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May 4, 2012 9:13 AM
NameThatKid'sBookFilter, Take 20,896: trying to recall the name of an unusually funny choose-your-own-adventure-type book I read back in the proverbial day. Here's all the info I can recall:
- I read it back in the 80's or early 90's, but it's likely that I inherited it from an older cousin, so it could predate that era.
- It was a choose-your-own-adventure-style book, but I do NOT believe it was part of the formal "Choose Your Own Adventure" series.
- It was far funnier and more irreverent than most CYOA books.
- It had a futuristic/sci-fi theme: your character was trying to survive on a hostile alien planet. One of the running jokes was how EVERYTHING on the planet would kill you.
- The only lethal beast whose name I can recall was a "poisonous glamp". At one point, you find a fruit or vegetable and have the option of rubbing it on the glamp, or giving it to the glamp to eat.
- I seem to recall that there were also giant zebra-like creatures whose meat was (naturally) poisonous to eat.
- The cover MAY have been black and red. On the other hand, I may be thinking of the "ZORK" CYOA books (which this wasn't).
Thanks in advance, oh glorious HiveMind!
- I read it back in the 80's or early 90's, but it's likely that I inherited it from an older cousin, so it could predate that era.
- It was a choose-your-own-adventure-style book, but I do NOT believe it was part of the formal "Choose Your Own Adventure" series.
- It was far funnier and more irreverent than most CYOA books.
- It had a futuristic/sci-fi theme: your character was trying to survive on a hostile alien planet. One of the running jokes was how EVERYTHING on the planet would kill you.
- The only lethal beast whose name I can recall was a "poisonous glamp". At one point, you find a fruit or vegetable and have the option of rubbing it on the glamp, or giving it to the glamp to eat.
- I seem to recall that there were also giant zebra-like creatures whose meat was (naturally) poisonous to eat.
- The cover MAY have been black and red. On the other hand, I may be thinking of the "ZORK" CYOA books (which this wasn't).
Thanks in advance, oh glorious HiveMind!
OH SWEET BLEEDING HARKIAN GLAMP, that was fast! THANK YOU!!!
posted by julthumbscrew at 9:23 AM on May 4, 2012
posted by julthumbscrew at 9:23 AM on May 4, 2012
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posted by logicpunk at 9:19 AM on May 4, 2012