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'Unlike any other' might be a stretch. Writers have been playing these sorts of meta-narrative games for decades now. Nabokov's Pale Fire comes to mind. House
by briga 9y ago
'Unlike any other' might be a stretch. Writers have been playing these sorts of meta-narrative games for decades now.
Nabokov's Pale Fire comes to mind. House of Leaves is another example.
- oh_sigh 9y agoWould you read an article titled 'J.J. Abrams wrote a book similar to some other books'?
- H4CK3RM4N 9y agoI would if it didn't have a horrible UI.
- josinalvo 9y agoIt is funny, how we started to use comparisons to mean just adjectives. E.g., 'like no other' -> 'really good'. Funny, and semantics breaking. How could we write a title that just said 'the book is really good' and still felt compelling?
- willismichael 9y agoA distinctive reading experience?
- dzdt 9y agoGriffin and Sabine (Nick Bantock) is also somewhat similar. There the entirety of the story is cards and letters written between the title characters. It has the same idea of having these as inserts within the book. It was well done; the "found object" nature of it has a nice quality.
- cwyers 9y agoThe webcomic Schlock Mercenary has done a tie-in where they did a hardcover version of "The Seventy Maxims Of Maximally-Effective Mercenaries," an in-universe self-help book that characters constantly refer to, with annotations written into the book by the characters.