VAST NARRATIVE (SERIES)
[Read at least one “entry”]
“Cthulu” Mythos series (Lovecraft)“Dr. Dolittle” series (Lofting)“Gor” series (Norman)“Hardy Boys” series (Dixon)“Jack Ryan” series (Clancey)“Nancy Drew” series (Keene)“Nero Wolfe” series (Stout)“Wizard of Oz” series (Baum)
“Yoknapatawpha County” series
(Faulkner)2001 / 2010 / 3001 (Clarke)American Letters (Grossman)Byzantium / “Celtic Crusades” Series orother (Lawhead)Dance to the Music of Time cycle (Powell)Dune series (Herbert)Finnegans Wake (Joyce)“
Fantômas
” series (Souvestre)Game of Thrones / “Song of Fire and Ice”series (Martin)Harry Potter series (Rowling)Hitchhiker’s Guide to the Galaxy (Adams)Martian Chronicles (Bradbury)Pilgrimage (Richardson)Princess of Mars or Tarzan series(Burroughs)Pulp Series“Star Wars”/”Star Trek”/ ”WoW”/etc. novel (any)Remembrance of Things Past (Proust)Wheel of Time (Jordan)Wicked series (Maguire)
DEPTH OF CONTEXT NOVEL
[Alsoresearch the context:]
Lamb: The Gospel According to Biff (Moore)33 A.D. (McAfee)Call of the Wild (London)Canticle for Leibowitz (Miller)Hobbit / Lord of the Rings
or other
(Tolkien) Joseph and His Brothers (Mann)Ulysses (Joyce)Princess Bride (Goldman)Bleeding Through – Layers of L.A. (Klein)
EPISODIC / COLLECTIVE / EPIC
[Any collection such as: ]
Thousand and One (Arabian)Nights (Burton Recommended) The Oddessy (Homer)Beowulf (Heaney Translation)Gulliver’s Travels (Swift)
The Surprising Adventures of BaronMunchausen (Raspe)Alice in Wonderland (Carroll)
Pilgrim’s Progress (Bunyan)Haunted or other title (Palahniuk)
SPECIAL REQUESTS CAN BECONSIDERED
MULTI-LINEAR (CYOA)[Reread and “track” 5-7times]
Big Night Out (Freeney)Meanwhile: Pick Any Path (Shiga)Whatever You Want (Timms) “The Adventures of You” seriesSugarcane Island“Choose Your own Adventure”(any)
“Date With Destiny” Adventures:
Escape from fire IslandNight of a ThousandBoyfriends“
Do-Over” Novels:
(McElhatton)Pretty Little MistakesMillion Little Mistakes
“Just Make a Choice”
Series(Powers) You Are a Miserable Excuse fora Hero! Terrible, Horrible, Temp-to-Perm Debacle
“Miss Adventure”
Series(Zuckerman) Tangle in TijuanaBeauty Queen Blowout
“Which Way Books”
(any)“Lone Wolf” Series (Dever)
ERGODIC (NON-LINEAR)[“Track” your process]
“The Night of January 16
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” (Rand)Ava: A Novel (Maso)Cathy’s Book (Stewart)Dictionary of the Khazars (Pavic)House of Leaves (Danielewski)Landscape Painted with Tea (Pavic)Last Love in Constantinople (Pavic) The Master’s Lonesome Wife (Gass)Naked Lunch (Burroughs)Slaughterhouse Five (Vonnegut) The Unfortunates (Johnson) This Book Does Not Exist (Schneider) Trainspotting (Welsh) Tristam Shandy, Gentleman (Sterne)
INTERACTIVE STORY [Complete 1-2 times]
“Heavy Rain” (PS3)“Indigo Prophecy” (PS2)“Twelve Blue” (Joyce)“The Stanley Parable”(http://www.moddb.com/mods/the-stanley-parable)
Hypertext:eastgate.com/catalog/fiction.html
(any)eastgate.com/catalog/nonfiction.html(any)
Interactive Fiction (Genre)
(http://jerz.setonhill.edu/if/gallery/)“Colossal Cave Adventure”(Crowther/Woods)“Fine-Tuned” (Dionysus Porcupine)“Galatea” (Short)Infocom IF (http://www.infocom-if.org/games/games.html)“Metamorphoses” (Short)“Slouching Towards Bedlam”(Foster/Ravipinto)“Zork”
(http://www.infocom-if.org/downloads/downloads.html)
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