Gimmicks
- Beskrivning
- 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
- guyalice, sturlington, souloftherose, spiphany, cej1027, ahef1963
- Förklaringar
- 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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av Nick Bantock
2,875 medlemmar
68 recensioner
4.2
Rankning 4
Tillagt 2018-06-25, 01:16 PM
- 4 Members
- charl08, guyalice, sturlington, ahef1963
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- 3 Members
- sturlington, spiphany, ahef1963
- Förklaringar
- spiphany: Pages and chapters are numbered backwards
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- 3 Members
- guyalice, spiphany, ManWithAnAgenda
- Förklaringar
- spiphany: Can be read straight through or in an order chosen by the reader according to instructions at the beginning of the book.
5
15,551 medlemmar
374 recensioner
4.1
Rankning 2
Tillagt 2014-11-15, 08:23 PM
- 3 Members
- Moomin_Mama, guyalice, ManWithAnAgenda,ahef1963
6
3,795 medlemmar
233 recensioner
3.9
Rankning 2
Tillagt 2018-03-19, 08:18 AM
- 3 Members
- KimarieBee, sturlington, ahef1963,spiphany
- Förklaringar
- sturlington: The narrator reads another book, which is contained inside the first book,
but the last chapters are missing.
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8
2,079 medlemmar
34 recensioner
3.1
Rankning 2
Tillagt 2014-11-01, 06:10 AM
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10
582 medlemmar
13 recensioner
½ 3.7
Rankning 2
Tillagt 2017-09-17, 06:52 AM
11
332 medlemmar
54 recensioner
½ 3.6
Rankning 2
Tillagt 2017-10-13, 03:24 PM
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- 2 Members
- sturlington, spiphany
14
80 medlemmar
4.2
Rankning 2
Tillagt 2014-11-01, 06:10 AM
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- Member
- spiphany
18
884 medlemmar
32 recensioner
3.9
Rankning 1
Tillagt 2020-12-24, 01:44 PM
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- Member
- sturlington
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454 medlemmar
17 recensioner
3.8
Rankning 1
Tillagt 2014-11-01, 06:36 AM
23
409 medlemmar
15 recensioner
½ 3.3
Rankning 1
Tillagt 2014-11-01, 06:27 AM
24
405 medlemmar
9 recensioner
4.1
Rankning 1
Tillagt 2014-11-01, 06:28 AM
25
399 medlemmar
7 recensioner
½ 3.7
Rankning 1
Tillagt 2017-06-13, 09:28 AM
- Member
- sturlington
- Förklaringar
- sturlington: The book is about the breakdown of language, as experienced by the narrator.
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347 medlemmar
67 recensioner
½ 3.4
Rankning 1
Tillagt 2017-06-28, 10:29 AM
- Member
- sturlington
- Förklaringar
- sturlington: Told as if from the point of view of multiple security monitors, often with text in corresponding columns.
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av Ana Castillo
297 medlemmar
3 recensioner
½ 3.3
Rankning 1
Tillagt 2017-09-17, 06:45 AM
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av Walter Abish
239 medlemmar
6 recensioner
½ 3.6
Rankning 1
Tillagt 2014-11-01, 06:37 AM
- Member
- spiphany
29
av Miaojin Qiu
220 medlemmar
8 recensioner
½ 3.7
Rankning 1
Tillagt 2021-05-25, 11:21 AM
30
184 medlemmar
2 recensioner
3.9
Rankning 1
Tillagt 2014-11-01, 06:20 AM
31
142 medlemmar
1 recension
½ 3.5
Rankning 1
Tillagt 2014-11-01, 06:20 AM
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- Member
- Moomin_Mama
- Förklaringar
- Moomin_Mama: A grown up choose-your-own-adventure that can also be read cover to cover.
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7 medlemmar
1 recension
3
Rankning 1
Tillagt 2021-03-07, 05:20 AM
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- Member
- spiphany
42
- Member
- spiphany
43
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- Member
- spiphany
46
2,125 medlemmar
22 recensioner
3.9
Rankning 0
Tillagt 2014-11-01, 08:58 AM
- 2 Members
- aulsmith, souloftherose,sturlington ,spiphany
- Förklaringar
47
668 medlemmar
15 recensioner
3.8
Rankning 0
Tillagt 2014-11-01, 11:01 AM
48
378 medlemmar
20 recensioner
3.9
Rankning 0
Tillagt 2019-02-07, 12:49 PM
49
157 medlemmar
5 recensioner
3
Rankning 0
Tillagt 2019-04-18, 10:14 AM
50
av Jeff Jackson
62 medlemmar
1 recension
½ 3.6
Rankning 0
Tillagt 2019-09-01, 03:50 AM
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