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''Not to be confused with Literature/TheFamiliars, an unrelated children's fantasy book series.''
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''Not to be confused with Literature/TheFamiliars, ''Literature/TheFamiliars'', an unrelated children's fantasy book series.''
'' Or with ''Literature/{{Familiar}}'', a fantasy novella.
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* ImmediateSequel: Each book starts one second after the ending of the previous one. This is because each chapter within the series is time-stamped and immediately follows the previous one, and this is applied between books as well as chapters.
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** The House from [[Literature/HouseOfLeaves House of Leaves]] itself has been subtly referenced (e.g. how jingjing describes zhong's apartment in [=V01Ch12=], ''palace above the day'', and the fact that the word House sometimes is printed in blue).
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** The House from [[Literature/HouseOfLeaves House of Leaves]] ''Literature/HouseOfLeaves'' itself has been subtly referenced (e.g. how jingjing describes zhong's apartment in [=V01Ch12=], ''palace "palace above the day'', day", and the fact that the word House sometimes is printed in blue).
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** Much like in House of Leaves, The Fifty Year Sword or Only Revolutions, al''l''ways is always printed with two Ls.
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** Much like in House ''House of Leaves, The Leaves'', ''The Fifty Year Sword or Only Revolutions, Sword'' and ''Only Revolutions'', al''l''ways is always printed with two Ls.
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* CuteKitten: Inverted for Xanther's kitten, who everybody except Xanther feels something is very "off" or creepy about. And then the vet reveals that, despite looking like a kitten from the outside, it is actually very old, something he can't explain. It seems to influence people close to it supernaturally (tian li's healing powers) and physically (Xanther getting sick when the kitten is not near).
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* CuteKitten: Inverted for Xanther's kitten, who everybody except Xanther feels something is very "off" or creepy about. And then the vet reveals [[spoiler:reveals that, despite looking like a kitten from the outside, it is actually very old, old]], something he can't explain. It seems to influence people close to it supernaturally (tian li's healing powers) and physically (Xanther getting sick when the kitten is not near).
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* ArcWords: In Özgür's chapters, the word ''katla'' ("fold" in Turkish) often appears within the text at important points in his story. His character has origami as a hobby, which explains the word "fold". The word often appears on a line of its own to emphasize it [[note]]It's also emphasized by the fact that it's about the only Turkish word in his narrative, while the other characters who aren't native English speakers (Anwar, Luther, Shnorkh and jingjing) more often have non-Enlish words in their narrative.[[/note]], and appears either once, two-fold or three-[[NoPunIntended fold]].
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* ArcWords: In Özgür's chapters, the word ''katla'' ("fold" in Turkish) often appears within the text at important points in his story. His character has origami as a hobby, which explains the word "fold". The word often appears on a line of its own to emphasize it [[note]]It's [[note]]-- It's also emphasized by the fact that it's about the only Turkish word in his narrative, while the other characters who aren't native English speakers (Anwar, Luther, Shnorkh and jingjing) more often have non-Enlish non-English words in their narrative.[[/note]], narrative. --[[/note]], and appears either once, two-fold or three-[[NoPunIntended fold]].
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* FictionalSocialNetwork: A fictional app called Parcel Thoughts is used by Xanther and her classmates, and by Luther and his gang [[note]]In Real Life, a website parcelthoughts.com exists and according to the domain name registration, is registered / created by the author of the book himself; however, this website as of 2017 is just a front page and doesn't do anything[[/note]]. It apparently is the most ubiquitous social media app In Universe, although Real Life social media like Twitter and Instagram also feature often.
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* FictionalSocialNetwork: A fictional app called Parcel Thoughts is used by Xanther and her classmates, and by Luther and his gang [[note]]In [[note]]-- In Real Life, a website parcelthoughts.com exists and according to the domain name registration, is registered / created by the author of the book himself; however, this website as of 2017 is just a front page and doesn't do anything[[/note]].anything --[[/note]]. It apparently is the most ubiquitous social media app In Universe, although Real Life social media like Twitter and Instagram also feature often.
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* UnconventionalFormatting: Among other things: Some text is printed diagonally or vertically over the page, in shapes like circles etc., in many different sizes of the font on the same page. Some pages consist of letters / words / phrases in font sizes so small that you can't discern individual letters, but they make out a pattern (a picture, sometimes). Words covered by a CensorBox or otherwise made unreadable. Each of the nine narrators has a different font, different page margins and line spacing. Any time "Familiar" or "familiar" appears (even if it's part of a longer word), it's printed in pink. Dots like braille letters appear around text inserted by the "[=NarCons=]" [[note]]The character that precedes each of their lines, is the braille character for "''the''" and the character that follows, is "''N''". ''The N''. As they're called Narcons...[[/note]]. When computer source code appears in the text, it's printed in a fixed-width Courier-looking font, and indented and color-coded just like in real life code is (conventional formatting for programmers, but unconventional formatting for a novel). The page with the books' Copyright declaration and ISBN number doesn't appear at the beginning of the book like usual, but only on page 842 - after the novel itself is finished, and before the Acknowledgements.
