Public Domain Pulp

Read The Great Gatsby: The Visual Novel (49,116 words)

In visual novel form, it's almost like the sober examination of the unrestrained materialism and absent moral center of the Roaring Twenties jumps right out at you!

(I haven't actually seen the 2013 adaptation referenced by that Norm bit, but apparently Nick was played by Spider-Man.)

Leave it to Scott to take all the fun out of a reclusive yet rich and mysteriously well-connected man inviting hordes of other rich and powerful men to "party" with "young women" at his private estate on an island.

See the JohnQPulp/TheGreatGatsby Github repository for offline downloading and issue reporting.

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Read Dr. Jekyll and Mr. Hyde: The Visual Novel (25,770 words)

More than any other book, blurb authors need to settle down with this one when it comes to including massive up-front spoilers. You can say the book has gothic and mystery elements without completely giving away that very mystery.

I just expect more from Standard Ebooks, is all. (Goodreads has the same problem, but I don't expect much from them.)

Evil Robert Louis Stevenson says: do murders, give into lust, and spoil books in book blurbs.

See the JohnQPulp/DrJekyllAndMrHyde Github repository for offline downloading and issue reporting.

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Read The Sun Also Rises: The Visual Novel (67,873 words)

The Sun Also Rises is an iceberg narrative about an iceberg generation of expatriate icebergs. Their iceberg motions mask tectonic iceberg collisions between submerged iceberg masculinity and drifting icebergs.

The dialogue is pure iceberg: iceberg chunks floating in titanic seas of icy icebergs. Submerged icebergs below icebergs conceal iceberg meanings of iceberg icebergs. The icebergs are icebergs. Icebergs iceberg icebergs.

God damn you, Hemingway. How is it possible to write a 70k word book where nothing happens?

Everyone involved in this story should die.

See the JohnQPulp/TheSunAlsoRises Github repository for offline downloading and issue reporting.

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Read Pudd’nhead Wilson: The Visual Novel (52,860 words)

This book has just about the funniest antagonist I've ever seen in print. But I mean, it's by Mark Twain. Of course it's funny.

It's the third visual novel of Public Domain Pulp, and the first good one. Read it!

See the JohnQPulp/PuddnheadWilson Github repository for offline downloading and issue reporting.

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Read The Thirty-Nine Steps: The Visual Novel (41,082 words)

The Thirty-Nine Steps is a historical thriller. "Historical" in the sense that it's set one year before the year it was published, which is more consequential than it sounds, arguably the more interesting aspect of the book than its "thriller" plotting.

It's a thoroughly readable book.

This book 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.

See the JohnQPulp/TheThirtyNineSteps Github repository for offline downloading and issue reporting.

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Read Cup of Gold: The Visual Novel (69,414 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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