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Looks like I never put in my previous progress, reading chapter 5 (the first of four in this volume). Oops.

My (extended) family wanted to try reading a play together on Zoom, and this was the pick. We didn't get very far. 😂

Phew. That's a fairly thick index.

Whoops, there's an Acknowledgements section.

From here, it's all notes, index, stuff nobody "reads".

Not sure if that last bit counts as a chapter, but here I am at the top of the Afterword.

Atari why.

Half an hour per chapter again, like clockwork. Halfway through.

Mixing snacking with reading is a recipe for slower progress. 45 minutes for one chapter, oy.

The first truly amusing printing error: "a modem version". Keming is much funnier than the wrong kind of bracket or dash, or a missing space.

Seems like each chapter is a pretty consistent 30 minutes for me.

Three chapters in somewhat more than an hour, that's more like it.

One chapter in 2 hours? Hopefully I can read faster now that my phone is done updating, letting me focus on the book.

THIS book has a short preface and cast of characters before it even starts, and the publisher-provided page count includes none of the front matter whatsoever. Unusual.

"About the Author" and we're done.

Acknowledgements. A mere two pages.

End of content, except for acknowledgements. Mostly notes & bibliography remaining.

You mean "character", dear author: "the first TV actor to be killed over a contract dispute"

Finished the unnumbered photo pages. Bedtime.

End, chapter 18. Remarkable because here is where the third and final clump of unnumbered photo pages begins. Fortunately, two of the three were between chapters.