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6A book with two different stories--you read one side, then flip the book over and read the other one. The technical name for this type of book is tête-bêche; it is sometimes improperly called dos-à-dos, which properly refers to an even stranger book style that has two spines.
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8It's a form of PaintingTheMedium that enhances any parallelisms present in the work, be it contrasting arguments, {{Hourglass Plot}}s, or {{Perspective Flip}}s. As a result, it's rare for books in this format to not contain thematically connected or otherwise related stories.
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10Related to UnconventionalFormatting (when words are arranged on the page in unusual or confusing ways), just in a whole-book scale. Compare PageTurnSurprise (a {{cliffhanger}}'s resolution is strategically placed on the next page).
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17* ''Manga/{{Naruto}}'': InUniverse example. Sai has an art book featuring pictures of himself and his brother on their respective journeys through life, each tale chronicled from opposite ends of the book. The picture in the middle is not completed.
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21* ''ComicBook/BatmanSupermanInfiniteFrontier'': The 2021 ''Batman/Superman Annual''. One side has a story about Superman, the other has a story about Batman, and they meet up in the middle. The central double-page spread has panels spiralling in toward the middle, arranged so that whichever direction you're reading from the panel at the top left continues the story from the previous page.
22* ''ComicBook/{{FantaSci}}'': The last issue of this Creator/AppleComics anthology is labeled "An Apple Turnover", with one story on each side, and a centerfold picture of an EldritchAbomination that looked equally horrible either way up.
23* ''ComicBook/YoungbloodImageComics'':
24** The first issue includes two stories, flipped 180 degrees from each other. One story featured Youngblood's "Home Team", which dealt with domestic threats, while the other featured the "Away Team", which dealt with international threats.
25** After a long delay, ''Youngblood'' #5 eventually came out as the flip-side to the similarly-delayed ''Brigade'' #4.
26* In the early days of Creator/ImageComics it wasn't uncommon to see promos for upcoming series included on the flip side of existing series.
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30* ''Literature/TheGreatSnapeDebate'', published just before the last ''Literature/{{Harry Potter|and the Deathly Hallows}}'' novel offered the evidence for and against Severus Snape, with each half listing the arguments for one side, with some editions instead going for the more traditional single-sided look.
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34* Franchise/DisneyAnimatedCanon: "My Side of the Story" is a series of books in which one of its films [[RashomonStyle is told from different points of view]]; one side of the book is for the hero, and the other side is for the villain, with the story ending in the middle. These include ''WesternAnimation/SnowWhiteAndTheSevenDwarfs'' (Snow White and Queen Grimhilde), ''WesternAnimation/{{Cinderella}}'' (Cinderella and Lady Tremaine), ''WesternAnimation/PeterPan'' (Peter Pan and Captain Hook), ''WesternAnimation/SleepingBeauty'' (Princess Aurora and Maleficent), ''WesternAnimation/OneHundredAndOneDalmatians'' (The Puppies and Cruella De Vil), and ''WesternAnimation/TheLittleMermaid1989'' (Ariel and Ursula).
35* ''WesternAnimation/Frozen2013'': In the tie-in picture book ''Anna's Act of Love'', the story is told from Anna's first-person point-of-view. Starting from the opposite cover of the book, ''Elsa's Icy Magic'' has Elsa as the protagonist.
36* ''WesternAnimation/InsideOut'': In ''Joy's Greatest Joy/Simply Sadness'', Joy and Sadness share their favorite memories of Riley. The two stories meet in the middle when the two emotions settle on the day of Riley's big playoff game as their favorite memory. For Sadness, it was because Riley missed the winning shot, felt awful, and wanted to quit, but her parents cheered her up by listening to her and telling her about the times they lost as well. For Joy, it was because Riley's hockey team congratulated Riley for doing her best and Riley's parents ordered pizza for lunch.
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40* ''Film/{{Borat}}'': After the film came out, a double-sided book was released, supposedly written by the titular character. One side was titled "Touristic Guidings to Minor Nation of U.S. and A." and the other side was "Touristic Guidings to Glorious Nation of Kazakhstan". They were both, of course, riddled with broken English and glaring factual errors, as per the usual for Borat.
