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You are about to read Italo Calvino's If on a Winter's Night a Traveller that you bought from your favorite book store. As you turn to the first chapter, you realize you are reading you. You begin to read a description of you and what you would do in the book. You realize you are going through the book and wonder what are you reading. You realize this book has two different sections - one that you read about you doing the things Italo Calvino wants you to do and the other, all pieces of chapters that has nothing to do with the story itself but you have a grand fine time reading adventure, romance, mystery, a satire, an erotic, a diary and a quest piece. You wonder where it will take you and then, in the end - you realize how good this story is by the time you are done.

It took me a long time to read this and why such a long time is due to 1). Work, 2). there is so much to absorb in this book and 3). I am trying to figure out what it all means. Towards the end of the book, I realize how ingenious this book was written for the reader. Its unique, its weird and its interesting unlike I have ever read before. While the story do take different turns in many ways, its so inventive that what I had read is enjoyable in many ways. Although at times I was confuse, it does took me a while to like it. I have never read any thing from Italy but this is one of the interesting ones that I do enjoy and thankful on a whim when I pick this up, is worth a read.