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Choose Your Own Misery

The Holidays

by Mike MacDonald
Jilly Gagnon
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"Bah! Humbug! An ideal choice for holiday haters and readers who enjoy David Sedaris's hysterically funny take, Holidays on Ice" (Library Journal).

From two alumni of The Onion, this is part of the hilarious series "for former Choose Your Own Adventure fans and devotees of dark, dark humor" (Publishers Weekly).

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.

"I played this book thirty times and the happiest ending I got was one where I got to eat turkey with a badly burned hand. Seems about right. Hilarious every time." —Ryan North, New York Times–bestselling author of Romeo And/Or Juliet

  • Creators

  • Series

    Choose Your Own Misery

  • Publisher

  • Release date

    September 1, 2018

  • Formats

    • OverDrive Read

      • ISBN: 9781682303184
      • File size: 933 KB

    • EPUB ebook

      • ISBN: 9781682303184
      • File size: 933 KB

  • Languages

    • English

  • Reviews

    • Publisher's Weekly

      November 16, 2015
      This riff on the popular “choose your own story line” books that were geared toward children opens with a situation that is much more adult: waking up with a roaring hangover and a buzzing alarm clock. It’s up to the reader to determine what’s next: to call in sick or soldier on and go in to the office. Scenarios include violently vomiting in a cab on the way to work and blaming the mess on a homeless person when they arrive at the office, carving out a growth on one’s back with a knife and attempting to cauterize it, confessing to a cocaine addiction, and many other awkward and uncomfortable circumstances—which can result in starting the adventure over from the beginning, attending an AA meeting, ending the workday serenely, or getting a promotion. Macdonald and Gagnon are comedy writers who’ve contributed to the Onion, but the humorous bits here are bleak and sparse. Notable more for its creative approach than its content, this will hold the most appeal for former Choose Your Own Adventure fans and devotees of dark, dark humor.

    • Library Journal

      October 15, 2016

      The former Onion writers who previously authored Choose Your Own Misery: The Office offer up a yuletide-themed parody of the beloved childhood favorite "Choose Your Own Adventure" stories, only this one is a raunchy grown-up version. You think you're about to have the perfect Christmas sans family as you escape to a tropical resort with a college buddy, but then Tropical Storm Menudo makes landfall and your flight is canceled. Your first decision comes when you call your new girlfriend Lindsi and she invites you to spend Christmas with her family. This is choose your own misery, so of course, all your decisions take you down a path of hilarious holiday hell. VERDICT Bah! Humbug! An ideal choice for holiday haters and readers who enjoy David Sedaris's hysterically funny take Holidays on Ice.

      Copyright 2016 Library Journal, LLC Used with permission.

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