DONNY DARKO IS A FUCKING RIP OFF

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40. The Great Easter Bunny Adventure
Author: Edward Packard
Illustrator: Vincent Bell
First Published: April, 1987
ISBN: 0-553-15492-3
Length: 53 pages
Number of Endings: 9
Plot Summary: On Easter you follow a talking bunny and somehow travel through time in the process.
My Thoughts: This is definitely a weird one... Perhaps there's some sort of message hidden in here... Or maybe it's just a children's introduction to surrealism.

http://www.gamebooks.org/gallery/cjr40.jpg

― Lil' Fancy Kpants (The K is Silent) (ex machina), Sunday, 11 April 2004 22:20 (twenty-two years ago)

I'd just like to give a shout-out to Choose Your Own Adventure Book 8: Hyperspace by Edward Packard. That book blew my mind.

― Anthony Miccio (Anthony Miccio), Sunday, 11 April 2004 22:23 (twenty-two years ago)

I wanna use the cover one of the weird ones with a crazy image montage as art for a 7" or something.

― Lil' Fancy Kpants (The K is Silent) (ex machina), Sunday, 11 April 2004 22:25 (twenty-two years ago)

woops, turns out Hyperspace was #21. My bad!

― Anthony Miccio (Anthony Miccio), Sunday, 11 April 2004 22:27 (twenty-two years ago)

Liar.

― dean! (deangulberry), Sunday, 11 April 2004 22:28 (twenty-two years ago)

The Time Cave. And Return to the Time Cave.

In one of those, the reader gets called out as someone who was born in the early 1970's. I remember reading that and thinking, Wow, this book will still work when I'm forty!

― Pleasant Plains (Pleasant Plains), Monday, 12 April 2004 02:12 (twenty-two years ago)

Was Hyperspace the one with the hyperlaser thing?

― caitlin (caitlin), Monday, 12 April 2004 08:08 (twenty-two years ago)

only vaguely related, via memories of (U.S.) school book fairs, but does anyone remember an author daniel cohen or something? wrote about UFOs, ghosts, spontaneous combustion, etc. they sold this shit in my school, right alongside these things and madlibs et al

― duke astonish, Monday, 12 April 2004 09:19 (twenty-two years ago)

BAHAHA

oh hell yeah. Daniel Cohen made his fortune selling those things to middle-schoolers.

― Kingfish Balzac (Kingfish), Monday, 12 April 2004 12:55 (twenty-two years ago)

I had a book of his, Great Ghosts, when I was in elementary school.

― latebloomer (latebloomer), Monday, 12 April 2004 12:57 (twenty-two years ago)

Choose Your Own Adventure & Bunnicula (& Marvel Comics) (& afternoon cartoons) was all I had to get me through elementary & middle school. Props to CYOA #s 15 and 25!

― David R. (popshots75`), Monday, 12 April 2004 13:24 (twenty-two years ago)

i think i still have a copy of cohen's curses, hexes, & spells at my parents' house. it's the kind of thing that i would read in the library at school, then i'd get terrified at night at bed time.

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i made a little clay model of bunnicula as part of a book report. i think it's also still around somewhere at my parents' house, probably in the same box with the cohen book.

― lauren (laurenp), Monday, 12 April 2004 13:30 (twenty-two years ago)

I need to ebay a Choose yr own Adventure lot, man.

They should make adult versions w/whores and drugs and shit.

― christhamrin (christhamrin), Monday, 12 April 2004 14:58 (twenty-two years ago)

Chris, that's what Grand Theft Auto is for!

Also a shout out to _The Celery Stalks at Midnight_!

― David R. (popshots75`), Monday, 12 April 2004 15:25 (twenty-two years ago)

The image site has a page dedicated to Fighting Fantasy!

A wonderful sentence, on Deathtrap Dungeon:

"In any case, the dungeon presented here is quite a memorable one -- there are few Fighting Fantasy fans who don't have a certain fondness for Baron Sukumvit's unforgettable trap-filled creation."

― Chuck Tatum (Chuck Tatum), Monday, 12 April 2004 19:15 (twenty-two years ago)

http://www.gamebooks.org/gallery/figfan04.jpg

― Chuck Tatum (Chuck Tatum), Monday, 12 April 2004 19:17 (twenty-two years ago)

beware the half-shirt of the future.

― Kingfish Balzac (Kingfish), Monday, 12 April 2004 19:18 (twenty-two years ago)

Maybe I'm missing something, but does the foreground figure have a stubby arm, and the midground figure no legs?

― Chuck Tatum (Chuck Tatum), Monday, 12 April 2004 19:26 (twenty-two years ago)

That is totally the next Scissor Sisters album cover.

That site OTM about Deathtrap Dungeon.

― Andrew Farrell (afarrell), Monday, 12 April 2004 19:26 (twenty-two years ago)

he has legs, just a REALLLY long torso.

