Visual Novel Catalog (8)

Read The Secret Garden: The Visual Novel (81,484 words)

Whether you're a fan of secrets, gardens, secret gardens, or Theosophy, this book has you covered. It's a delightful read! (And just look at that cute robin.)

In Burnett's original draft of the novel, the plot focused on a sweet little girl steadily being driven sour and sickly by a swooping red-winged blackbird — those spotted idiots that don't ever shut the hell up when I'm trying to edit these visual novels.

But eventually that plot was tweaked slightly, and the rest is history.

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

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Read The Mysterious Affair at Styles: The Visual Novel (57,638 words)

It's book #1 in the Poirot series, out of… 35. (Or more, if you include the short stories.)

Christie had a long writing career, but that's just all the more of literature's greatest Belgian for us to enjoy.

This visual novel is the second greatest work in the Poirot-adaptation canon, behind only Murder By Death and its James Coco.

One day the site will have visual novels for each of that film's five detectives, plus In Cold Blood or something for Capote. That'll be a good collection.

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

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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! (Norm link)

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)

A message to other literary websites: stop spoiling books in the very first lines of your blurbs. Say the book has gothic and mystery elements, yes. But don't give away the actual mystery!

(I suggest not clicking on any of the below links.)

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.

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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 put to print. But I mean, it's by Mark Twain. Of course it's funny. Read it!

Twain, it's a funny bit creating a single mega-sentence with two colons, two em dashes, five semicolons, and ten commas. But you do make it difficult to format your words into visual novel form.

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…

I'll say this, Steinbeck. This book was at least less boring than In Dubious Battle. But still: do better.

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