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* UnconventionalFormatting: Among other things: Some text is printed diagonally or vertically over the page, in shapes like circles etc., in many different sizes of the font on the same page. Some pages consist of letters / words / phrases in font sizes so small that you can't discern individual letters, but they make out a pattern (a picture, sometimes). Words covered by a CensorBox or otherwise made unreadable. Each of the nine narrators has a different font, different page margins and line spacing. Any time "Familiar" or "familiar" appears (even if it's part of a longer word), it's printed in pink. Dots like braille letters appear around text inserted by the "[=NarCons=]" [[note]]The [[note]]-- The character that precedes each of their lines, is the braille character for "''the''" and the character that follows, is "''N''". ''The N''. As they're called Narcons...[[/note]]. --[[/note]]. When computer source code appears in the text, it's printed in a fixed-width Courier-looking font, and indented and color-coded just like in real life code is (conventional formatting for programmers, but unconventional formatting for a novel). The page with the books' Copyright declaration and ISBN number doesn't appear at the beginning of the book like usual, but only on page 842 - after the novel itself is finished, and before the Acknowledgements.
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* ArcWords: In Özgür's chapters, the word ''katla'' ("fold" in Turkish) often appears within the text at important points in his story. His character has origami as a hobby, which explains the word "fold". The word often appears on a line of its own to emphasize it [[note]]It's also emphasized by the fact that it's about the only Turkish word in his narrative, while characters Anwar, Luther, Shnorkh and jingjing more often have non-Enlish words in their narrative.[[/note]], and appears either once, two-fold or three-[[NoPunIntended fold]].
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* ArcWords: In Özgür's chapters, the word ''katla'' ("fold" in Turkish) often appears within the text at important points in his story. His character has origami as a hobby, which explains the word "fold". The word often appears on a line of its own to emphasize it [[note]]It's also emphasized by the fact that it's about the only Turkish word in his narrative, while the other characters Anwar, who aren't native English speakers (Anwar, Luther, Shnorkh and jingjing jingjing) more often have non-Enlish words in their narrative.[[/note]], and appears either once, two-fold or three-[[NoPunIntended fold]].
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* NoNameGiven: The cat Xanther takes in is not given a name (at least, in the first four volumes), and just referred to as the cat/kitten. Likewise when it [[spoiler:still was with tian li]].
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* NoNameGiven: The cat Xanther takes in is not given a name (at least, in the first four volumes), until volume 5, and just referred to as the cat/kitten. Likewise when it [[spoiler:still was with tian li]].cat/kitten.
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* Volume 1: One Rainy Day in May (May 12, 2015)
* Volume 2: Into the Forest (October 27, 2015)
* Volume 3: Honeysuckle and Pain (June 14, 2016)
* Volume 4: Hades (February 7, 2017)
* Volume 5: Redwood (October 31, 2017)
* Volume 2: Into the Forest (October 27, 2015)
* Volume 3: Honeysuckle and Pain (June 14, 2016)
* Volume 4: Hades (February 7, 2017)
* Volume 5: Redwood (October 31, 2017)
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* Volume 1: One ''One Rainy Day in May May'' (May 12, 2015)
* Volume 2:Into ''Into the Forest Forest'' (October 27, 2015)
* Volume 3:Honeysuckle ''Honeysuckle and Pain Pain'' (June 14, 2016)
* Volume 4:Hades ''Hades'' (February 7, 2017)
* Volume 5:Redwood ''Redwood'' (October 31, 2017)
* Volume 2:
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!! Volume ''Volume 1: One Rainy Day in May May'' provides examples of:
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Danielewski has likened this book project to serialized television, and has said the amount of books in this series will be 27 novels in total and that two new Volumes of the series will be released per year. Considering Volume 1 was released May 2015 and supposing the author keeps up with what he promises (two Volumes/year) this would mean the final Volume will be released end 2028. [[note]]As of 2017, the author / publisher have a contract to respectively write / publish 10 novels.[[/note]] The "series" is split into "seasons" of about 5 books, with Volume 5 the "first season finale".
The titles of the Volumes as far as they have been announced are as follows:
The titles of the Volumes as far as they have been announced are as follows:
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Danielewski has likened this book project to serialized television, and has said the amount of books in this series will be 27 novels in total and that two new Volumes of the series will be released per year. Considering Volume 1 was released May 2015 and supposing the author keeps up with what he promises (two Volumes/year) this would mean the final Volume will be released end 2028. [[note]]As of 2017, the author / publisher have a contract to respectively write / publish 10 novels.[[/note]] The "series" is split into "seasons" of about 5 books, with Volume 5 the "first season finale".
The titles As of 2018 the Volumes as far as they have been announced are as follows:
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* Volume 6: To be released summer 2018; title yet unknown
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* Volume 6: To
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* GenreRoulette: The book as a whole is a big Genre Buster, but each of the narrators' chapters accentuate different genres. The most obvious ones are: {{Horror}} (with a bit of YoungAdult) for Xanther's chapters, CyberPunk for Anwar's, [[DetectiveDrama Crime/Detective]] for Oz's, ConspiracyThriller for Cas's; while Astair's and Shnorhk's are the least specific qua genre and the most most general novelizations.
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* CouldntFindAPen: On the crime scene Oz visits, where three people have been murdered, the letters "VEM" have been written on a window with what only is described as "some greasy substance". Presumbably, VEM is an organization involved in the murders, and either VEM themselves (as a threat) or the murder victims (assuming they didn't die instantly, and to point to their killers) did that.
