“Work” as in there is a learnable construction method that produces a predictable access/use behavior on the part of the reader, which has a somewhat predictable before/after effect on their cognitive condition that is close to what writer intended
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More... - red-pill books (radicalizing/false-conscious creation-destruction) - traditional plays (but not necessarily TV/movie scripts) - minimalist comic books (complex ones may be good but they don’t “work” reliably) In general a book “works” if it induces a “literacy”
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Literacy should be considered a collection of highly specific medium-unlocking adaptations, not a generic symbol processing cognitive ability. You’re not literate in “English” but in something like “mystery novels” or “Japanese style comic books”.
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What are examples of atmospheric fiction (mood prose)? I can’t place the term.
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The Enigma of Arrival by V.S. Naipaul is the book that immediately comes to mind. It's fictionalized autobiography about the author renting a cottage in rural England. Nothing much happens save melancholy rumination on history and landscape.
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I like Fortune's Formula, by William Poundstone, about the wide ranging implications of the Kelly Criterion, as an Idea Museum book.
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Considered in various lights Ulysses is all of those except the first one.
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What category is Wolfram's New Kinda Science?
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Probably "Gödel, Escher, Bach" by Hofstadter. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/G%C3%B6del,_Escher,_Bach …
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