A review by merricatct
IBID by Mark Dunn

3.0

I'm a big fan of Mark Dunn's Ella Minnow Pea, which combined a fascinating experiment in written language with a story that was both delightful and frightening; unfortunately, this was much less of a success for me. The experiment in written language (here, a novel written entirely in endnotes) was interesting, but the story itself was lacking. The main character is very Forrest Gump-y in encountering lots of famous historical figures, but otherwise, it wasn't very entertaining or compelling. Despite being fairly short, it took me far longer than I expected to read this, just because I avoided picking it up or kept getting distracted while reading it. But I got through it! I'm giving it three stars because of the creative format, but Pale Fire this definitely isn't.