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* This is [[Tom Robbins]]' default mode of writing, with all his novels stuffed with hilarious, often pointless asides. ''[[Even Cowgirls Get The Blues]]'', for instance, interrupts the narration mid sentence for a meditation on the nature of reality, culminating in a list of the properties of sentences. "This sentence is made of wood. This sentence is made of yak wool. This sentence suffered a split infinite... and survived. This sentence may be pregnant, it missed it's period" and so on.

* There is a [[Vanity Publishing|vanity-published]] book called ''Samantha Stone and the Mermaid's Quest''. It's actually a pretty good book, but wow, does its narrator want to comment on the action. Lots of similes made comparing characters and situations to seemingly random things - quite a few having to do with the culture of the American South - and lots of asides like "he didn't want to leave Sam with him, for reasons you'll find out later", "Sam wondered where she heard that word before, but you, you clever young reader, probably remember", and even references to "things you're too young to know about." Heck, you know how books often foreshadow which characters will be important later by giving them names and describing them in more detail than others? This book outright lampshades it, with the narrator naming three of the villains and specifically referring to them as "three that you'll meet later" beforehand.

* In ''[[Hans Brinker or The Silver Skates]]'', most of the book was written with standard narration. In a few places it lapsed into Lemony Narration, such as when the narrator pondered why Santa didn't visit the destitute Brinker household on Christmas. Most jarringly, however, was at the end with the narrator telling you that you didn't care whether Hans or Peter won the race.

* ''[[The Pendragon Adventure]]'': Bobby's narration in the journals he sends to his friends is often very snarky.