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 Posted: Wed Sep 13, 2006 5:11 pm
We all know of regualar books. One Chapter after another, everything explained, but what about Alternate Format Books? You know what I mean. THose who use different genres in them. Like Memos, poetry, and Outlines. Do you find these interesting or irriatating? That it's a neat way to explain something, or the poetry can't hold an entire chapter of information.
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Posted: Wed Sep 13, 2006 5:24 pm
I've read a few books written in prose/IM format that I liked a lot. But they were really the exception, to my mind. I've encountered a lot more in that form that weren't so good.
It's like everything else, you have to put effort into it.
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Posted: Thu Sep 14, 2006 5:14 am
I like books with quotes at the beginning of each chapter, when they have something to do with the book. For example, Dune had quotes from the "diary" of one of the characters years after the events of the book had happened. The Shipping News had different types of knots described at the beginning of each chapter. The type of knot had to do with what was happening.
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Posted: Thu Sep 14, 2006 2:06 pm
I haven't read too many books like that, but when I do I really like the little bits at the beginning or end because it a little more to the book if it's appropriate. If not then it's just amusing and a sign of an author who is still a little green. Or no good.
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Posted: Thu Sep 14, 2006 5:05 pm
Like Water For Chocolate is an interesting example of this because each chapter starts out reading like a recipe. The story in that chapter also revolves around that recipe.
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Posted: Thu Sep 14, 2006 5:22 pm
*Greedily copies down the books titles* I like one called 'Rewind'? Yeah I think that was it. It was written completely backwards. Telling what led to the event in the beginning. I loved telling people I was on chapter 35 and then later telling them I was on chapter 20, drove them nuts.
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