Which books are told in the most interesting / creative/ mind bending ways? How does it add to the book overall?
My all time favourite is Ella Minnow Pea where the book is a series of letters. The characters have to think of more inventive ways to write their letters as an increasing number of letters are outlawed as the book progresses.
Honourable mentions include:
Maribou Stork Nightmares where the narrator is trying to suppress his dark past by allowing himself to slip into hallucinations of a whacky south African safari adventure.
Flowers for Algernon where the narrator becomes more articulate by taking part in a scientific experiment.
Requiem For a Dream by Hubert Selby Jr, which was adapted to film by Aronofsky… the author removes punctuation such as periods commas and quotation marks so that we don’t know if something is a thought spoken a narrative detail and where anything ends really it is really interesting it has a dissonant effect by doing this the author effectively puts the reader in the perspective of a heroin addict dissociating and confused with disconnected and interupted thoughts it is just as chilling reading as it is watching Daren Aronofsky’s directing effects i really recommend this book for anyone that was a fan of the film the book also gives more background to the scenes where it seems the film ended more abruptly i read this back in high school and loved how creative it was creepy and unsettling