hunters_forest | Black Sun Rising

After the truly enthusiastic response to

trobadora's suggestion of a group re-reading of the trilogy, we've sat together to sort out the hows and whens.

Discussion schedule
We are aiming for two chapters per week, one on Monday and one on Thursday. In the case of shorter chapters, two or more chapters are going to be combined so we get to approximately 15-20 pages (or 30-40 pages per week). Further down you'll find the discussion schedule. We'll include a note in every post that'll let you know which chapter(s) are up next. While we're at it- if anyone has the 2006 Orbit edition and can provide the page numbers of the chapters, we'd be very grateful!

Discussion posts
For every chapter, we'll do a discussion post with a quick summary, a few core quotes, and a few thoughts and questions to get the discussions started. That way, if you can't keep up with the re-reading (or you hate that particular chapter and can't bring yourself to do it), you'll still know where we are.

We'll link all discussion posts from the discussion schedule, so if you want to go back to a particular discussion, it will be easy to find.

Spoilers
We thought a lot about this one and came to the conclusion that avoiding spoilers is going to be impossible. We don't want the discussions to be limited to only the chapters in question - you never know when the prologue might spark talk about the ending. Therefore, comments do not need to be posted with spoiler warnings.

We'll start on Monday with the prologue - come and join us!

Date of discussion	Chapter	Content	Pages (Daw 1994)	Pages (Daw 2005)	Pages (Orbit 2006)
Sept. 8	Prologue	The sacrifice	9-17	1-7

Book 1 - City of Shadows
Sept. 11	1	Damien's arrival in Jaggonath	21-35	11-23
Sept. 15	2	The Patriarch	36-41	24-28
	3	Narilka & Tarrant	42-50	29-35
	4	The Dark Ones	51-52	36-37
Sept. 18	5	Damien and Ciani	53-66	38-49
Sept. 22	6	Neoqueen Matilla	67-72	50-54
	7	Patriarch	73-75	55-56
	8	Damien	76-82	57-62
	9	Dark Ones	83	63
Sept. 25	10	Damien and Ciani	84-95	64-73
	11	Karril & Tarant	96-100	74-78
Sept. 29	12	Damien	101-117	79-92
Oct. 2	13	Damien & Patriarch	118-123	93-97
	14	leaving	124-126	98-100
Oct. 7	Looking back at Book 1

Book 2 - Night's Keep
Oct. 9	15	Briand	129-155	103-125
Oct. 13	16	Hesseth	156-158	126-127
	17	on the road - Senzei	159-165	128-133
	18	Hesseth	166-167	134-136
Oct. 16	19	Kale - Damien & Gerald	169-185	137-150
	20	Hesseth	186-187	151-152
Oct. 20	21	to Morgot	188-207	153-169
Oct. 23	22	chasing the Hunter	208-222	170-182
	23	Dark Ones	223-224	183-184
Oct. 27	24	The Forest	225-241	185-198
Oct. 30	25	The Keep	242-267	199-220
	26	The Dark Ones	268-272	221-224
	27	Tarrant	273-274	225-226
Nov. 3	Looking back at Book 2

Book 3 - Citadel of Storms
Nov. 6	28	Crossing the Canopy	277-305	229-253
Nov. 10	29	Master of Lema	306-307	254-255
	30	Damien	308-336	256-279
Nov. 13	31	Master of Lema	337-338	280-281
	32	captured	339-363	282-302
Nov. 17	33	joining forces	364-381	303-317
Nov. 20	34	Senzei & the Fire	382-426	318-355
Nov. 24	35	Tarrant's capture	427-432	356-360
	36	Damien	433-441	361-368
	37	Master of Lema	442	369
Nov. 27	38	Lost Ones	443-466	370-389
Dec. 1	39	Simulacra	467-469	390-391
	40	Damien: decision time	470-486	392-405
Dec. 4	41	freeing Tarrant	487-512	406-427
Dec. 8	42	Master of Lema	513-514	428-429
	43	Healing & plotting	515-534	430-446
Dec. 11	44	Damien & the Master	535-551	447-460
Dec. 15	45	escape	552-566	461-472
	46	invitation	567-574	473-479
Dec. 18	Epilogue	Tarrant, Calesta, Narilka	575-586	480-489
Dec. 22	Looking back at Book 3 and at Black Sun Rising