/lit/ - Literature

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It's like, postmodern, yo.
I ordered this online and it hasn't come in yet. I'm actually really excited about it.

Do your best. it is supposedly art, so it is there to provoke an emotion and make you feel something. I haven't touched it yet, but supposedly you just have to take what you can get from it.

i saw this at the bookstore flipped through it and put it back. i bought "the master and margarita" instead. some of the pages you have to put up to a mirror to read. no thanks.

>>1453085
I don't know about you, but I can read mirror writing without a mirror.

>>1453085
You don't need to read that part. It just sort of adds to the whole reading experience sorta.

>>1453090

but how? ;_;

>>1453095
While flipping through it at a bookstore, I gathered that the mirrored portions are the same as the text in the boxes on the facing pages.

>>1453102
you would be 100% correct.

>>1453096
It's not hard. Just pay attention.

If ye be having to ask how to read it, you shouldn't be reading it...back of the line bub

>>1453102
No, they're not. That stuff is all unnecessary bibliographic type stuff. The point isn't what it says, but rather, why Zampano would even format it like that. The same can be said for a lot of other formatting.

You have to keep in mind that it's a book about a guy who finds a book about a movie and he's transcribing it while adding his own notes. The formatting plays a lot into what is happening in specific scenes and the mindset of those involved, whether it's johnny transcribing it, Zampano thinking it up in the first place, or the characters in the Navidson Record and what they are going through at the time. It's really not that hard to grasp.

Anyways, I just finished it for the 2nd time a few days ago. Excellent book.

Read it how you wish. The way I did it both times is that I read until I see part of Johnny's story and keep reading until there's a good stopping point with the Navidson record. Then I read Johnnys part (which btw, besides one part at the end, never goes beyond a few pages.) After finishing up with Mr. Truants rambling, I then went back to the Navidson Record. Some of the footnotes are great. Obviously some of it is just citation stuff you can skip but the stuff besides that brings up a lot of interesting themes (the minotaur.)

The appendices are the only thing that you might want to decide for yourself how to do. You could even read them before reading the entire book if you wished. You could read them when the editors tell you to have a look, or wait until the end. That's what I did with the whalestoe letters.

>>1453045
It's there to make it hard to actually read the content of the book. The author was merciful and is trying to prevent you from reading his awful book.

>>1453114
That's not mirror writing, flick a page back and it's written in the right direction there.