if used effectively can work quite well
also, when done in film means that you can watch it in the correct order as well, which is mildly interesting.

alt: aside from my first no-tongue kiss, all my important firsts have been with gingers. This upsets me slightly.
( Vipros. clever got me this far, then tricky got me in, Wed 12 Jan 2011, 18:02, 1 reply, 15 years ago)

Is it less stimulating when in the correct order though?

( chickenlady b3ta's very own Elizabeth Taylor, Wed 12 Jan 2011, 18:03, Reply)

hard to say
perhaps slightly.

Pulp Fiction btw
( Vipros. clever got me this far, then tricky got me in, Wed 12 Jan 2011, 18:04, Reply)

One of the earliest
It certainly works effectively in film mainly because we're so used to 'reading' film. It's harder when we see it in text - I've never made it beyond the first few pages of 'If on a winter's night a traveller...' by Calvino, much to my shame.
( chickenlady b3ta's very own Elizabeth Taylor, Wed 12 Jan 2011, 18:11, Reply)

OMG! Chickenlady.
I think so much less of you now.
( girlinthehole, Wed 12 Jan 2011, 18:12, Reply)

*hangs head*
You have an impressive bookcase BGB.
( chickenlady b3ta's very own Elizabeth Taylor, Wed 12 Jan 2011, 18:13, Reply)

I'm buying another bookcase soon.
I want to make the spare room into a library : )
( girlinthehole, Wed 12 Jan 2011, 18:17, Reply)

If you are serious
Check out the cost of getting a local joiner in to build shelves in on every wall (and above the door). You may be pleasantly surprised.
(porkylips looks better as the sun goes down., Thu 13 Jan 2011, 10:06, Reply)

I've never started it
perhaps I will if it's a bit crazy
( Citizen Cavy Admires your passion for conformity, Wed 12 Jan 2011, 18:14, Reply)

If you're happy about the 4th wall being broken - it makes me uneasy when I see it in text - feels like the writer is stalking me.
www.sccs.swarthmore.edu/users/00/pwillen1/lit/winter.htm
( chickenlady b3ta's very own Elizabeth Taylor, Wed 12 Jan 2011, 18:20, Reply)

this sounds cool

( Citizen Cavy Admires your passion for conformity, Wed 12 Jan 2011, 18:22, Reply)

actually, just read the rest of that bit and I'm going to have to buy it now
for some reason I am now thinking of Kurt Vonnegut. Also good for non-linear storytelling, for example slaughterhouse 5 and Timequake
( Citizen Cavy Admires your passion for conformity, Wed 12 Jan 2011, 18:30, Reply)

I adored Slaughterhouse 5
A brilliant example of non-linear storytelling, real plot tension too.
( chickenlady b3ta's very own Elizabeth Taylor, Wed 12 Jan 2011, 18:31, Reply)

I have a link to an online version
of If On a Winter's Night a Traveller if you want it, floating around somewhere
( Amberl was stripey and dominated Europe, Wed 12 Jan 2011, 18:33, Reply)

thanks, but I'm not very good at reading stuff properly on a computer screen
one day, though, I will get a Kindle...one day
( Citizen Cavy Admires your passion for conformity, Wed 12 Jan 2011, 18:35, Reply)

That book is amazing
if you get a chance give it another shot- the bits and pieces of other novels inside it are great
( Amberl was stripey and dominated Europe, Wed 12 Jan 2011, 18:25, Reply)

I must.
I started reading it years ago - it was a set text on my MA and I just couldn't get into it. Maybe I'm due to have another go.
( chickenlady b3ta's very own Elizabeth Taylor, Wed 12 Jan 2011, 18:32, Reply)

It loses it a tiny bit towards the end
but the meta in it is quite fun to read and play around with
( Amberl was stripey and dominated Europe, Wed 12 Jan 2011, 18:34, Reply)