Synopses & Reviews
You have endless choices...but few real options.
Hungover and stuck at a job you hate, will you show up for your big presentation, or duck out with Debby, the HR rep with an FDR fetish? Play the weird lump on your back for office-wide sympathy, or dive into an internet spiral that can only end in "ten kinds of cancer"? Tell someone about the weird genital-fondling that's happening at the crystal healer's, or just accept that this is the best substitute you'll find for love, today...or maybe ever?
From two comedy writers and former contributors to THE ONION comes a modern choose-your-own-adventure tale―the story of your soul-crushing existence. Choosing your own adventure is great when you're a kid, but in the adult world, the only options are endless varieties of misery. 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.
Review
"Sorry, I've been spending every waking hour lost in your maddening madcap narrative labyrinth. I'll try to send a blurb for the book by the deadline!"--Jamie Brew, Associate Editor at Clickhole
Review
"Hell, the only reason for going to work is to goof-off reading Jilly Gagnon's and Mike MacDonald's book, Choose Your Own Misery: The Office Adventure!" --E. Jean Caroll, Emmy Award-nominated former SNL writer and legendary writer for Elle Magazine
Synopsis
Two writers for The Onion have written a choose your own adventure novel strictly for adults.
Synopsis
Two former contributors to The Onion have written a parody of one of childhood's favorite series-strictly for adults.
Synopsis
Two former contributors to The Onion have written a Choose-Your-Own-Adventure novel strictly for adults.
About the Author
Mike MacDonald and Jilly Gagnon have been writing comedy together for many years. Mike has worked for The Onion, founded his own Canadian satirical site, The Smew, and has been a journalist in Toronto and internationally. Additionally, he has written and produced sketch comedy television shows with one of the largest networks in Canada.Jilly has contributed to Newsweek, McSweeney's Internet Tendency, Vanity Fair, The Huffington Post, The Onion, and regularly in Boston's Weekly Dig, where she's a columnist. As the writer for a safari company, Jilly dreams of exotic adventures and high drama. Mostly it's full of counting down the minutes until the next coffee break. Underworked but still unable to leave before the stroke of 5:30, Jilly is well-versed in the inanities that make up much of office life. And she's always hoping no one's really paying attention to her computer screen, where she's working on documenting her own misery for "adventure" stories.