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You Are a Miserable Excuse for a Hero!
You Are a Miserable Excuse for a Hero!: Book One in the Just Make a Choice! Series | Bob Powers
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Why Do All the Nice Girls End Up Getting Kidnapped and Held for Ransom? In this book, YOU, the reader, are a thirtysomething part-time actor/full-time waiter suddenly caught up in a kidnapping. Julia, the girl you went out with last night, has been TAKEN HOSTAGE. What will you do? Will you go to the police and ask for help? Will you burst into the hideout, killing everyone in sight, then tell Julia that she shouldn't misinterpret this as some sort of big commitment? Or will you unplug your phone and just get really, really drunk? The choice is yours! You awake to the sound of the phone ringing. "Hello?" You hear a man's voice. It is muffled. "We've got Julia." "Wait, what do you mean?" "We have kidnapped your girlfriend. If you ever want to see her again---" "Whoa, she's not my girlfriend," you say. "I just met her. I mean, I had a good time with her and all, but I wanna take it slow with this one, I think." "We understand," the voice says. "But she's new to the city, and presently, you're all she has. Give us fifty thousand dollars by tomorrow or we'll blow her head off." If you want to go and ask your parents if you can borrow fifty thousand dollars, go to page 173. If you want to have sex with your ex-girlfriend, consider getting back together with her, then think better of it, go to page 183. BE VERY CAREFUL! You're directing the story and the CHOICES you make can result in MURDER, GRADUATE SCHOOL ENROLLMENT, TORTURE, MARRIAGE, POST-APOCALYPTIC SLAVERY, UNWANTED PREGNANCY, even TEMPING! It's YOUR STORY and YOUR LIFE. All you've got to do is decide which page you want to turn to. JUST MAKE A CHOICE!
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SleepyDragon
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Mehso-so

Okay, probably not the highest quality of writing I've ever read, but it was fun to read a choose your own adventure with adult content. In addition to this one, I've also read a romance novel and an autobiography written as a CYOA. I also have a couple games based on CYOA novels. It's a GenX thing.

#Alphabetgame #LetterY

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keithmalek
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Seems like good advice.

Suet624 Gah! 5y
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keithmalek
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Pickpick

A Choose Your Own Adventure-style novel for adults, written by Bob Powers, a man who is most likely the funniest humor writer on the planet. This book is so much fun! Read it!

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SleepyDragon
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Book: You Are a Miserable Excuse for a Hero
Author: Yeats, William Butler
Movie: Yellow Submarine
TV Show: Young Riders
Food: Yakisoba

#manicmonday #letterY @JoScho

JoScho 💜💜💜 6y
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SleepyDragon
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Mehso-so

Meh. Kind of fun for sophomoric humor. It was fun to read the "choice" format again. Flip a coin and flip a page ...