To Be or Not To Be

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To Be or Not To Be is a choose your own path version of Hamlet by New York Times best selling author Ryan North Play as Hamlet, Ophelia, or King Hamlet if you want to die on the first page and play as a ghost It s pretty awesome Readers can follow Yorick skull markers to stick closely to Shakespeare s plot, or go off script and explore alternative possibilities filled with puzzles and humor.Each ending in the book is accompanied by a full color, full page illustration by one of the 65 most excellent artists working today, so each rereading yields new surprises and rewards Ryan s prose is, as always, colloquial and familiar but full of clever references, vivid imagination, and only the most choice of jokes Inventive devices like a book within a book to mirror Hamlet s play within a play take full advantage of the gamebook medium and liven up the original story for even the most disinterested of Shakespeare readers To Be or Not to Be became a sensation when it launched over 15,000 people backed the book in just one month, and it remains the number one most funded publishing project ever on Kickstarter.com.To be, or not to be that is the adventure Best Download To Be or Not To Be [ by ] Ryan North [ Kindle ePUB or eBook ] – kino-fada.fr 1 Upon discovering this review, you are offered your first choice.Would you rather be reading this Witness this army of such mass and chargeLed by a delicate and tender prince,Whose spirit with divine ambition puff dMakes mouths at the invisible event,Exposing what is mortal and unsureTo all that fortune, death, and danger dare,Even for an egg shell Rightly to be greatIs not to stir without great argument,But greatly to find quarrel in a strawWhen honour s at the stake How stand I then,That h 1 Upon discovering this review, you are offered your first choice.Would you rather be reading this Witness this army of such mass and chargeLed by a delicate and tender prince,Whose spirit with divine ambition puff dMakes mouths at the invisible event,Exposing what is mortal and unsureTo all that fortune, death, and danger dare,Even for an egg shell Rightly to be greatIs not to stir without great argument,But greatly to find quarrel in a strawWhen honour s at the stake How stand I then,That have a father kill d, a mother stain d,Excitements of my reason and my blood,And let all sleep while, to my shame, I seeThe imminent death of twenty thousand men,That, for a fantasy and trick of fame,Go to their graves like beds, fight for a plotWhereon the numbers cannot try the cause,Which is not tomb enough and continentTo hide the slain O, from this time forth,My thoughts be bloody...After joyfully frolicking through this hilarious book my only question is why the hell did it take someone so long to write a Shakespeare choose your own adventure I know, I know, I know if there was one thing missing from your life it was the chance to determine the fate of Shakespeare s Hamlet for yourself all while enjoying illustrations from a wide variety of super talented cartoonists and artists Me too Well Ryan North has answered our collective pleas and to this I say I am but mad nor After joyfully frolicking through this hilarious book my only question is why the hell did it take someone so long to write a Shakespeare choose your own adventure I know, I know, I know if there was one thing missing from your life it was the chance to determine the fate of Shakespeare s Hamlet for yourself all while enjoying illustrations from a wide variety of super talented cartoonists and artists Me too Well Ryan North has answered our collective pleas and to this I say I am but mad north by northwest when the wind is southerly I know a hawk from a handsaw Get it That was from Hamlet Okay look its hard to quote Shakespeare in daily conversation so I gotta take my opportunities where I find them Seriously this book is such a trip To over explain an obvious concept this is a very hip, very goofy send up of Shakespeare s classic where you the reader may play through as either Ophelia who according to North is a super smart, assertive, grab em by the balls hero...Kickstarter books are always a gamble That s part of the fun Maybe There s the whole Is this book even going to get written and published like the author promised thing NEVER EVEN MIND the Will I even like it thing Well this book got kickstarted and it really happened, right on schedule, and I really like it, it is the one of the most fun books in existence I don t know what exactly I was expecting You hear Hamlet Choose Your Own Adventure and you think A Fun New Take On Shakespeare Kickstarter books are always a gamble That s part of the fun Maybe There s the whole Is this book even going to get written and published like the author promised thing NEVER EVEN MIND the Will I even like it thing Well this book got kickstarted and it really happened, right on schedule, and I really like it, it is the one of the most fun books in existence I don t know what exactly I was expecting You hea...One of my friends and I endeavored to thoroughly read Ryan North s TO BE OR NOT TO BE A Chooseable Path Adventure over the weekend, and we were bemused to find that when we tried to make sensible decisions, TO BE OR NOT TO BE provided us with a very sensible ending Hamlet Sr didn t try to make his son into a murderer Ophelia invents the barometer instead of dyi...I am writing a review of this book even though I have not finished it Well, I have finished it multiple times, but I have not read every page of the book I don t know how to get to the chess game Welcome to To Be or Not to Be A Chooseable Path Adventure, Ryan North s amazingly brilliant interpretation of Hamlet It is hard not to use hyperbole when describing this book, but it deserves it like Claudius deserves to die.At a social gathering, I often pull out the book and ask, Who wants to pla I am writing a review of this book even th...I ve played through several times, gotten a few grizzly deaths and even a couple of happy endings Unlike the choose your own adventure books I read as a kid this seems to have inexhaustible options and endings to delight and amuse I m waiting for my physical book to arrive before going through everything because, though the ebooks are quality productions it s becoming a little tedious jumping around to find different endings It s just going to be easier wit...Not my cup of tea.I didn t find it that funny but the concept of it is brilliant It is just not for me Although this book is humongous, I flew through it I finished it in an hour.This is a Hamlet adaptation but a very different experience Here, you can ...Ryan North is probably still best known for Dinosaur Comics, but he s branched out into publishing before with the Machine of Death anthologies I m halfway through the first one and have been for a couple of years, which is my typical approach to anthologies, but they re interesting and the Adventure Time comics This book, which was Kickstarter funded Kickstarted , is a choosable path choose your own adventure is a copyrighted phrase, apparently re telling of Hamlet It s bananas Ryan N Ryan North is probably still best known for Dinosaur Comics, but he s branched out into publishing before with the Machine of Death anthologies I m halfway through the first one and have been for a couple of years, which is my typical approach to anthologies, but they re interesting and the Adventure Time comics This book, which was Kickstarter funded Kickstarted , is a choosable path choose your own adventure is a copyrighted phrase, apparently re tell...4.25 These books are so clever and make Shakespeare so muchaccessible I also have a feeling that Shakespeare might have really approved of their tone There is no doubt that this book will raise student s interest and understanding of Shakespeare The one drawback is that Shakespeare s perversions that are typically veiled from many in his language are front and center in this format It is reflective of Shakespeare, but it might be a little much for some I know this book makes me want t 4.25 These books are so clever and make Shakespeare so muchacc...This book is just one excessively long joke And it s not a good joke.

To Be or Not To Be
  • English
  • 02 June 2018
  • Paperback
  • 768 pages
  • 0982853742
  • Ryan North
  • To Be or Not To Be