SERIOUS INTERNET WARNING!!

[spatch]

There is a monster at the end of this book.

Comments

[glowkitty]

Oh my goodness. You are the king of repressed childhood memories, do you realize this?

[signsoflife.livejournal.com]

I LOVE THAT BOOK!

[mhaille.livejournal.com]

It's the second book I learned to read. (First was Winnie The Pooh And The Blustery Day.)

oh i am so embarassed...

[hemlock-martini.livejournal.com]

!!!

[roup42.livejournal.com]

Huzzah!

[moiread]

This one is my favourite page ever. I still have the book kicking around somewhere.

[spatch]

I love that page, too.

I think that the book overall loses something since you're clicking on links to "turn" the pages, but it's still so charming and wonderful.

[moiread]

I've found that with all books, though. I have a hard time reading longer documents online (or entire books, ye gods, no) and prefer hard copies. This is ironic, since I have been practically living online for about ten years now, but I find it just looses something. It's less pleasant.

[huskyscotsman.livejournal.com]

I dunno, I have never seen this before but the web version is totally awesome. I wish I'd read this as a kid!

[hotpoint.livejournal.com]

I have a copy!

[jasonlove.livejournal.com]

Likewise!

[cheezdanish.livejournal.com]

OMG I LOVE THIS BOOK this book was my absolute favorite when I was a kid. Wow.

Thank you, Spatch! :D

[roup42.livejournal.com]

And of course, I'm sure you are all aware that the book has now been despoiled by its "updating" with the presence of the Great Red Usurper.

[jmspencer.livejournal.com]

You can still get the original. I bought one last year for when I have children... someday... just in case they do stop producing the non-Evil version

[mhaille.livejournal.com]

Yeah, I have the original. Having kids = the bestest excuse sometimes. (See also, bounce castles and swings.)

[heathbar27.livejournal.com]

Now I feel the need to go spend a shitload of money on Amazon ordering this and all my favorite childhood books, on the small chance I might have kids one day, because I could not stand their "dinosaur books" to be about Barney, or to have Elmo at the end of the fucking book.

[seph.livejournal.com]

My niece has the new version. It's a good thing she can't read and just shrieks in delight at the mere sight of that thing, because she'd be sorely disappointed with the book's contents otherwise.

[bostonista.livejournal.com]

Elmo must die.

[cursethedark.livejournal.com]

Agreed.

I once wrote a story where someone had put a hit out on Elmo, as well as the other 'new' Sesame Street Muppets.

Best line: "I think it's time we sent Elmo to sleep with the Fraggles."

[heathbar27.livejournal.com]

I cannot possibly have a bad day now that I have seen the monster at the end of the book. Whee! :)

[dogofthefuture.livejournal.com]

We own that book. I'm not kidding.

me too

[(Anonymous)]

As a little kid I was always scared while reading that book, but then not at the end. and so I'd read it again... I read it a lot.

-Dan Zarrella

[maga-dogg.livejournal.com]

Wow. I'd somehow never seen that before.

You'd have thought that after the first couple of failures, he'd vary his strategy a little.

[revolution724.livejournal.com]

That was one of my VERY FAVORITE BOOKS when I was shorter and frecklier than I am now. *heart* Grover!

[fancycwabs.livejournal.com]

I remember this book, but the updated version I got my own kids The Ho At The End Of This Book, by Paris Hilton, didn't seem to have the same effect.

[suzepie.livejournal.com]

I'm sitting here doing everything I can to both avoid and complete the employee reviews that I have to have done tomorrow. I am so stressed out that my ears are tingling at the edges and the back of my neck is full of grade-D gristle. I come on to Livejournal. And get to heave the biggest, happiest sigh.

Everyone on my team is getting a kickass review now.

[cursethedark.livejournal.com]

*spit take* WHAT?!!

That tears it. Where's my gun.

Turn the page

[mdm-sosostris.livejournal.com]

That book is wonderful. I have a copy of it in my car right now, actually. I've bought it like three times; I keep losing it, or giving it away. I used to make the kids in my arts and crafts programs turn the pages--they loved it when the wall fell down. Awesome.

[redtheblue.livejournal.com]

Love the illustrations now more than in 1984. Jon Stone might be a genius, and this is the only thing he did I know about.