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Escape from Fire Island!
Can you save fire island before it’s too late?
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It was supposed to be a nice, relaxing weekend—with a little swimming, a lot of cocktails, and more hot bods than a year’s subscription to Men’s Health magazine. But when a vat of radioactive waste washes onto the beach, strange things start happening—and now an army of zombie drag queens is storming the coast! Can you save Fire Island before it’s too late? Or will you perish at the hands of a thousand shrieking divas? It all depends on the choices YOU make.
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If you run toward the nearest ferry terminal, turn to page 44. If you flirt with the cute twink, turn to page 55. If you throw caution to the wind and join the nearest circuit party, turn to page 80.
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What happens next? That depends on YOU! How does the story end? Only YOU can find out! Best of all, you can read this book again and again until you’ve had 29 amazing adventures!
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It was supposed to be a nice, relaxing weekend—with a little swimming, a lot of cocktails, and more hot bods than a year’s subscription to Men’s Health magazine. But when a vat of radioactive waste washes onto the beach, strange things start happening—and now an army of zombie drag queens is storming the coast! Can you save Fire Island before it’s too late? Or will you perish at the hands of a thousand shrieking divas? It all depends on the choices YOU make.
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If you run toward the nearest ferry terminal, turn to page 44. If you flirt with the cute twink, turn to page 55. If you throw caution to the wind and join the nearest circuit party, turn to page 80.
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What happens next? That depends on YOU! How does the story end? Only YOU can find out! Best of all, you can read this book again and again until you’ve had 29 amazing adventures!
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144 pages, Mass Market Paperback
First published February 1, 2003
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September 6, 2017
When I found this LGBT choose-your-own-adventure in a bookshop, I immediately had to have it! This summer, I ended up bringing it along to a beach trip and read it aloud with friends. As hoped, it really is a lot of fun to return to this childhood technique, and I enjoyed it a lot. However, I have a problem with the use of "tranny" in the book - I even double-checked the date of publication (FYI, the edition is smartly made to look more retro) and couldn't believe it was published in 2003. I just can't get over the idiotic use of the slur. It's a prime example of intra-community insensitivity that really annoys me, and, more importantly, drives wedges between the LGBT+ community.
December 29, 2014
It appears I wrote some review for this a while back, but it made no sense. I'm trying to figure out how it seems like I was very, very drunk when I wrote my review, but it was well after I quit drinking?
uhhh...
anyway.
This book is tops! (or power bottom, if you prefer).
I am in love with all things CYOA style, but this book is super hilarious and charming.
Stop reading my rubbish reviews, and go read this book.
uhhh...
anyway.
This book is tops! (or power bottom, if you prefer).
I am in love with all things CYOA style, but this book is super hilarious and charming.
Stop reading my rubbish reviews, and go read this book.
September 23, 2012
I loved it, but then again I wrote it, so...
July 12, 2016
Y'all. I wanted to like this book so much. It seems like so much fun and has a cartoon hunk on the cover, so when I found it in my store I was so excited to read it. It's a choose your own adventure format (though choose your own adventure is apparently copywritten so it's actually choose your own ending?) and each "adventure" is very short, so I made it through half a dozen different stories before I gave up.
Here's the thing: I know this is supposed to be cute and fun and I feel silly giving a legitimate negative review to something so playful, but it just doesn't do what it set out to do. It's clearly some sort of stab at camp, but it's not smart or clever enough to pull it off, and it's not fun enough to even be good kitsch. And when I figured out the prose was so dull I was hoping that at least there would be some steamy gay content, but there wasn't. The most you get is "the hot lifeguard" and "he gave a blowjob to so-and-so." No erotic value whatsoever.
Every storyline involves drag queens becoming radioactive when some barrel floats ashore and then attacking everybody. Every ending (at least the ones I made it to) is either the drag zombies got you or you got away. The most description we get of any of the queens is that one of them "looks like Cher" and they have a few throwaway lines of sexual innuendo.
Normally I would just say I don't like the book but if people want to have some dumb fun they should go ahead, but it also includes a slur for trans people (used in reference to the drag queens??). Admittedly we've come a long way since 2003 when this was published, but I still feel like it's general cluelessness takes it from being a harmless dumb book to being a book that creates "fun" for gay men at the expense of other queers. In that it's not alone, but without any redeeming qualities, its problematic aspects are just more glaring.
Here's the thing: I know this is supposed to be cute and fun and I feel silly giving a legitimate negative review to something so playful, but it just doesn't do what it set out to do. It's clearly some sort of stab at camp, but it's not smart or clever enough to pull it off, and it's not fun enough to even be good kitsch. And when I figured out the prose was so dull I was hoping that at least there would be some steamy gay content, but there wasn't. The most you get is "the hot lifeguard" and "he gave a blowjob to so-and-so." No erotic value whatsoever.
Every storyline involves drag queens becoming radioactive when some barrel floats ashore and then attacking everybody. Every ending (at least the ones I made it to) is either the drag zombies got you or you got away. The most description we get of any of the queens is that one of them "looks like Cher" and they have a few throwaway lines of sexual innuendo.
Normally I would just say I don't like the book but if people want to have some dumb fun they should go ahead, but it also includes a slur for trans people (used in reference to the drag queens??). Admittedly we've come a long way since 2003 when this was published, but I still feel like it's general cluelessness takes it from being a harmless dumb book to being a book that creates "fun" for gay men at the expense of other queers. In that it's not alone, but without any redeeming qualities, its problematic aspects are just more glaring.
January 6, 2011
I found this book randomly at a used bookstore and couldn't resist buying it. I love choose-your-own-adventure books as well as m/m books, so I thought it looked fun. And it is! I've currently experience five of the endings. This is one of those books that I would read over and over because it's quick and fun. I hope I can find some more of these!
November 14, 2007
Choose your own FABULOUS adventure!
January 24, 2008
Combining the fun of choose your own adventure with the fun of being gay!
September 20, 2008
I totally understand now!
August 7, 2012
Hilarious choose-your-own-adventure!
July 6, 2021
The mix of nostalgia and cheese was so much fun.
June 15, 2023
Generally fun. Uses the word t****y to refer to drag queens, which is less fun.
October 22, 2023
Not easy to read a choose your own adventure book on a device
May 26, 2015
Just like the Choose Your Own Adventure books I used to read growing up. Only with hotter guys. In speedoes. And blow-jobs!
Okay, it's cheesy and it's silly, and there's things like magical Prada Running Shoes and drag queen zombies and you might meet an FBI Agent (Agent Bottom, I kid you not) or have the most amazing glory hole experience of your life, but the nostalgia factor tied in with the queer content was just hilarious, and I loved it. I did the usual thing I always kid as a kid though, and found all the endings and figured out my way backwards from them, too, just so I could have had all the experiences the book had to offer. ;)
Okay, it's cheesy and it's silly, and there's things like magical Prada Running Shoes and drag queen zombies and you might meet an FBI Agent (Agent Bottom, I kid you not) or have the most amazing glory hole experience of your life, but the nostalgia factor tied in with the queer content was just hilarious, and I loved it. I did the usual thing I always kid as a kid though, and found all the endings and figured out my way backwards from them, too, just so I could have had all the experiences the book had to offer. ;)
September 13, 2020
CN: transmisia
rating: 2.5 stars
I have never read a choose your own adventure book, so I though I might as well try this parody of one as it's targeted for adults.
It's light and there are very interesting endings that can be reached.
rating: 2.5 stars
I have never read a choose your own adventure book, so I though I might as well try this parody of one as it's targeted for adults.
It's light and there are very interesting endings that can be reached.
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