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'''Basic Trope''': A book that can harm or kill the reader/writer.
* '''Straight''': ''The Big Book of Certain Doom'' contains entries on every possible way to die. If someone reads it, they will suffer whatever fate they first read about.
* '''Exaggerated''': ''The Big Book of Certain Doom'' contains entries on every possible way to die or suffer a FateWorseThanDeath. If anyone even opens it, everyone within a fifty mile radius will suffer one of the horrible things written in the book.
* '''Downplayed''': ''The Big Book of Certain Doom'' contains entries on every possible way to become injured. If someone reads it, they will suffer whatever injury they first read about.
* '''Justified''': ???
* '''Inverted''': ''The Big Book of Absolute Healing'' contains entries on how to cure every possible condition. If a person reads it, they will be cured of whatever condition they first read about.
* '''Subverted''': ''The Big Book of Certain Doom'' is a target of wide eyes and horror stories the moment it's dug out of a secret chamber...But Bob finds out that it's just a blackly funny book about ways a person can die.
* '''Double Subverted''':...But it turns out that reading the book summons supernatural SerialKiller Alice the Bloody, who likes to kill people based on the entries in the book.
* '''Parodied''': ''The Big Book of Certain Doom'' causes things like hangnails, hiccups, and bad hair days, but everyone in the story still treats it as a high-level ArtifactOfDoom.
* '''Zigzagged''': ???
* '''Averted''': No books in the story have any effect on the reader.
* '''Enforced''': ???
* '''Lampshaded''':
-->'''Bob''': And I used to think the only problem with books was papercuts!
* '''Invoked''':
** A wizard enchants ''The Big Book of Certain Doom'' to harm its reader.
** A person coats the pages of ''The Big Book of Certain Doom with poison.
* '''Exploited''': Dracone wants to get rid of Bob and knows he never saw a book he didn't read, so he leaves ''The Big Book of Certain Doom'' on Bob's desk where he can see it.
* '''Defied''': ???
* '''Discussed''': ???
* '''Conversed''': ???
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* '''Straight''': ''The Big Book of Certain Doom'' contains entries on every possible way to die. If someone reads it, they will suffer whatever fate they first read about.
* '''Exaggerated''': ''The Big Book of Certain Doom'' contains entries on every possible way to die or suffer a FateWorseThanDeath. If anyone even opens it, everyone within a fifty mile radius will suffer one of the horrible things written in the book.
* '''Downplayed''': ''The Big Book of Certain Doom'' contains entries on every possible way to become injured. If someone reads it, they will suffer whatever injury they first read about.
* '''Justified''': ???
* '''Inverted''': ''The Big Book of Absolute Healing'' contains entries on how to cure every possible condition. If a person reads it, they will be cured of whatever condition they first read about.
* '''Subverted''': ''The Big Book of Certain Doom'' is a target of wide eyes and horror stories the moment it's dug out of a secret chamber...But Bob finds out that it's just a blackly funny book about ways a person can die.
* '''Double Subverted''':...But it turns out that reading the book summons supernatural SerialKiller Alice the Bloody, who likes to kill people based on the entries in the book.
* '''Parodied''': ''The Big Book of Certain Doom'' causes things like hangnails, hiccups, and bad hair days, but everyone in the story still treats it as a high-level ArtifactOfDoom.
* '''Zigzagged''': ???
* '''Averted''': No books in the story have any effect on the reader.
* '''Enforced''': ???
* '''Lampshaded''':
-->'''Bob''': And I used to think the only problem with books was papercuts!
* '''Invoked''':
** A wizard enchants ''The Big Book of Certain Doom'' to harm its reader.
** A person coats the pages of ''The Big Book of Certain Doom with poison.
* '''Exploited''': Dracone wants to get rid of Bob and knows he never saw a book he didn't read, so he leaves ''The Big Book of Certain Doom'' on Bob's desk where he can see it.
* '''Defied''': ???
* '''Discussed''': ???
* '''Conversed''': ???
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