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Title	:	Ibid
Author	:	Mark Dunn
Book Format	:	Paperback
Book Edition	:	First Edition
Pages	:	Pages: 264 pages
Published	:	June 1st 2005 by Mariner Books (first published 2004)
Categories	:	Fiction. Humor. Literary Fiction. Contemporary

Ibid

Mark Dunn

Paperback | Pages: 264 pages

Rating: 3.23 | 427 Users | 97 Reviews

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Only Mark Dunn, author of the acclaimed Ella Minnow Pea, would attempt to write a novel entirely in footnotes-and succeed so triumphantly. Ibid is the off-the-wall fictional biography of Jonathan Blashette, a three-legged circus performer and deodorant entrepreneur. Dunn, a character in his own novel, is Blashette's esteemed biographer. But when Dunn's editor destroys the manuscript in an unfortunate bathtub accident, all that remains are the footnotes, which they arrange to publish in a consummate portrait of Blashette's strangely hilarious life story, one that offers some infinitely interesting morsels of American cultural history. Of course, as endnotes go, these are the tidbits, the marginalia: snippets of commentary, correspondence, court transcripts, song lyrics, and even a recipe for Boston baked beans. But in the topsy-turvy world of Ibid, the footnotes tell the truest story of all.

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Original Title:	Ibid
ISBN:	0156031000 (ISBN13: 9780156031004)
Edition Language:	English

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Ratings: 3.23 From 427 Users | 97 Reviews

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I tried to read this book, but after a month of not being able to read more than a chapter at any given time, and not getting hooked enough to keep going back, I have decided to move this into the "not going to finish" pile. It is a small pile and I'm sad to be making it bigger, but I just can't seem to get into this one. I loved Ella Minnow Pea by the same author, I think it was more the story (and not the interesteing format) that caused me to not like it so much. At least I gave it a good

I can appreciate this book for its premise and I applaud Dunn for attempting to tell a tale entirely through end notes, but it fails miserably as a novel. This is one of the best examples of bad experimental fiction. When compared to other novelists who have ventured these waters without going into the deep end, Junot Diaz, Steven Hall, Chuck Palahniuk, etc., Ibid highlights Dunn's weakness. He can't tie together this series of anecdotes into a narrative worth telling, and by using the footnote

Conceived as "a novel in footnotes" (although more correctly they should be called endnotes), Ibid tells its narrative indirectly. As readers we never know the full story of the main character. However, we can gain an overall impression of his life story, and by reading the digressions made in the endnotes we get flavors that we could not through a standard novel.I was interested in this book because I enjoyed the author's Ella Minnow Pea. That novel also played with narrative style, but in a

I really wanted to like this book more. I loved Ella Minnow Pea, and the concept of a story told only through footnotes sounded similarly clever and interesting. Turns out you can indeed tell a story solely through footnotes, but this particular story just really didn't grab me, and I felt nothing for any of the characters. There are some nice little touches and clever wordplay, but overall this was disappointing.

I have been looking forward to reading Ibid: A Life by Mark Dunn. It is the imaginative biography of Jonathan Blashette, a three-legged man. After opening with several letters between the author, his editor, and his brother, that explain what happened to the actual manuscript, the entire story consists of the endnotes (the use of "footnotes" is obviously a pun) to the missing fictional biography.I found Ibid hilarious, and really did laugh out loud several times. It tackles, tongue in cheek, the

Ibid is another delightfully off-kilter work of metafiction by Mark Dunn. This is not a traditional novel by any means. It opens with a handful of letters between Mark Dunn and his editor that explain the unusual format of the book. Mark accidentally destroyed one copy of the manuscript of a biography of Jonathan Blashette, a three-legged man with an uproariously bizarre life. The editors son accidentally destroyed the other. All thats left are the endnotes. One might think that endnotes arent

Not great, but mildly amusing if read in small doses every day. I kept wanting to re-read Pale Fire though, as the slightly unbalanced narrator kept reminding me of that better book.This would be a good one to read in e-book form, being able to google historical references - there are a lot of them, and sometimes I was unsure which was made up and which was true. I knew nylons were sought after in WWII but nylon riots? Wow. Probably funnier for Americans who are familiar with the strange people