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44* ''Literature/MrAndMrsSmith'': The upside-down version only had the initial chapter in which they meet from alternating points of view.
45* Ace Books used the format in their Ace Doubles series from the late 1950s through to the early 1970s. Most of the Ace Doubles comprised one book by an established author and one by a relative unknown, in an attempt to boost the unknowns' recognition. It's also worth noting that because of the Doubles' fixed page lengths (usually between 256 and 320 pages), novels often had to be abridged to fit.
46* This is also the format of the large-format ''Creator/MontyPython's Life of Brian / Monty Python Scrapbook''.
47* ''Literature/OnlyRevolutions'' by Mark Z. Danielewski.
48* ''Literature/StarTrekDeepSpaceNineRelaunch'': ''Fearful Symmetry'' is in this format. The dualism conveys Iliana Ghemor's storyline of being surgically altered so she could be sent into deep cover as another woman. And that their mirror-universe counterparts also play an important role.
49* Creator/BrianFroud's ''Bad Fairies[=/=]Good Fairies''. The critter in the middle could look like either, depending on which way up the picture is.
50* ''[[Literature/SoulSuckingBrainZombiesDuology Double Feature: Attack of the Soul-Sucking Brain Zombies/Bride of the Soul-Sucking Brain Zombies]]'', one of the sequels to ''Literature/GeographyClub'' (about the members of a high school gay-straight alliance) by Brent Hartinger, did this.
51* ''The Pirates! In an adventure with scientists'' and ''" " Ahab''.
52* ''The Incredible Journey to the Center of the Atom'' by Trevor Day and Nicholas Harris is a popular science book which - depending on whether it is read forward or backward - takes the reader on a trip from the vastness of the galaxy to the individual nucleons, or vice versa; and provides either scientific commentary or poetic musings, depending on the way.
53* There was a tell-all book published about [[DrillSergeantNasty legendary basketball coach]] Bob Knight, made in an upside-down way. One side was titled "What a Knight!" and praised his coaching prowess and talked up his skills on the court when he was in his prime. The other side was titled "Knightmares" and generally dealt with Knight's TrainingFromHell as applied to his players, and his GeneralRipper relationship with the media.
54* There's an old Companion Library edition of ''Literature/ArabianNights'' and ''Literature/AesopsFables'' that was published back in 1963 by Grosset & Dunlap.
55* The ''Series/SesameStreet'' book ''[[http://muppet.fandom.com/wiki/I%27m_My_Mommy_-_I%27m_My_Daddy I'm My Mommy – I'm My Daddy]]'' was published in 1975. In the center of the book is a two-page spread showing an aerial view of the family's living room.
56* This was also used in 1975 for a series of joke books compiled by Larry Wilde -- for example, one volume had "The [[BlatantLies Official]] Polish Joke Book" on one side and "The [[BlatantLies Official]] Italian Joke Book" on the other.
57* ''Literature/{{Beatrice and Virgil}}'' by Yann Martel: It looks like one of these, and the author character in the book writes an unsuccessful version of one, but if you start reading at the back, you'll come across the tail end of a list and probably start at the real beginning.
58* ''Escape From War'' by James Riordan, a WWII history children's book: one side told the story of Frank, a boy growing up in wartime Britain, and the other told the story of Hannah, a Jewish girl who escapes Nazi Germany. The stories intersect at the end, where the Jewish girl gives a talk in front of the boy's classroom.
59* Tor Books' double-sided book series: #9 is ''Literature/TheUglyLittleBoy'' and ''The Widget, The Wadget And Boff''.
60* Viz Media's [[https://www.viz.com/read/graphic-novel/homestuck-epilogues/product/6154 physical release]] of ''Literature/TheHomestuckEpilogues''. The Meat side is black with a white logo and text, and the Candy side is white with a black logo and text.
61* Ace Books double novel series has D-110; ''No World Of Their Own'' by Creator/PoulAnderson on the front and ''Literature/TheThousandYearPlan'' by Creator/IsaacAsimov (the first novel of ''Literature/TheFoundationTrilogy'') on the back.
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65* ''Series/{{Ghostwriter}}'': One of the tie-in books (and possibly more) was this: Each side of the book told the story from a different character's viewpoint.
