Story support techniques?

[Carl-johan]

I suspect that many S&L fans like me, prefer the somewhat twisted, non-simplistic novels, but these have the problem that they may require both one and two reads before they sink in properly. It's simply too tricky to immediately connect characters with their motives, and when you have a hunch of what happened a few pages back, you don't go back and check it, especially if it's an audio book.

I've been looking for and considering doing my own sort of story enhancing visualization like that, starting from something like this awesome strip illustrates:

http://xkcd.com/657/

Seriously, to have such an enhancement to stories like The Illuminatus trilogy, anything by Chuck Palahniuk, Neal Stephenson or The Hyperion Cantos would be absolutely invaluable! Dynamically growing like a mind map with the information you have received (by your progress through the book).

I've made my own feeble experiments in the topic here, but would gladly accept any comments or suggestions for how to achieve something in that direction! : github.com/UncleCJ/semanticstories

[Skip]

The one for the Wheel of Time would take up a lot of space.

[Carl-johan]

The space necessary is clearly a secondary issue IMHO. A world map at reasonable resolution takes up a lot of space as well :-)

[Tamahome]

has a ton of pictures.

[Carl-johan]

@Tamahome This type of illustrations I am asking for you mean?