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Ocean of Lard - Carlton Mellick III

Description: ISBN 0976249820 / Author: Carlton Mellick III / Genre: Fiction / You're on the run from the cops and need to disappear somehow. Luckily ... more

Ocean of Lard - Carlton Mellick III ... you happen across a secret ocean in the middle of Wyoming. An undiscovered world of pirates and zombies that, according to maps, couldn't possibly exist. But here it is, a vast white sea that is made of some kind of greasy blubber substance instead of water. To escape, you must join the crew of one of the two ships at the dock. The first is a strange black cube-shaped vessel called The Eye World and the other is a totally punk rock pirate ship called The Rotten Sore. Which will you take? Ocean of Lard is a classic interactive adventure novel where you can choose your own path through the story.

Newest Review: ... for the adventure books, and Mellick’s credit appears first in the copyright details for the two separate scenarios. I ... more

... presume that Donihe is credited first on the cover out of alphabetical fairness that belies his true stance as secondary writer. Although both write roughly the same amount (something it’s hard to discern as the book jumps all over the place with every page), Mellick’s ‘The Eye World’ is more full of multiple choices and plot tangents than Donihe’s ‘The Rotten Sore,’ which repeatedly ends sections with a singular ‘choice’ in the style of ‘Turn to page 72.’ When a genuine choice is offered after three or four unchangeable ...more

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Ocean of Lard - Carlton Mellick III: Choose Your Own Mind-F*** Fest (1795 words)
by - written on 07/07/07 (Very useful, 79 readings)
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This enjoyable pet project of authors Kevin L. Donihe and Carlton Mellick III, the latter of whom is known for writing less successful and more twisted versions of the type of thing Chuck Palahniuk makes a lot of money writing about, is a direct parody of the memorable ‘Choose Your Own Adventure’ books published by Bantam Books in the 1980s. Like those innovative books, and the legions of rip-offs and copies they produced (the first one I remember reading was licensed from the Children’s ITV game show ‘Knightmare’), the reading experience is turned into a game that the reader/player will struggle through based on their own personality. These are the books that describe a ... Read the complete review