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* CallBack:
** Oz recalls the robbery in Koreatown, that happened in the previous book.
** When Xanther chooses Pomegranate flavour for her ice, she thinks she did so because Anwar's friends had given her Grenadine at Anwar's office party--this indeed was described in the first book.
* ClusterFBomb: Someone posts a message in FictionalSocialNetwork app "Parcel Thoughts", consisting of:
-->fuck yellows, fuck blues, fuck this fuckin pink latch
* EmbarrassingFirstName: A client of Astair's is called Ananias. Even Astair herself can't help think "What a name!". It is only one letter off from what is the word for "pineapple" in most languages except English: ananas. It doesn't help that the client seems to be a Cloudcuckoolander, too.
* ThePlace: "Frogtown" is a chapter title, and a neighborhood of Los Angeles where the chapter takes place for Luther. "The Loyal Hawaiian" is a hotel, and the place another Luther chapter takes place.
* PunctuatedForEmphasis: When Xanther wonders if the cat really isn't a kitten, the [=NarCon=]s comment "It. Is. Not." to emphasize it really isn't.
* SpitefulSpit: Shnorhk arrives at the clinic just before closing time, only to find out that the clinic is closed and abandoned. Angry because he now blames the clinic for breaking his promise to Patil, he spits at the clinic's door.
* TitleDrop:
** "be extraordinary": jingjing reads this on a poster for recruitment for the police.
** "so it begins": jingjing thinks this to himself when he goes buying drugs again after having been clean for four years.
** Oz recalls the robbery in Koreatown, that happened in the previous book.
** When Xanther chooses Pomegranate flavour for her ice, she thinks she did so because Anwar's friends had given her Grenadine at Anwar's office party--this indeed was described in the first book.
* ClusterFBomb: Someone posts a message in FictionalSocialNetwork app "Parcel Thoughts", consisting of:
-->fuck yellows, fuck blues, fuck this fuckin pink latch
* EmbarrassingFirstName: A client of Astair's is called Ananias. Even Astair herself can't help think "What a name!". It is only one letter off from what is the word for "pineapple" in most languages except English: ananas. It doesn't help that the client seems to be a Cloudcuckoolander, too.
* ThePlace: "Frogtown" is a chapter title, and a neighborhood of Los Angeles where the chapter takes place for Luther. "The Loyal Hawaiian" is a hotel, and the place another Luther chapter takes place.
* PunctuatedForEmphasis: When Xanther wonders if the cat really isn't a kitten, the [=NarCon=]s comment "It. Is. Not." to emphasize it really isn't.
* SpitefulSpit: Shnorhk arrives at the clinic just before closing time, only to find out that the clinic is closed and abandoned. Angry because he now blames the clinic for breaking his promise to Patil, he spits at the clinic's door.
* TitleDrop:
** "be extraordinary": jingjing reads this on a poster for recruitment for the police.
** "so it begins": jingjing thinks this to himself when he goes buying drugs again after having been clean for four years.
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* AerithAndBob: Many characters have unusual names--like Isandòrno, Shnorkh, Mnatsangan--that seem to have been completely made-up by the author. On the other hand, there are characters called Anwar, jingjing, and Catherine (the first two are normal names in Arabic and Chinese respectively).
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* ThePilot: This first installment is focused on introducing the characters, more than much happening in it. The ones following it, take up the pace and up the action. The author himself even literally called it a pilot (and the entire series was written as "a TV-series in book form", so this is fitting).
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* {{Mind Screw}}: Even before the weird stuff starts, the huge number of characters, constantly shifting point-of-view and weird structure make it a real challenge to read. By the time you've gotten a grasp on how to read it, the plot begins sliding into strange as well...
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* {{Mind Screw}}: MindScrew: Even before the weird stuff starts, the huge number of characters, constantly shifting point-of-view and weird structure make it a real challenge to read. By the time you've gotten a grasp on how to read it, the plot begins sliding into strange as well...well...
* NewHouseNewProblems: The Ibrahims have moved to Los Angeles at the start of the story. In their new city, they find the cat and take it in, causing all the horror-like things starting to happen with Xanther. Also, even before that, the house itself is in bad shape, with a leaking roof, which seems to be foreshadowing.
* NewHouseNewProblems: The Ibrahims have moved to Los Angeles at the start of the story. In their new city, they find the cat and take it in, causing all the horror-like things starting to happen with Xanther. Also, even before that, the house itself is in bad shape, with a leaking roof, which seems to be foreshadowing.
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* ShownTheirWork: Places, landmarks and streets are described in much detail as they exist in real life. Danielewski lives in Los Angeles himself, and most of the chapters take place there; but he also purposefully lived in Singapore for a while, as that city also plays a big role. He also spent time with a L.A. detective and with computer programmers to portray Oz' and Anwar's professions right. Then there's the sheer amount of foreign languagues used (including Chinese and Arabic).
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* AndYourRewardIsEdible: Xanther puts a lot of effort into finding the owner of the cat, by distributing posters. Anwar, knowing she does this despite being attached to the cat herself, because it's the right thing to do, afterwards takes her out for an ice cream because he's proud of her. It's more heartwarming considering that she's on an extremely strict, "ketogenic" diet and hasn't eaten sugar in any form for a long time.
