Lethe Bashar’s Novel of Life is a work of fictional autobiography. The main character, Lethe, is the author’s self-proclaimed alter ego and former adolescent self. On three different weblogs, spanning 25 years, the reader is encouraged to read the text from any point in time and proceed in any direction. Lethe in Spain follows Lethe’s adventures living abroad—at first . . .
An Interactive/Cross-media Novel Can you help Arie discover happiness by Labor Day? Will she find adventure? Will she find romance? Will she find the smiles her life has been missing? Arie has a Greyhound Discover Pass and an entire summer to explore the country. She’s asking her readers to play spin the compass and point her toward the places . . .
This novel describes an epic journey from Embankment station, to the Elephant and Castle. There are seven carriages on a Bakerloo Line train, each with 36 seats. A train in which every passenger has a seat will carry 252 people. With the driver, that makes 253. . . .
The Adventures of Bob Collins is a tragic and comic fictionalized chronicling of my life. Volume 1 is a love story about how I met, dated, and married my wife, Janice, the whore. Don’t let the fact that I killed her stop you from enjoying the beauty of our relationship before it ended so violently. . . .
Joel was just a regular ol’ park ranger, minding his own business when Yukihiro, a recently retired assassin for a Tokyo yakuza family, burst through a window and into his life. Now, he’s trapped quite figuratively in a web of deceit and danger that goes beyond the usual ‘hilarious misunderstanding’ and driven straight to ‘running away for dear life’. . . .
Lethe Bashar’s Novel of Life is an interlinked trio of webnovels about the life of the title character, Lethe Bashar—a self-deceiving, self-hating, and wholly messed-up young man who expects far more of himself than he is willing to put in the effort to obtain. Each piece is markedly different from the others, in terms of narrative focus, characterization, and even [more . . .]
I have no idea how I’m going to justify giving this story four stars in this review.
I pride myself on my literary background and the time I put into analyzing stories. I try to set aside personal feelings and look at a story’s plot and logic and premise when reviewing, [more . . .]