This week Daniel brought in J.J Abrams novel (not sure if it is really?) called S. We were working on our final projects and I’m fascinated with the idea of creating a diary/scrapbook for someone, where all the pieces fit together like a jigsaw puzzle. That is pretty much what “S” is. There are a few stories overlapping as people converse through graffiti in a library book. Every little detail of the book was so fascinating down to the time stamps on the back cover. This book is a whole new genre of stories that acts a lot more like a database than an actual novel. It has a collection of news articles, hand written letters and notes, post cards, compasses and so much more to guide the audience through a story. And because of all it’s different interactive parts the books remains nonlinear. For instance I opened the book to a random page with a note sticking out and read it. The book feels like you don’t have to go through it chronologically to understand what is going on. And even if you do, do you read the typed text or graffiti text first? How can the author control that? I hope this is the future of stories because I think it’s a lot more fun trying to piece things together than being spoon fed sequential events.