Reddit reviews The Fifty Year Sword

Ergodic literature.

Since you liked working for your pleasure, just read his other two books.

Only Revolutions is a novel sized poem/ love story/ road trip. You're supposed to read a few pages from one perspective, then, whenever you feel like it, literally flip the book around to the back and read the same story from the other perspective. They meet in the middle, there are a crap ton of annotations to follow next to the text. It's beautiful and terrifying to attempt. And, I failed. (Was not ready for english poetry in those days, didn't understand shit after 50 pages or so.) Meant to pick it back up for ages.

The 2nd one would be The Fifty Year Sword. See those dots on the cover, they're actually punctures, like from a needle (literally, they're holes punctured from within the cover, ridges and all). The inside goes on with shit like that, weird layouts, pictures, beautiful. Also a lot of work. It's a sort of campfire ghost story told by five people simultaneously. Same account told by five different people, then pulled apart and selectively stitched together again as a cohesive "whole". The only way to tell them apart initially are the differently colored "s in front of their parts but eventually you start to get whose voice is whose by the tone of their parts. 'But seriously, 'it's pretty hard ^'to ^follow at first. <- Visual representation.

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