The Short Version: Modeled on the Chilean Academic Aptitude Test, readers are instructed to take a multiple choice test covering reading comprehension, vocabulary, sentence structure, and more. The Review: I have the feeling that certain readers will find this book overly gimmicky or infuriating as hell. It is, of course, exactly what it sets out to be: a novel (or, well, a piece of literature) constructed in the form of a classic Scantron multiple choice aptitude test. There is no moment where the […]

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