The Unknown is a massive collaborative hypertext novel. The premise of the novel is that three people are doing a book tour across the United States while writing their novels. The story seems to challenge what people consider literature. People traditionally think of literature as written works and disregard digital literature. However, this hypertext takes an interesting approach to this debate. This hypertext has many different ways to read the story. There are six different links and six colored squares to click on. Each of these links brings you to different parts of the story. One way is a map of the country. Clicking on different points on the map will allow you to read part of the story in that location. Another way to read the story is by clicking on the “people” link. This one brings you to a massive list of different people in the story. The hypertext also has many different types of media, from videos to pictures. This hypertext is probably the biggest we have looked at in this class. However, this makes The Unknown hard to understand: there are so many options to choose, so many characters, and so much content it is overwhelming to me. The lack of guidance and direction is nothing new in the world of hypertext, but the amount of content within this hypertext is unique. In other hypertext it is easier to find the story because there are fewer options, but in this one I kept finding new pages. For me the hypertext had too much content: understanding the story and knowing all the characters was difficult. Normal it is easy to figure out the story of a hypertext, but with this one it took much more effort. To completely understand this work would take weeks and keeping track of what you have already seen would be annoying.