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[[/note]] The "series" is split into "seasons" of about 5 books, with Volume 5 the "first season finale".
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* PosthumousCharacter:
** Dov is dead from the beginning of the first book on. He's Xanther's biological father and Astair's Amicable Ex, and sometimes is featured in the narrative even though he's dead.
** Realic is a character we only hear of ''after'' he was murdered. He knew both Anwar and Cas, and frequently pops up in their narrative; also, Realic's article "Clip 4" is very important to the plot.
** Dov is dead from the beginning of the first book on. He's Xanther's biological father and Astair's Amicable Ex, and sometimes is featured in the narrative even though he's dead.
** Realic is a character we only hear of ''after'' he was murdered. He knew both Anwar and Cas, and frequently pops up in their narrative; also, Realic's article "Clip 4" is very important to the plot.
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* CharacterTitle: Vol. 01: "Dr. Potts" (Xanther's psychiatrist she spends the chapter with) is a chapter title. "zhong" and "raeden" for jingjing (one of tian li's clients he's at during the chapter, and zhong's son whom zhong asks tian li to heal), and "auntie" (the way he addresses tian li, Singlish way to address older ladies). Vol. 02: "Eldon Avantine" is a chapter name, and is Astair's newly-assigned supervisor for her writing her thesis. "Planski" is a chapter title and Oz' co-worker. "The Mayor" is a title as well as a minor character, the criminal boss of Isandorno.
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* GenderBlenderName: Xanther has a classmate called Lindsey, and herself wonders that that's an uncommon name for a boy.
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* ThePlace: Vol. 01: "Lupita's" and "Square One" are the places where respectively Luther, and Anwar & Xanther have breakfast in in a chapter. "palace above the day" is this in a more abstract way, as that is how jingjing describes zhong's (pent)house in a chapter, and that place plays a big role in that chapter. "Bones Nest" is the pet shop Astair is in in a chapter. Vol. 02: "Frogtown" is a chapter title, and a neighborhood of Los Angeles where the chapter takes place for Luther.
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* CharacterTitle: "Dr. Potts" (Xanther's psychiatrist she spends the chapter with) is a chapter title. "zhong" and "raeden" for jingjing (one of tian li's clients he's at during the chapter, and zhong's son whom zhong asks tian li to heal), and "auntie" (the way he addresses tian li, Singlish way to address older ladies).
* DramaticEllipsis: "If Anything...", the title of the last chapter of Book 1, that is the cliffhanger to Book 2.
* ExtremelyShortTimespan: Considering how BIG the book is, the fact that all of it takes place in just one day (hence the title; and to be precise it even is only 15 hours) is remarkable. Probably Justified because there are [[LoadsAndLoadsOfCharacters so many characters]] to introduce.
* GenderBlenderName: Xanther mentions she has a classmate called Lindsey, and herself wonders that that's an uncommon name for a boy.
* ThePlace: "Lupita's" and "Square One" are the places where respectively Luther, and Anwar & Xanther have breakfast in in a chapter. "palace above the day" is this in a more abstract way, as that is how jingjing describes zhong's (pent)house in a chapter, and that place plays a big role in that chapter. "Bones Nest" is the pet shop Astair is in in a chapter.
!!Tropes found in Volume 2:Into the Forest
* CharacterTitle: "Eldon Avantine" is a chapter name, and is Astair's newly-assigned supervisor for her writing her thesis. "Planski" is a chapter title and Oz' co-worker. "The Mayor" is a title as well as a minor character, the criminal boss of Isandorno.
* ThePlace: "Frogtown" is a chapter title, and a neighborhood of Los Angeles where the chapter takes place for Luther.
* CharacterTitle: "Dr. Potts" (Xanther's psychiatrist she spends the chapter with) is a chapter title. "zhong" and "raeden" for jingjing (one of tian li's clients he's at during the chapter, and zhong's son whom zhong asks tian li to heal), and "auntie" (the way he addresses tian li, Singlish way to address older ladies).
* DramaticEllipsis: "If Anything...", the title of the last chapter of Book 1, that is the cliffhanger to Book 2.
* ExtremelyShortTimespan: Considering how BIG the book is, the fact that all of it takes place in just one day (hence the title; and to be precise it even is only 15 hours) is remarkable. Probably Justified because there are [[LoadsAndLoadsOfCharacters so many characters]] to introduce.
* GenderBlenderName: Xanther mentions she has a classmate called Lindsey, and herself wonders that that's an uncommon name for a boy.
* ThePlace: "Lupita's" and "Square One" are the places where respectively Luther, and Anwar & Xanther have breakfast in in a chapter. "palace above the day" is this in a more abstract way, as that is how jingjing describes zhong's (pent)house in a chapter, and that place plays a big role in that chapter. "Bones Nest" is the pet shop Astair is in in a chapter.
!!Tropes found in Volume 2:Into the Forest
* CharacterTitle: "Eldon Avantine" is a chapter name, and is Astair's newly-assigned supervisor for her writing her thesis. "Planski" is a chapter title and Oz' co-worker. "The Mayor" is a title as well as a minor character, the criminal boss of Isandorno.
