Metafiction. That’s another challenge I should invent, if there isn’t one already, a metafiction challenge. I always expect to love metafiction passionately, and when it lets me down, I feel hurt and betrayed. Like the book of The Princess Bride. Why did you be so lame, book of The Princess Bride? Atonement. Wicked after they left school, but particularly after, um, a certain event? That I don’t want to say because some of you maybe haven’t read the book yet? Slaughterhouse Five. Giles Goat-Boy. And then sometimes it is great, like The Unwritten, The Lost Books of the Odyssey, Ella…
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