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Choose Your Own Misery
Choose Your Own Misery
Series · 3 books · 2016-2018
By
Mike MacDonald
Books in series
#1
The Office
2016
This is an ACE for ISBN13:9781626819245 The Office Adventure A comic choose-your-own-path novel for adults. Play as a miserable, hungover office worker just trying to zombie through another awful day at work. Should you show up for the big meeting or duck out with Debby, the weird woman from HR who keeps making suggestive comments about FDR? Play the fatty lump in your back for office-wide sympathy, or dive into a WebMD spiral that can only end in “cancer?” Tell someone about the weird genital-fondling that’s happening at the crystal healer’s, or just accept that this is the best substitution you’ll find for love, today...or maybe ever? In CYOM: TOA, you have countless “options,” but they rarely end well. It’s okay, though. A life of adventure would require so many uncomfortable sleeping situations. Besides, you have dental. Keep reminding yourself about the dental.
#2
The Holidays
2016
From "The Onion" alum writers Mike MacDonald and Jilly Gagnon comes a hilarious choose-your-own-path story to ruin your holiday spirit. This is the year you re going to do it: you re going to avoid Christmas completely! ...or you were, until your island getaway got washed out by a hurricane. Now you have to choose: should you spend the holiday with your shrewish sister and her Europhile husband, or endure your new girlfriend s family for a week? Help chop down a tree even though it might throw out your back, or endure the icy judgment of a woman who thinks only children and pussies help bake cookies? Jet off to the glamorous slums of Kingston, Jamaica, or accept the offer of a ride from a man who never stops smiling...and is probably going to turn you into a skin suit? From the writers who brought you the hilarious parody "Choose Your Own Misery: The Office" comes a second helping of misery with a festive twist. Christmas is full of fun surprises for kids, but for adults, it s just an endless series of aggressive crowds, overwhelming credit card debt, and pretending to like the people you re forced to spend it with. Once you unwrap all the holiday misery hiding in these pages, the blackness of your heart will rival any lump of coal."
#3
Dating
2018
From The Onion alum writers Mike MacDonald and Jilly Gagnon comes a hilarious choose-your-own-path story to that will save you hours of suffering on Tinder. The only thing worse than getting back on the dating horse? The brutal loneliness of perpetual singledom. That's why you're putting in the effort to find your soulmate…or at least someone to warm your bed for a night. Playing as one of two characters, you get to choose just how bad your dating life gets. Will you head to a high school party or hitch your wagon to a Steve Urkel impersonator? Dabble in the painfully shallow depths of sexualizing your arm wound, or up the intensity of your first date by entering an underground fight club? Try to relive the romance of Harold and Maude, but with more roofies and an ominous burial plot in Maude's backyard? From the writers who brought you the hilarious parodies Choose Your Own The Office and Choose Your Own The Holidays comes the oldest form of misery in the the self-prostitution that is dating. "Oh, how I laughed at this droll little book. Then, slowly but irreversibly, it filled me up with dread." ―Jesse Andrews, New York Times bestselling author of Me and Earl and the Dying Girl
Author
Mike MacDonald
Author · 2 books