― Kingfish Balzac (Kingfish), Monday, 12 April 2004 19:27 (twenty-two years ago)

I remember looking at the cover as a wee 'un and thinking "He's in a sticky situation, but he's still doing all right OW OW SCALPEL FINGERNAIL"

― Andrew Farrell (afarrell), Monday, 12 April 2004 19:29 (twenty-two years ago)

BUNNICULA!!!! And what were the other ones in that series called again?? I loved those.

― Tim Finney (Tim Finney), Tuesday, 13 April 2004 04:05 (twenty-two years ago)

This thread isn't about what I thought it was going to be about, but I'm going to tell you anyway that I bought Donnie Darko on DVD for £4.97 from Asda at the weekend and therefore it is not a fucking rip off (in that sense).

― Madchen (Madchen), Tuesday, 13 April 2004 10:51 (twenty-two years ago)

The Celery Stalks At Midnight was one.

― Mr Noodles (Mr Noodles), Tuesday, 13 April 2004 10:55 (twenty-two years ago)

It's always the difficult 2nd book that's forgotten. Bunnicula was #1, duh. Celery was #3. I think G00gle's telling me Howliday Inn was #2, which is disappointing.

― David R. (popshots75`), Tuesday, 13 April 2004 11:19 (twenty-two years ago)

It would've been cooler if #2 had been, for instance, Dr. Zhivagoo.

― David R. (popshots75`), Tuesday, 13 April 2004 11:19 (twenty-two years ago)

I seem to remember a Nighty Nightmare too. #4?

― Vinnie (vprabhu), Tuesday, 13 April 2004 13:33 (twenty-two years ago)

Howliday Inn sounds right. That was actually the first one I read. I remember the cat telling the dog at the beginning that going to pet boarding school involved being staked to a board.

These must have been close to the last explicitly kiddish books I read for enjoyment purposes, funnily enough.

― Tim Finney (Tim Finney), Tuesday, 13 April 2004 22:15 (twenty-two years ago)

yeah, i went from daniel cohen straight to proust
now i'm going back

― duke salute, Tuesday, 13 April 2004 22:32 (twenty-two years ago)

The guy who wrote Bunnicula wrote something called The Hospital Book which my great uncle did the pictures for. I think they had a falling out though.

Oh, there's a picture of me age 4 in The Hospital Book.

So all thru elementary school I felt like I OWNED Bunnicula. Much like now I guess.

― Aaron W (Aaron W), Tuesday, 13 April 2004 22:36 (twenty-two years ago)

Aaron, I loved the Hospital Book! Wow, I wonder if my old library still has a copy of it.

― tokyo rosemary (rosemary), Tuesday, 13 April 2004 23:27 (twenty-two years ago)

these were my faves: http://www.gamebooks.org/spylist.htm

― Sterling Clover (s_clover), Wednesday, 14 April 2004 04:37 (twenty-two years ago)

nfw! you can be the stainless steel rat:

http://www.gamebooks.org/stain.htm

harry harrison was the shit when I was like 12.

― Sterling Clover (s_clover), Wednesday, 14 April 2004 04:46 (twenty-two years ago)

these were great too:
http://www.gamebooks.org/timelist.htm

― Sterling Clover (s_clover), Wednesday, 14 April 2004 04:47 (twenty-two years ago)

Aaron, I loved the Hospital Book! Wow, I wonder if my old library still has a copy of it.

That's funny! Yeah, I'm on page 32 or so. I totally forgot about it until Bunnicula got mentioned.

― Aaron W (Aaron W), Wednesday, 14 April 2004 15:19 (twenty-two years ago)

yaaay! Time Machine! I had the first 12-14 or so, then didn't get any more until the mid 20's in the series.

also, check out who did the art of those books. Lots os Marvel/DC guys, even a few Vertigo dudes.

― Kingfish Balzac (Kingfish), Wednesday, 14 April 2004 15:32 (twenty-two years ago)

OMG, my library has it!! I am going to look up your picture next time I'm there.

― tokyo rosemary (rosemary), Wednesday, 14 April 2004 17:45 (twenty-two years ago)

Yay, thanks Sterling! Finally seeing Emmanuel Ringelblum's milkcans at the Holocaust Museum last year was great; I really did feel like 10 year old me helped find them!

― c. (synkro), Wednesday, 14 April 2004 17:50 (twenty-two years ago)

rrrrrRRRRRRRREEEEEEEEEOOOOOOOOOOOWWWWW!!!C'MON GUYS!!!Donnie Darko's a rip off!!!!WHAMMY BAR!!!SLAP BASS SOLO!!!

― zenome kistachion, Thursday, 15 April 2004 01:43 (twenty-two years ago)

No, the song that comes to mind for me is Crass' "Oi is just a rip-off"

― mark grout (mark grout), Thursday, 15 April 2004 07:06 (twenty-two years ago)

four years pass...

http://images.somethingawful.com/mjolnir/images/cg04052005/CosmoDNA1.jpg

― kenan, Sunday, 27 July 2008 17:46 (seventeen years ago)

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