Dianne’s Comments (group member since Dec 31, 2021)

Dianne’s comments from the On Paths Unknown group.

Traveller wrote: "People, I've actually been feeling bad, because of my wanting to stick to my way of doing the reading/discussion, when that is perhaps not what the group wants or needs. If you guys feel better bri..."

My plan is to read each section cold, and then do the ancillary reading to catch up!

Traveller wrote: "Here's another very clear transition from his 33rd birthday back to when they were all children, and the latter is very explicitly stated here (Caddy is only seven), and heck, the transition happen..."

At this point I felt like I needed to make a chart!

Traveller wrote: "Ok, let's cheat a bit here. Admittedly the different servants can be confusing, so let's peek at a cheat sheet about how the servants fit together. (Heaven knows we have enough other things to try ..."

Thank you! Character cheat sheet super helpful!

Traveller wrote: "...then we go back in time, to where they were children, with the following passages in italics:

"Caddy uncaught me and we crawled through. Uncle Maury said to not let anybody see us, so we better..."

the time jump escaped me!

Traveller wrote: "Bonitaj wrote: "hello Traveller - Respectfully, to address your comment about "trying to immerse ourselves in the reading of the actual novel", I agree and yet, to those that are "drowning" in the ..."

To me (and having worked for years with individuals with intellectual disabilities or autism) Benji seems convincing. The repetition, the short phrasing, the repeated focus on things like smells.

Traveller wrote: "Bonitaj wrote: "If I may introduce another spoiler that doesn't take away too much from the story line please.
Were it not for some additional reading at the outset, I honestly doubt that I could'..."

This is a first time read for me, going in cold, and the way this section is written it seems like he is a young child, but then his age is revealed. The number of characters makes it really confusing past the first few pages.

Traveller wrote: "Oh, and back to a comment I had made earlier as to the stylistic genre of the novel; it is of course stylistically a modernist novel due to the stream-of-consciousness narration made popular by aut..."

Thanks so much for all of the great background! Will be interesting to see how this progresses from local to global - it is so deliberately confined as to time and place in the beginning!

I'm reading a physical copy and also listening to the audible narration by Grover Gardner - highly recommend!

I cannot believe I have never read this. I think I've been intimidated, but very excited for this group read to give it a real deep review and finally cross it off the list!

Starting 8/24 is great!

I would join the sound and the fury