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Originally Posted by issybird
Oh, thanks for that link! I read Twilight back in the day when some of my nieces and nephews were of an age for it; it was bad enough that one was plenty. Bella is no Buffy, *sniff*. But Ana's deconstruction is fascinating and I will continue to read it in bits. [...]
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There is certainly far too much of Ana's deconstruction to be able to go through it all at once. I don't necessarily agree with the entire deconstruction, but I do love the way it challenges the interpretation of what otherwise might seem quite simple text.
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Originally Posted by Catlady
I still have no idea about this category, not being more than vaguely familiar with the books that have been mentioned as examples. I don't even know how to twist a book to fit, since I don't know what "fit" means here. [...]
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One book I know you know that would fit is
The Alice Network by Kate Quinn. There are at least three stories being revealed here: Charlie's, Eve's and Rose's. In addition to the fictional story layers there are the real historical events and figures that Quinn has used as the framework - more than just framework, they are integral to the fiction. And there are multiple moral and ethical dimensions to this story as well.
The book I had in mind at the time this theme came up was
The Great Wheel by Ian R. MacLeod. It's sci-fi, so isn't likely to gain your interest, Catlady, but when I got to the end of the book I could tell there had been things going on that I had missed, and I'd have loved to be able to talk it over with others who had read it. Curiously, I'm not even sure how much I liked the book, it just seemed like one I wanted to talk about. So I'm not going to complain if people decide to nominate a book on just such nebulous grounds as: this is one I want to talk about.