Amazing...I literally thought of the same thing at the exact same time as you posted this. Though, because I love drama and am very theatrical in my ways, I fell on my knees while thinking such a thing, and shouted "HEISIG!! YOU SICK BASTARD!! WHAT HAVE YOU DONE TO ME?!!" effectively waking up half my neighbourhood .

Good luck to all of you. Once you have had this chapter, the rest is a walk through the forest.

Last edited by roderik (2008 May 17, 3:27 am)

Oh crap! I'm up to Ch 22, and I didn't know this mother-lode was coming up!



*deep breaths*

I just finished about a week ago I think. Once you get past 23-25-27, its clear sailing all the way to the end, or at least that's how it looks.

I agree with Jonathan. (Man, it feels weird to type that.  It's like I'm being egotistical when I'm totally not.)  The really long chapters have been fairly easy for me to blast through, since they usually have just a few primitives getting into a lot of wacky situations.  Now that I'm closing in on 1000, I'm sort of dreading the part of the book that has a lot of short chapters with a lot of different primitives.  I mean, I know I could take it slow, but gosh darn it I want to go fast, and I can tell already that this part is going to take a toll on my memory/sanity...

Preach it, brothers.  Chapter 23 is a bear--not because of difficulty, but because of the sheer number of kanji. 

I'm finishing it today.  By my calculation, I've spent 3 weeks on it now.  It's going to be great to have it done and move on to 24.

23 is also probably one my weakest chapters, because thanks to school I took a break midway and so I never gave it proper attention (well, aside from the finger ones. I got through those during the summer).

I think the 27th chapter was the most grueling for me so far though. I really wish I had found this site before chapter 28. I'd probably be done by now, lol. I chose a friend as my "person" but looking back someone like Mr. T would have been much better. But I already have my stories, so even if I try to learn new ones that are more vivid, it just won't work.

killerducky wrote:

Dear Chapter 23: You suck but I will dominate you soon.  Then after a little break I'm coming after your little brother Chapter 25.

That's right 25.  I'm coming for you soon.

Last kanji for 23 has been put into Anki, woo! 

Cards for 24 have been made.

On chapter 23, I divided into bits : since I was learning normally 25/30 kanji a week, I did this one in three sessions (I already learnt more kanji than usual, but since it was the ame chapter, I knew it was important to go faster than usual), three weeks and all was good.
The rule 1 chapter at a time is quite interesting, but they are chapters as 23 and others following ones that are longer, too  long for this. Divide the chapters if it is too much for you !

Last edited by breakies (2012 January 22, 5:50 am)

I tossed the chapter structure out of the window at like ch2 . I just can't force myself. I did as much as I felt like at the time, and then a few more, and stopped there. Sometimes 15, sometimes 80 (god those days were headache-inducing). But never according to some artificial limit set by someone else.