* ThePlace: "Frogtown" is a chapter title, and a neighborhood of Los Angeles where the chapter takes place for Luther.
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* CharacterTitle: Vol. 01: "Dr. Potts" (Xanther's psychiatrist she spends the chapter with) is a chapter title. "zhong" and "raeden" for jingjing (one of tian li's clients he's at during the chapter, and zhong's son whom zhong asks tian li to heal), and "auntie" (the way he addresses tian li, Singlish way to address older ladies). Vol. 02: "Eldon Avantine" is a chapter name, and is Astair's newly-assigned supervisor for her writing her thesis. "Planski" is a chapter title and Oz' co-worker. "The Mayor" is a title as well as a minor character, the criminal boss of Isandorno.
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* ThePlace: Vol. 01: "Lupita's" and "Square One" are the places where respectively Luther, and Anwar & Xanther have breakfast in in a chapter. "palace above the day" is this in a more abstract way, as that is how jingjing describes zhong's (pent)house in a chapter, and that place plays a big role in that chapter. "Bones Nest" is the pet shop Astair is in in a chapter. Vol. 02: "Frogtown" is a chapter title, and a neighborhood of Los Angeles where the chapter takes place for Luther.
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** Much like in House of Leaves, al''l''ways is always printed with two Ls.
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** Much like in House of Leaves, The Fifty Year Sword or Only Revolutions, al''l''ways is always printed with two Ls.
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* LoadsAndLoadsOfCharacters: With nine protagonists each telling their story, a scope around the globe, and 27 books planned - there are many characters. A summary listing most of them can be found [[http://forums.markzdanielewski.com/forum/the-familiar/the-familiar-aa/159327-list-of-characters here]].$
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* LoadsAndLoadsOfCharacters: With nine protagonists each telling their story, a scope around the globe, and 27 books planned - planned, there are many characters. A summary listing most of them can be found [[http://forums.markzdanielewski.com/forum/the-familiar/the-familiar-aa/159327-list-of-characters here]].$
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* TitleDrop:
** Played With for the book's title itself - any occurence of ''familiar'' is printed in pink to emphasize it, but they always occur as either part of a longer word ("''familiar''ize", "''familiar''ity") or are just the adjective of the word instead of the noun as in the title.
** Played With for the book's title itself - any occurence of ''familiar'' is printed in pink to emphasize it, but they always occur as either part of a longer word ("''familiar''ize", "''familiar''ity") or are just the adjective of the word instead of the noun as in the title.
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* TitleDrop:
**TitleDrop: Played With for the book's title itself - any itself--any occurence of ''familiar'' is printed in pink to emphasize it, but they always occur as either part of a longer word ("''familiar''ize", "''familiar''ity") or are just the adjective of the word instead of the noun as in the title.
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** In one instance, there is an entire Spanish handwritten letter that doesn't get translated for the characters until the end of the chapter.
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** In one instance, there is an entire Spanish handwritten letter Some of Anwar's (a computer programmer) lines are preceded by // which might seem like just another typographical gimmick/oddity, but if you know even the most basic C++ (or other computer language), you'll recognize that doesn't get translated for the characters until the end of the chapter.it denotes a ''[[https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Comment_(computer_programming) comment]]''--and indeed, this text is mostly himself commenting on his own thoughts.
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* OneOfTheBoys: The group of friends Xanther has made at her new school are boys.
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* OneOfTheBoys: NoNameGiven: The group of friends cat Xanther has made at her new school are boys.takes in is not given a name (at least, in the first four volumes), and just referred to as the cat/kitten. Likewise when it [[spoiler:still was with tian li]].
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** Played With for the book's title itself - any occurence of ''familiar'' is printed in pink to emphasize it, but they always occur as either part of a longer word (familiarize, familiarity) or are just the adjective of the word instead of the noun as in the title.
** Many of the chapters are named after quotes actually happening in those chapters. From Volume 1:
*** ''"Is Everything Okay?"'' - Anwar asks Xanther this, and it is mentioned that it is sort of a catch phrase of his, to Xanther's dismay.
*** ''"Yeah man. Something died."'' - This quote is spoken over the phone by Shnorkh's witness when Shnorkh is trying to contact him.
*** ''"Is little irrelevant"'' - Something Shnorkh says in the chapter.
*** ''"Save him!"'' - A quote Xanther says to Anwar in his chapter.
*** ''"Mom, it's a--"'' - Again, a quote Xanther says to her mother.
*** ''"If Anything..."'' - A quote from Xanther's thoughts.
* TrivialTitle: "Cinnamon" is one of Astair's chapter titles, and it's mysterious why, because cinnamon doesn't appear and isn't referenced in the chapter. This is stark contrast to the other chapters, that are named after a character, a place, an important object, or a quote from the chapter.
** Many of the chapters are named after quotes actually happening in those chapters. From Volume 1:
*** ''"Is Everything Okay?"'' - Anwar asks Xanther this, and it is mentioned that it is sort of a catch phrase of his, to Xanther's dismay.
*** ''"Yeah man. Something died."'' - This quote is spoken over the phone by Shnorkh's witness when Shnorkh is trying to contact him.
