I’m still kind of amazed we don’t have a thread for this yet.
Fake backstory aside, I honestly think these game are pretty brilliantly structured and incredibly funny to boot. Is maga still doing those CYOA analysis/review things? Because these seem like they’d be a pretty good candidate for that.
I and my other friends definitely enjoyed these. We love “bad” translations both from human and machine translators. These “YWSD” stories went beyond that, though. They’re definitely a fun parody of the overall genre. Despite the theme of the works being displayed up front, they still managed to find ways to surprise and please me in charming ways. Soviet mind control indeed.
That would be my next book of choice too. I hope it wasn’t just a momentary fit of cleverness to add these titles.
So I’m stuck between wishing it was #3 (so it’s the next one) and wishing he got around to it, it being #6. I had a think on a few titles myself, but I don’t think I’d actually go through with the books.