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69* ''Magazine/YenPlus'': This manga anthology magazine works like this, but slightly different from the usual; manhwa and OEL manga (which read left to right) are on one side, manga (reading right to left) on the other.
70* ''Bugs Bunny & Co.'', a German mag in the 90s printing comics based on ''Franchise/LooneyTunes'' and its {{Spin Off}}s, did this in its twilight years.
71* Many, many equipment manuals with English on one side and Spanish or French on the other.
72* ''Magazine/DoctorWhoMagazine'': In the Summer Special 1994, one side was "The Genesis of Doctor Who", with a cover picture from the VHS release of "[[Recap/DoctorWhoS1E1AnUnearthlyChild An Unearthly Child]]"; a transcript of Creator/WilliamHartnell's ''Radio/DesertIslandDiscs'' interview; an interview with Virginia Wetherall (Dyoni in "[[Recap/DoctorWhoS1E2TheDaleks The Daleks]]"); articles about the show's origins and the original title sequence; a fact file on "An Unearthly Child" (or "100,000 BC", as ''DWM'' insisted on calling it at the time); and a comic strip featuring First, Vicki and Steven. The other side was "The Destiny of Doctor Who", with a cover picture from the VHS release of "[[Recap/DoctorWhoS26E4Survival Survival]]"; interviews with Creator/SylvesterMcCoy and Creator/LisaBowerman (not yet Literature/BerniceSummerfield, but Karra in "Survival"); articles about eighties visual effects and the [=McCoy=] title sequence; a fact file on "Survival"; and a comic strip featuring Seventh and Benny that was a direct sequel to the First Doctor one.
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76* Rare double-tracked records contain two pieces of music on the same side accessible depending on where you placed the needle. Specific examples can be found on the HiddenTrack page.
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80* UsefulNotes/{{Gnosticism}}: The Ginza Rba—the primary religious scripture of the Mandeans—is divided into two sections, the Left and Right Ginza, which are typically printed upside-down from each other.
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84* ''Wrestling/RuthlessAggressionEra'': The Wrestling/{{WWE}}'s souvenir programs were divided into two parts printed upside-down from each other, with one half showing the roster of ''[[Wrestling/WWERaw Monday Night Raw]]'' and the other half showing the roster of ''[[Wrestling/WWESmackdown Thursday Night SmackDown]]''.
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88* ''TabletopGame/{{Traveller}}'' Classic's "Double Adventures" were like this. Each book had two mini-adventures, printed upside down to each other. This was done as a deliberate shout-out to the Ace Doubles.
89* Several ''TabletopGame/DarkSun'' adventures for ''TabletopGame/DungeonsAndDragons'' used this format: [=DS1=] ''Freedom'', [=DSQ1=] ''Road to Urik'', [=DSQ2=] ''Arcane Shadows'', [=DSQ3=] ''Asticlian Gambit'' and [=DSE1=] ''Dragon's Crown''.
90* The ''TabletopGame/CallOfCthulhu'' double adventure ''The Vanishing Conjurer''/''The Statue of the Sorcerer'', by Creator/{{Chaosium}} and Creator/GamesWorkshop.
91* The third edition of ''TabletopGame/InNomineSatanisMagnaVeritas'' had ''In Nomine Satanis'' on one side of the book, ''Magna Veritas'' on the other.
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95* ''Yin and Yang'', a short play about Literature/ErastFandorin, is like this. Each side of the book contains exactly the same criminal case with only a few key differences that lead up to largely different conclusions.
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99* ''VideoGame/GhostbustersTheVideoGame'': The StrategyGuide. One side is the "Realistic" version for [=PlayStation=] 3, Xbox 360, and PC, and the other is the "Stylistic" version for Wii and [=PlayStation=] 2.
100* Other cross-platform-but-different-for-each games have done the same thing; this includes ''Franchise/StarWars: VideoGame/TheForceUnleashed'' and ''VideoGame/IndianaJonesAndTheStaffOfKings''.
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104* ''Franchise/AdventureTime: The Enchiridion & Marcy's Super Secret Scrapbook!!!'': One half of this book is the Enchiridion featured in [[WesternAnimation/AdventureTime the show]], the other is Marceline's childhood diary.
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