town for 2 weeks and we reviewed the threads over the last few weeks. I just got back in and we had to catch up last night by finishing this chapter. My wife is anxious to finish it now that we’re getting within sight of “The Speech”. :-)
Finished it years ago, but this is fun!
I must admit that I rushed through the book after getting about one third into it. But I still follow the threads and appreciate them very much!
The both of you have been providing excellent analysis and commentary, and I always come for that if nothing else.
This has so far been an excellent series of discussions among all who have participated, but here just as in real life I am more the listener, interjecting when I believe I have a special insight or certain expertise.
On the subject of this book I am content to allow the two of you (and several of the others on these threads) to run circles around me, confident that within my own areas of passion I can do the same.