*** ''"Is little irrelevant"'' - Something Shnorkh says in the chapter.
*** ''"Save him!"'' - A quote Xanther says to Anwar in his chapter.
*** ''"Mom, it's a--"'' - Again, a quote Xanther says to her mother.
*** ''"If Anything..."'' - A quote from Xanther's thoughts.
* TrivialTitle: "Cinnamon" is one of Astair's chapter titles, and it's mysterious why, because cinnamon doesn't appear and isn't referenced in the chapter. This is stark contrast to the other chapters, that are named after a character, a place, an important object, or a quote from the chapter.
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** Played With for the book's title itself - any occurence of ''familiar'' is printed in pink to emphasize it, but they always occur as either part of a longer word (familiarize, familiarity) ("''familiar''ize", "''familiar''ity") or are just the adjective of the word instead of the noun as in the title.
** Many of the chapters are named after quotes actually happening in those chapters. From Volume 1:
*** ''"Is Everything Okay?"'' - Anwar asks Xanther this, and it is mentioned that it is sort of a catch phrase of his, to Xanther's dismay.
*** ''"Yeah man. Something died."'' - This quote is spoken over the phone by Shnorkh's witness when Shnorkh is trying to contact him.
*** ''"Is little irrelevant"'' - Something Shnorkh says in the chapter.
*** ''"Save him!"'' - A quote Xanther says to Anwar in his chapter.
*** ''"Mom, it's a--"'' - Again, a quote Xanther says to her mother.
*** ''"If Anything..."'' - A quote from Xanther's thoughts.
* TrivialTitle: "Cinnamon" is one of Astair's chapter titles, and it's mysterious why, because cinnamon doesn't appear and isn't referenced in the chapter. This is stark contrast to the other chapters, that are named after a character, a place, an important object, or a quote from the chapter.title.
** Many of the chapters are named after quotes actually happening in those chapters. From Volume 1:
*** ''"Is Everything Okay?"'' - Anwar asks Xanther this, and it is mentioned that it is sort of a catch phrase of his, to Xanther's dismay.
*** ''"Yeah man. Something died."'' - This quote is spoken over the phone by Shnorkh's witness when Shnorkh is trying to contact him.
*** ''"Is little irrelevant"'' - Something Shnorkh says in the chapter.
*** ''"Save him!"'' - A quote Xanther says to Anwar in his chapter.
*** ''"Mom, it's a--"'' - Again, a quote Xanther says to her mother.
*** ''"If Anything..."'' - A quote from Xanther's thoughts.
* TrivialTitle: "Cinnamon" is one of Astair's chapter titles, and it's mysterious why, because cinnamon doesn't appear and isn't referenced in the chapter. This is stark contrast to the other chapters, that are named after a character, a place, an important object, or a quote from the chapter.
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* GenderBlenderName: Xanther has a classmate called Lindsey, and herself wonders that that's an uncommon name for a boy.
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* FictionalSocialNetwork: A fictional app called Parcel Thoughts is used by Xanther and her classmates, and by Luther and his gang. It apparently is the most ubiquitous social media app In Universe, although Real Life social media like Twitter and Instagram also feature often.
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* FictionalSocialNetwork: A fictional app called Parcel Thoughts is used by Xanther and her classmates, and by Luther and his gang. gang [[note]]In Real Life, a website parcelthoughts.com exists and according to the domain name registration, is registered / created by the author of the book himself; however, this website as of 2017 is just a front page and doesn't do anything[[/note]]. It apparently is the most ubiquitous social media app In Universe, although Real Life social media like Twitter and Instagram also feature often.often.
* GenderBlenderName: Xanther has a classmate called Lindsey, and herself wonders that that's an uncommon name for a boy.
* GenderBlenderName: Xanther has a classmate called Lindsey, and herself wonders that that's an uncommon name for a boy.
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* CuteKitten: Inverted for Xanther's kitten, who everybody except Xanther feels something is very "off" or creepy about. And then the vet reveals that, despite looking like a kitten from the outside, it is actually very old, something he can't explain. It seems to influence people close to it supernaturally (tian li's healing powers) and physically (Xanther getting sick when the kitten is not near).
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* FictionalSocialMedia: A fictional app called Parcel Thoughts is used by Xanther and her classmates, and by Luther and his gang. It apparently is the most ubiquitous social media app In Universe, although Real Life social media like Twitter and Instagram also feature often.
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* DramaticEllipsis: "If Anything...", the title of the last chapter of Book 1, that is the cliffhanger to Book 2.
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* CharacterTitle: "Dr. Potts" (Xanther's psychiatrist she spends the chapter with) is a chapter title. "zhong" and "raeden" for jingjing (one of tian li's clients he's at during the chapter, and zhong's son whom zhong asks tian li to heal), and "auntie" (the way he addresses tian li, Singlish way to address older ladies).
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* ThePlace: "Lupita's" and "Square One" are the places where respectively Luther, and Anwar & Xanther have breakfast in in a chapter. "palace above the day" is this in a more abstract way, as that is how jingjing describes zhong's (pent)house in a chapter. "Bones Nest" is the pet shop Astair is in in a chapter.
