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The story requires the reader to live inside Nazneen's head.
"Genji" requires the reader to enter that mood.
Real poetry requires effort because it requires the reader to become, like the poet, a creator.
As with all good parables, it requires the reader to do some work in order to understand its meaning.
All reading requires the reader to infer meaning: the first chapter of The Sound and the Fury turns inference into an extreme sport.
But few publishers have built viable alternative infrastructures for selling ebooks – Hachette's website just directs visitors to Amazon and iBooks, while Penguin's requires the reader to have Adobe Digital Editions installed, a whole other round of trouble.
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It's a tricky problem, particularly because it's one that requires the readers most drawn to too outrageous to be true news to challenge their beliefs.
I later discovered Usborne's Puzzle Adventures, which required the reader to work out puzzles to solve a mystery.
Trapdoor to Treachery, Voyage to Victory, Tempest of Trouble and Curse of the Cockroach all required the reader to solve a puzzle at the end of every page.
If Underworld required the reader to think of Joyce, The Body Artist brings to mind, in the wariness of its prose, Beckett.
Through journal entries, military reports, letters and documents, Ivey lays down her story in shards, requiring the reader to piece together the final narrative.
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