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Overview
A list for all those books with wild formats that I need to read (yes yes some are not technically ergodic)
Challenge Books
House of Leaves
Mark Z. Danielewski
The classic! Footnotes create a second story and the author plays very freely with text inserts and moving words around the page
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Doug Dorst, J.J. Abrams
Use of annotation and inserts in the book create a second narrative from the base text
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Rian Hughes
While largely linear and less work than some of the other books, having digital entities scream at eachother with the world's worst font choices overtaking the page does make you work. Heavily graphic design in the ergodisity
The Raw Shark Texts
Steven Hall
(Pre-read note) makes cute little concrete poems of sharks
Tree of Codes
Jonathan Safran Foer
Die cut black out poetry. Creates fascinating pacing as well as a unique reading experience. Largely a work of visual art
Ella Minnow Pea
Mark Dunn
(Pre-read note) removal of letters diagetically through the story
Pale Fire
Vladimir Nabokov
This man is too emotionally invested to annotate a poem. Extensive annotation to a poem creates the narrative work
(bonus)
Horrorstör
Grady Hendrix
Ikea spoof horror with the larger design of an ikea catalog.
It's very light on using the format to tell the story and is more just used as chapter illustrations.
It's very light on using the format to tell the story and is more just used as chapter illustrations.
(bonus)
Dead Astronauts
Jeff VanderMeer
This book plays with format a bit but not nearly to the level of the main list books, though it's worth mentioning if only to the use of versions
(bonus)
Cybertext: Perspectives on Ergodic Literature
Espen J. Aarseth
Because of course it defined the category