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''The Familiar'' is a book series written by {{New Weird}} author Creator/MarkZDanielewski, best known as the author of ''Literature/HouseOfLeaves'' and ''Literature/OnlyRevolutions''. Much like those books, the series is an exploration of post-modernist themes through the usage of the author's trademark UnconventionalFormatting and unique writing style. With elements of science fiction, horror, conspiracy thriller, crime/detective, cyber punk and young adult, it is quite the GenreBuster.
Danielewski has likened this book project to serialized television, and has said the amount of books in this series will be 27 novels in total and that two new Volumes of the series will be released per year. Considering Volume 1 was released May 2015 and supposing the author keeps up with what he promises (two Volumes/year) this would mean the final Volume will be released end 2028. [[note]]As of 2017, the author / publisher have a contract to respectively write / publish 10 novels. Depending on the success of these, they might be extended to the 27 novels the author according to himself has planned.[[/note]]
Danielewski has likened this book project to serialized television, and has said the amount of books in this series will be 27 novels in total and that two new Volumes of the series will be released per year. Considering Volume 1 was released May 2015 and supposing the author keeps up with what he promises (two Volumes/year) this would mean the final Volume will be released end 2028. [[note]]As of 2017, the author / publisher have a contract to respectively write / publish 10 novels. Depending on the success of these, they might be extended to the 27 novels the author according to himself has planned.[[/note]]
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''The Familiar'' is a book series written by {{New Weird}} author Creator/MarkZDanielewski, best known as the author of ''Literature/HouseOfLeaves'' and ''Literature/OnlyRevolutions''. Much like those books, the series is an exploration of post-modernist themes through the usage of the author's trademark UnconventionalFormatting and unique writing style. With elements Being a blend of science fiction, horror, conspiracy thriller, crime/detective, and cyber punk and young adult, punk, it is quite the GenreBuster.
Danielewski has likened this book project to serialized television, and has said the amount of books in this series will be 27 novels in total and that two new Volumes of the series will be released per year. Considering Volume 1 was released May 2015 and supposing the author keeps up with what he promises (two Volumes/year) this would mean the final Volume will be released end 2028. [[note]]As of 2017, the author / publisher have a contract to respectively write / publish 10 novels. Depending on the success of these, they might be extended to the 27 novels the author according to himself has planned.[[/note]]
Danielewski has likened this book project to serialized television, and has said the amount of books in this series will be 27 novels in total and that two new Volumes of the series will be released per year. Considering Volume 1 was released May 2015 and supposing the author keeps up with what he promises (two Volumes/year) this would mean the final Volume will be released end 2028. [[note]]As of 2017, the author / publisher have a contract to respectively write / publish 10 novels.
* AlliterativeName: Alvin Alex Anderson, who later turns out to be the same person as somebody previously OnlyKnownByTheirNickname.
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** ''Literature/HouseOfLeaves'' itself has been subtly referenced (e.g. how jingjing describes zhong's apartment in [=V01Ch12=], ''palace above the day''). There has been much speculation among Danielewski readers if the ''House of Leaves'' exists in the same universe as ''The Familiar'', and whether it will be more directly featured in future ''The Familiar'' Volumes.
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** ''Literature/HouseOfLeaves'' The House from [[Literature/HouseOfLeaves House of Leaves]] itself has been subtly referenced (e.g. how jingjing describes zhong's apartment in [=V01Ch12=], ''palace above the day''). There has been much speculation among Danielewski readers if day'', and the ''House of Leaves'' exists in fact that the same universe as ''The Familiar'', and whether it will be more directly featured word House sometimes is printed in future ''The Familiar'' Volumes.blue).
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* {{Color Coded Characters}}:
** Each character's chapters are represented by a different color, found in the top corner of each page:
*** Xanther: Pink
*** Luther: Black
*** Anwar: Green
*** jingjing: Blue
*** Astair: Orange
*** Cas: Red
*** Oz: Grey
*** Shnorkh: Brown
*** Isandòrno: Yellow
*** [=NarCons=]: No color in the page tip; and their pages are printed on sharp white paper while the rest of the book / character's narratives' pages are on slightly yellowish paper (so subtly colored that you won't even realize most of the book isn't printed on sharp white pages, untill you reach the [=NarCon=] chapter).
** It gets deeper. Each character does not only have their specific page-corner color, but underneath the page-tip, each character has a stripe in a different color, some of which correspond to other character's page-corner colors. Much speculation has arisen about what this says about connections between the characters in Volumes to come (see [[https://www.reddit.com/r/TheFamiliar/comments/4pas1k/possible_character_hierarchy_arrows_point_from/ this link]] for some WMG theories), but as of Volume 4 / early 2017, their significance is still not clear. The stripes are:
*** Xanther's: Black, referring to Luther
*** Luther's: Yellow, referring to Isandòrno
*** Anwar's: Red, referring to Cas
*** jingjing's: Pink, but a much more brighter and darker pink than Xanther's - still probably referring to Xanther?
*** Astair's: Ambiguous - Salmon. Doesn't correspond to any other character's color
*** Cas': Ambiguous - Blueish-purple-lilac? Doesn't correspond to any other character's color
*** Oz's: Brown - Possibly referring to Shnorkh, but Isandòrno is as well
*** Shnorkh's: Grey, referring to Oz
*** Isandòrno's: Brown - Possibly referring to Shnorkh, but Oz is as well.
** Each character's chapters are represented by a different color, found in the top corner of each page:
*** Xanther: Pink
*** Luther: Black
*** Anwar: Green
*** jingjing: Blue
*** Astair: Orange
*** Cas: Red
*** Oz: Grey
*** Shnorkh: Brown
*** Isandòrno: Yellow
*** [=NarCons=]: No color in the page tip; and their pages are printed on sharp white paper while the rest of the book / character's narratives' pages are on slightly yellowish paper (so subtly colored that you won't even realize most of the book isn't printed on sharp white pages, untill you reach the [=NarCon=] chapter).
