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Copy/paste the text below into your blog. <a href="http://www.goodreads.com/book/show/374233.If_on_a_Winter_s_Night_a_Traveler?utm_medium=api&amp;utm_source=blog_review" style="float: left; padding-right: 20px"><img alt="If on a Winter's Night a Traveler" border="0" src="http://s3.amazonaws.com/photo.goodreads.com/books/1175386803m/374233.jpg" /></a> <a href="http://www.goodreads.com/book/show/374233.If_on_a_Winter_s_Night_a_Traveler?utm_medium=api&utm_source=blog_review">If on a Winter's Night a Traveler</a> by <a href="http://www.goodreads.com/author/show/155517.Italo_Calvino">Italo Calvino</a><br/><br/> <a href="http://www.goodreads.com/review/show/19788558?utm_medium=api&utm_source=blog_review"><h3>My review</h3></a> rating: 5 of 5 stars<br/>Okay, so despite being a little gimmicky, I thoroughly enjoyed this book. Every other chapter is written is second-person narration, and becomes very amusing, especially when "you" (the reader) does or thinks things that I would obviously never do..and "you" is obviously a male character, so that adds all the more humor to the situation for me personally. <br/> <br/>The basic premise is that "you" pick up a new book from the bookstore, and after reading the first chapter, realize that something is wrong...like parts of another book are inserted or pages are missing or any other variety of problems. This happens repeatedly. Reading the entire book you will end up reading ten first chapters, all of which are pretty great and of course end on an extremely dramatic note that leaves you wanting more. Meanwhile, in between these chapters, "you" are embarking on an adventure to solve this mystery of the unfinished/misproduced novels and get the girl. "You" are the ultimate protagonist, since as a normal reader in a normal story we tend to get sucked in by identifying or sympathizing with the protagonist. <br/> <br/>This book says a lot about why people read and even pokes fun at those who can't just enjoy reading for reading's sake. It also reminded me a lot of Pale Fire by Nabokov in the way the story plays with the whole structure of telling stories within a story. <br/><br/><a href="http://www.goodreads.com/review/list/214508?utm_medium=api&utm_source=blog_review">View all my reviews.</a>