Latest Visual Novels and Blog Posts
JAN 14, 2026
Prose Roundup: Rabbit, Run (1960) by John Updike
JAN 11, 2026
John, John, John, and now: John
JAN 10, 2026
The Thirty-Nine Steps (1915) by John Buchan
Read The Thirty-Nine Steps: The Visual Novel (40,809 words)
The Thirty-Nine Steps is a book that really gets you revved up for killing those damn krauts. And if you get to complaining about the book's sloppy prose or nonsensical plotting, it's probably just because you're one of those damn krauts yourself.
(This blurb may be unhelpful, but at least it doesn't contain major spoilers like all the others do.)
See the JohnQPulp/TheThirtyNineSteps Github repository for offline downloading and issue reporting.
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JAN 01, 2026
Cup of Gold: A Life of Sir Henry Morgan, Buccaneer, with Occasional Reference to History (1929) by John Steinbeck
Read Cup of Gold: The Visual Novel (69,906 words)
Cup of Gold is a novel obviously written by a first-time author. Less obviously, it's also written by John Steinbeck. The book's no Of Mice and Men or Grapes of Wrath or East of Eden, though it's not terrible per se. It's just… what a strange first premise for an author like Steinbeck: a heavily fictionalized retelling of the 17th-century pirate Captain Morgan, now better known as a rum logo than a historical figure.
But, seeing as how none of Steinbeck's better works are in the public domain yet…
See the JohnQPulp/CupOfGold Github repository for offline downloading and issue reporting.
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