Have a question about how the TVTropes wiki works? No one knows this community better than the people in it, so ask away! Ask the Tropers is the page you come to when you have a question burning in your brain and the support pages didn't help.
It's not for everything, though. For a list of all the resources for your questions, click here. You can also go to this Directory thread
for ongoing cleanup projects.
It's one thing when people get the trope definition wrong when they see the name but not the description, but in this case, even the name was ignored. It may be a game to reverse the track order of Concept Albums to change their message/plot, but how anyone could mistake a music album for a book is beyond me.
Edited by GastonRabbit You can't just say "perchance".The problem is not that it's a music album, but that it's non-interactive. An audio recording where each track ends with instructions like "If you eat the red pill, skip to track 8, otherwise to track 9" could fit the trope, since Tropes Are Flexible, but this is not the case here.
The idea with a gamebook is not that you read the sections in another order than they're written, but that the order is determined interactively, by the reader's choices while reading.
Even if this were a book it wouldn't fit: a book which has a different message when read backwards is not a game book unless it's interactive.
Edited by GnomeTitanI know what a gamebook is. I read several when I was younger. What I was trying to say is that the example is written like the person who added the misuse didn't read the name or the description (due to how utterly random it is), as opposed to how a lot of misuse comes from people who do read the name, but ignore the description (such as how Bad Dreams had to be renamed to Past Experience Nightmare because people thought any nightmare counted). For the usual kind of misuse, that would be if someone wrote about a game that involves a book in some way (either that, or they thought the trope was about strategy guides), but said book isn't actually a gamebook.
Edited by GastonRabbit You can't just say "perchance".I didn't mean to imply that you didn't know what a gamebook is; sorry if I made that impression. I was trying to say that we shouldn't focus so much about that game books are books (because I can imagine an audio recording that works like a game book) but on the fact that a game book is interactive. Tropes are flexible and it's not uncommon to extend a trope that was created for one medium to another medium, but for that to work there has to be more similarities than reading/listening backwards.
In other words, to me the misuse is not so much that they're calling a music album a game book but that they're calling it a game book - there's no game involved and no interactivity.
I agree that the example is shoehorned and should be cut.
Edited by GnomeTitan

For the record, I've removed this entry from Gamebooks.
I mean, seriously?