ChemicallyEnhanced
Bluelighter
Not even sure how to explain what it is to anyone who doesn't know, so I'm just gonna post the definition here:
"texts that demand "nontrivial effort" from the reader to navigate and construct meaning, going beyond simple eye movement and page turning"
Here's examples of the one's I have read:
Horrorstor, Grady Hendrix is probably the "softest" examples as it reads closest to a traditional novel, but is essentially a haunting/ghost story that in set inside of a store that is "not" Ikea [but definitely IS Ikea...Swedish store that is predominately a furniture store and has that exact same Ikea layout] and is published in the form of an Ikea catalogue.
The story itself is just so-so IM0, but the novelty was fun.
House of Leaves by Mark Z Danielewski is probably the most famous [only famous?] example of the genre, but it would take me forever to explain or describe this thing in any way, so...look it up? IDK
Currently reading Ella Minnow Pea by Mark Dunn. The titular character lives on an island with that sentence that contains every letter - "The quick brown fox jumps over the lazy dog" - on a giant sign and it's kinda their town motto. 0ne day the "z" falls off the sign and the town elders decide that this is like divine intervention and decide to use the letter "z" in speech or writing. As time goes on and additional letters fall from the sign, these too become banned. The author himself also stops using each letter as it falls in the story. But not with tricks like misspelling things, replacing "i" with "1" or leaving blank spaces, rather still using real and correctly spelled words, which is fascinating to see how keeps managing this as the book goes on, especially toward the end when only the letters "L", "M", "N", "0" and "P" are left.
"texts that demand "nontrivial effort" from the reader to navigate and construct meaning, going beyond simple eye movement and page turning"
Here's examples of the one's I have read:
Horrorstor, Grady Hendrix is probably the "softest" examples as it reads closest to a traditional novel, but is essentially a haunting/ghost story that in set inside of a store that is "not" Ikea [but definitely IS Ikea...Swedish store that is predominately a furniture store and has that exact same Ikea layout] and is published in the form of an Ikea catalogue.
The story itself is just so-so IM0, but the novelty was fun.
House of Leaves by Mark Z Danielewski is probably the most famous [only famous?] example of the genre, but it would take me forever to explain or describe this thing in any way, so...look it up? IDK
Currently reading Ella Minnow Pea by Mark Dunn. The titular character lives on an island with that sentence that contains every letter - "The quick brown fox jumps over the lazy dog" - on a giant sign and it's kinda their town motto. 0ne day the "z" falls off the sign and the town elders decide that this is like divine intervention and decide to use the letter "z" in speech or writing. As time goes on and additional letters fall from the sign, these too become banned. The author himself also stops using each letter as it falls in the story. But not with tricks like misspelling things, replacing "i" with "1" or leaving blank spaces, rather still using real and correctly spelled words, which is fascinating to see how keeps managing this as the book goes on, especially toward the end when only the letters "L", "M", "N", "0" and "P" are left.
