19 books
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9 voters
Listopia > Dr Dabbler's votes on the list Constrained Writing, Especially Vocabulary. (11 Books)
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Green Eggs and Ham
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"At the publisher's request, this was written with a total vocabulary of 50 words."
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rated it 4 stars
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The Cat in the Hat (Cat in the Hat, #1)
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"Before writing Green Eggs, Dr Seuss wrote this with a vocabulary of 236 words."
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rated it 3 stars
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Gnomeville: Dragon! (The "I Can't Believe I'm Reading French" Comic Book Series, #1)
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"This comic book in French uses 12 of the 20 most frequently occurring words in French newspapers, plus exact French-English cognates, such as "dragon". One frequent word is introduced per page. Over 300 words of story plus a crossword and song with the same constraints."
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rated it 5 stars
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Gnomeville: Dragon! Episode 2: Les Pythons et les Potions (The "I Can't Believe I'm Reading French" Comic Book Series: Gnomeville: Dragon!) (French Edition)
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"This comic uses the most frequent 20 words found in French newspapers plus French-English cognates, continuing form Episode 1, adding a new frequent word, and or grammatical/spelling rule per page. "
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rated it 5 stars
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Gnomeville: Dragon! Les six protections de la potion (Gnomeville, #3)
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"Episode 3 goes beyond the 20 frequent words of Episodes 1-2, adding more conjugations of the present tense, minor cognate spelling variations and 9 new frequent words."
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rated it 5 stars
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Thing Explainer: Complicated Stuff in Simple Words
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"After his popular Up Goer Five comic, which used the most frequent 1000 words of English to explain rocket science, the author wrote an entire book that explains science and technology using the same vocabulary. Others have also written, sometimes quite beautiful text with the same vocabulary, with the aid of a vocabulary checker."
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added it to to-read
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The Cat in the Hat Comes Back (The Cat in the Hat, #2)
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"Presumably this also constrains vocabulary, but I can't find the details anywhere."
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rated it 4 stars
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Les revenentes
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"The only vowel used in this French story is the letter E. It was inspired by Gadsby."
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added it to to-read
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La disparition/ Les revenentes et autres lipogrammes
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"This French story doesn't use the letter E at all."
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added it to to-read
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A Void
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"Avoids the letter E."
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added it to to-read
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Gadsby
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"Avoids the letter E. The first of its kind."
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rated it 1 star
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