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fattredd posted:Lets talk about books with interesting structure or layout. You've sold the book shot a little there I think, it's a really interesting read. The bulk of the text is written as a dissertation on a video that the writer of the dissertation has seen, which is framed in the story of a drug addict who has found the notes of the dissertation and becomes obsessed with trying to compile them. The typography/layout mirrors events in the story, e.g. there is a chapter in the 'dissertation' that analyses the idea of a labyrinth, and the chapter itself is written as if it is a labyrinth. Another chapter goes into a lot of details about the nature of sound and the occurrence of echos where he uses a similar approach. I believe there were some paragraphs that were written as morse code to spell SOS etc. It's a very intricate and interesting book* and I like it a lot. It sort of feels like you're just reading through wikipedia, clicking on links that you think are interesting, constantly changing the subject. *Or you could call it pretentious and you wouldn't be wrong.
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