Buy This: Choose-Your-Own (Hamlet) Adventure

How fare thee,  fair customers? In this "Buy This" we'll be spotlighting a book that rivals Shakespeare's genius. Not possible? Read more below the cut to see if we can't convince you.

Cover art by Noelle Stevenson

This outrageous choose-your-own adventure book began as a Kickstarter project by North, who only asked for $20,000. The idea was so popular though, the campaign ended up scoring $580,000 to create his book!

In To Be or Not to Be, you take on the role of Hamlet, Ophelia or King Hamlet, from Shakespeare's famous play. You guide your character from page to page, jumping back and forth between the front of the book and the back of the book, helping to create a story Shakespeare himself would be ashamed to read. With three different characters and over 700 pages, there are plenty of ways you can find your character getting into trouble.

As an added bonus, every ending has a special piece of art drawn for it, and there are many. You'll see artwork from all-star artists such as Kate Beaton of Hark! A Vagrant, Zac Gorman of Magical Game Time, and Matthew Inman (aka The Oatmeal).

Artwork by Jim Zub

So, if you like to take literary characters and put them in the most unexpected circumstances often ending in death (Hamlet was a tragedy) you'll love North's new book.