** It gets deeper. Each character does not only have their specific page-corner color, but underneath the page-tip, each character has a stripe in a different color, some of which correspond to other character's page-corner colors. Much speculation has arisen about what this says about connections between the characters in Volumes to come (see [[https://www.reddit.com/r/TheFamiliar/comments/4pas1k/possible_character_hierarchy_arrows_point_from/ this link]] for some WMG theories), but as of Volume 4 / early 2017, their significance is still not clear. The stripes are:
*** Xanther's: Black, referring to Luther
*** Luther's: Yellow, referring to Isandòrno
*** Anwar's: Red, referring to Cas
*** jingjing's: Pink, but a much more brighter and darker pink than Xanther's - still probably referring to Xanther?
*** Astair's: Ambiguous - Salmon. Doesn't correspond to any other character's color
*** Cas': Ambiguous - Blueish-purple-lilac? Doesn't correspond to any other character's color
*** Oz's: Brown - Possibly referring to Shnorkh, but Isandòrno is as well
*** Shnorkh's: Grey, referring to Oz
*** Isandòrno's: Brown - Possibly referring to Shnorkh, but Oz is as well.
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* {{Color Coded Characters}}:
**Characters}}: Each character's chapters are represented by a different color, found in the top corner of each page:
*** Xanther: Pink
*** Luther: Black
*** Anwar: Green
*** jingjing: Blue
*** Astair: Orange
*** Cas: Red
*** Oz: Grey
*** Shnorkh: Brown
*** Isandòrno: Yellow
*** [=NarCons=]: No color in the page tip; and their pages are printed on sharp white paper while the rest of the book / character's narratives' pages are on slightly yellowish paper (so subtly colored that you won't even realize most of the book isn't printed on sharp white pages, untill you reach the [=NarCon=] chapter).
** It gets deeper. Each character does not only have their specific page-corner color, but underneath the page-tip, each character has a stripe in a different color, some of which correspond to other character's page-corner colors. Much speculation has arisen about what this says about connections between the characters in Volumes to come (see [[https://www.reddit.com/r/TheFamiliar/comments/4pas1k/possible_character_hierarchy_arrows_point_from/ this link]] for some WMG theories), but as of Volume 4 / early 2017, their significance is still not clear. The stripes are:
*** Xanther's: Black, referring to Luther
*** Luther's: Yellow, referring to Isandòrno
*** Anwar's: Red, referring to Cas
*** jingjing's: Pink, but a much more brighter and darker pink than Xanther's - still probably referring to Xanther?
*** Astair's: Ambiguous - Salmon. Doesn't correspond to any other character's color
*** Cas': Ambiguous - Blueish-purple-lilac? Doesn't correspond to any other character's color
*** Oz's: Brown - Possibly referring to Shnorkh, but Isandòrno is as well
*** Shnorkh's: Grey, referring to Oz
*** Isandòrno's: Brown - Possibly referring to Shnorkh, but Oz is as well.page.
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*** Xanther: Pink
*** Luther: Black
*** Anwar: Green
*** jingjing: Blue
*** Astair: Orange
*** Cas: Red
*** Oz: Grey
*** Shnorkh: Brown
*** Isandòrno: Yellow
*** [=NarCons=]: No color in the page tip; and their pages are printed on sharp white paper while the rest of the book / character's narratives' pages are on slightly yellowish paper (so subtly colored that you won't even realize most of the book isn't printed on sharp white pages, untill you reach the [=NarCon=] chapter).
** It gets deeper. Each character does not only have their specific page-corner color, but underneath the page-tip, each character has a stripe in a different color, some of which correspond to other character's page-corner colors. Much speculation has arisen about what this says about connections between the characters in Volumes to come (see [[https://www.reddit.com/r/TheFamiliar/comments/4pas1k/possible_character_hierarchy_arrows_point_from/ this link]] for some WMG theories), but as of Volume 4 / early 2017, their significance is still not clear. The stripes are:
*** Xanther's: Black, referring to Luther
*** Luther's: Yellow, referring to Isandòrno
*** Anwar's: Red, referring to Cas
*** jingjing's: Pink, but a much more brighter and darker pink than Xanther's - still probably referring to Xanther?
*** Astair's: Ambiguous - Salmon. Doesn't correspond to any other character's color
*** Cas': Ambiguous - Blueish-purple-lilac? Doesn't correspond to any other character's color
*** Oz's: Brown - Possibly referring to Shnorkh, but Isandòrno is as well
*** Shnorkh's: Grey, referring to Oz
*** Isandòrno's: Brown - Possibly referring to Shnorkh, but Oz is as well.
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