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19030535 No.19030535 [Reply] [Original]

Any good books featuring episodic story telling?
Like a set of the same characters going on various unrelated adventures.
I can think of books in a series where each book is a different scenario but I'm looking for an example of a single book with different unconnected stories with the same character(s)

>> No.19030670

usually if there is no connection between the adventures, it doesn't get published as a book. so you're looking for story collections with recurring characters. stuff like pg woodehouse or chandler's stories.

if you're tolerant of some loose connectivity your options open up because there was a wave of these story cycle type books recently. ghostwritten, trainspotting, visit from the goon squad

then there's old shit with grouped stories but the characters are generic. i.e. the decameron

>> No.19030683

they're called picaresques. Don Quixote and The History of Tom Jones should be at the top of your list.

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>>19030670
looked up woodehouse, read it as 'The cucking of Cuthbert'

>> No.19030906

Tom Sawyer

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>>19030535

>> No.19030948

>>19030915
class

>> No.19030976

>>19030535
Not quite sure I can guarantee them being completely unrelated, but the different narrative branches in Bolaño's books usually are at least superficially independent. Try Savage Detectives

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19031007

the kreisler (frame) stories by eta hoffmann

>> No.19031063

>>19030535
You might like V.

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>>19030535
This invented episodic stories and mini detours in plot for mini episodes

>> No.19032002

Not completely disconnected stories, but The Hobbit had a very episodic pace to it

>> No.19032029

>>19031738
And I curse it every day for it, right before my second prayers towards mecca.

>> No.19032061

You basically summed up what the Horror’s Call book from here are. They’re interesting in that they have some of the same sets of characters. But the books are all separate stories.

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>>19030535
The Last Wish does that, if you're into the Witcher.

>> No.19033331

>>19030535

The adventures of Dennis, some books of the Alisa Seleznova series, Karlsson-on-the-Roof books, Pippi Longstocking books, the Bible.

>> No.19033478

>>19030535
The Witcher-books

>> No.19034674

>>19030535
"Carnacki, the Ghost-Finder" by William Hope Hodgson.