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The Exquisite Corpse Adventure (2000)

by M.T. Anderson(Favorite Author)

3.36 of 5 Votes: 1

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review 1: This was a promising idea that turned out to be just about unreadable. I like the concept of the "exquisite corpse" but here, it just turns into an excuse for every different author to come up with some ridiculous, over-the-top cliffhanger to end their chapter. It's like they said, "Let's see how the NEXT guy gets them out of this!!" That just led to one deus ex machina after another, and that is NOT fun reading. Plus, I just wasn't digging the characters here. A talking pig? An evil clown? Assorted bad guys who come and go with the next author's whim? Blah.
review 2: Each chapter of this book was written by a different well-known and revered children's book author. I think the authors had fun weaving a collective story like this. A fun idea for students to try... more with this as the example. The story was outlandish and a bit confusing as each author took it first one way and the next another but in general it was fun to see an author take another's idea and run with it and develop it and bring ideas back or rehash where the story had gone. It was also interesting to see how each authors voice was intact and it became quite a symphany of voices. less

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