In the audio, the reading takes the most direct path through this, which means that that recursive nature of the 'adventure' (the way that the choice is not much of a choice at all) is lost, as are several entries which are on pages that you can't legitimately get to in the choose your own adventure numbering (these pages berate the reader for reading linearly, as if they're trying to break out of the cycle of abuse). Second, the book has a chapter called 'Dream House as Choose Your Own Adventure'. The commonality has in fact been foreshadowed throughout by the footnote references to a motif taxonomy, which is entirely absent from the audio. Losing these means that one of the points of the narrative is lost: the narrator/author says she 'wanted to believe that my love was unique and my pain was unique' but then she discovers, in researching it, that it is a common story (p.266). Some of these give further details relating to the text, interesting back stories to people and events mentioned, etc., but most of these notes relate to Thompson's _Motif Index of Folk Literature_. First, the book has fairly frequent footnotes. But I was very glad that I also had a physical copy of the book, because there are certain aspects that don't come over well (or at all) in the audio. This is a really good reading by the author of a book that, as you can see from my ratings, I thought was excellent. Great, but missing elements of the written text
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