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― paolo, Friday, 14 November 2014 22:54 (nine years ago) link
our own mortality in the pages of this book ought to be sending your insurance premiums inching higher. Here are some of the highlights: You, Ricardo and Lisa get blown away by prospectors in a hail of rifle fire. (p. 44) A prospector fatally cauterizes you with a red-hot iron. (Ouch!) (p. 47) You get splattered with spectral blood from a knife murder that occurs right in front of you, and presumably burned to death. Complete with illustration! (p. 68) “It looks as if your only choice is the way you will die.” (p. 75) “Searchers don’t find your bodies for a month.” (p. 79) “The sound of you hitting the road is loud in the quiet night.” (p. 93)And, my absolute favorite, also with an illustration: “Then the silence is broken by your screams as knives appear out of nowhere and bury themselves in your backs.” (p. 71)Even this isn’t the worst of it. I think what really pushed this book over the top was page 51, where you see an Indian warrior carrying a decapitated head by its hair, with blood dripping down his back. The illustration on the facing page–yes, you see everything–is especially horrifying.
You, Ricardo and Lisa get blown away by prospectors in a hail of rifle fire. (p. 44) A prospector fatally cauterizes you with a red-hot iron. (Ouch!) (p. 47) You get splattered with spectral blood from a knife murder that occurs right in front of you, and presumably burned to death. Complete with illustration! (p. 68) “It looks as if your only choice is the way you will die.” (p. 75) “Searchers don’t find your bodies for a month.” (p. 79) “The sound of you hitting the road is loud in the quiet night.” (p. 93)
And, my absolute favorite, also with an illustration:
“Then the silence is broken by your screams as knives appear out of nowhere and bury themselves in your backs.” (p. 71)
Even this isn’t the worst of it. I think what really pushed this book over the top was page 51, where you see an Indian warrior carrying a decapitated head by its hair, with blood dripping down his back. The illustration on the facing page–yes, you see everything–is especially horrifying.
http://seanmunger.com/2013/09/10/retro-book-review-the-horror-of-high-ridge-choose-your-own-adventure/
― paolo, Friday, 14 November 2014 22:57 (nine years ago) link
Just staying in on a Friday night, googling books from when I was in primary school
― paolo, Friday, 14 November 2014 22:59 (nine years ago) link