Gimmicks
- Description
- Books which challenge formal conventions of the reading experience (i.e., the layout of the book, reading order, the relationship between main text and secondary matter such as notes, titles, etc.). For this list I'm not interested in postmodern and metafictional experiments with style/genre or narrative point of view.
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- 6 Members
- acenturyofsleep, sturlington, souloftherose, spiphany, cej1027, ahef1963
- Explanations
- sturlington: Gradual erasure of letters of the alphabet from the narrative.spiphany: Story is told using ever fewer letters of the alphabet.
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by Nick Bantock
2,883 members
68 reviews
4.2
Score 4
Added 2018-06-25, 01:16 PM
- 4 Members
- charl08, acenturyofsleep, sturlington, ahef1963
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- 3 Members
- sturlington, spiphany, ahef1963
- Explanations
- spiphany: Pages and chapters are numbered backwards
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- 3 Members
- acenturyofsleep, spiphany, ManWithAnAgenda
- Explanations
- spiphany: Can be read straight through or in an order chosen by the reader according to instructions at the beginning of the book.
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- 3 Members
- KimarieBee, sturlington, ahef1963,spiphany
- Explanations
- sturlington: The narrator reads another book, which is contained inside the first book,
but the last chapters are missing.
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- 2 Members
- acenturyofsleep, spiphany
- Explanations
- spiphany: Published as a vintage-looking library book with marginal notations and loose documents (letters, postcards, notes, etc.) tucked between the pages
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2,094 members
34 reviews
3.1
Score 2
Added 2014-11-01, 06:10 AM
- 2 Members
- acenturyofsleep, spiphany
- Explanations
- spiphany: Two stories printed 180° from each other, requiring the reader to rotate the book while reading
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583 members
13 reviews
½ 3.7
Score 2
Added 2017-09-17, 06:52 AM
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333 members
54 reviews
½ 3.6
Score 2
Added 2017-10-13, 03:24 PM
- 2 Members
- acenturyofsleep, spiphany
- Explanations
- spiphany: Bound like an accordian with two parallel stories, one on each side of the page.
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80 members
4.2
Score 2
Added 2014-11-01, 06:10 AM
- 2 Members
- acenturyofsleep, spiphany
- Explanations
- spiphany: Two separate version of the book were written ("female" perspective and "male" perspective); the printed editions are the same except for a key chapter.
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413 members
15 reviews
½ 3.3
Score 1
Added 2014-11-01, 06:27 AM
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- sturlington
- Explanations
- sturlington: The book is about the breakdown of language, as experienced by the narrator.
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- Member
- sturlington
- Explanations
- sturlington: Told as if from the point of view of multiple security monitors, often with text in corresponding columns.
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184 members
2 reviews
3.9
Score 1
Added 2014-11-01, 06:20 AM
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143 members
1 review
½ 3.5
Score 1
Added 2014-11-01, 06:20 AM
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- Moomin_Mama
- Explanations
- Moomin_Mama: A grown up choose-your-own-adventure that can also be read cover to cover.
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160 members
5 reviews
3
Score 0
Added 2019-04-18, 10:14 AM
