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Title: Who else fondly remembers "Choose Your Own Adventure" books (and spin-offs)
Post by: jinxmchue on November 13, 2009, 11:11:18 PM
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Choose_Your_Own_Adventure

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_Choose_Your_Own_Adventure_books

I can't remember specific ones of the originals that I liked, but my favorite CYOA spin-off was the "Lone Wolf" series, which were simply fantastic:

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Lone_Wolf_%28gamebooks%29
Title: Re: Who else fondly remembers "Chooise Your Own Adventure" books (and spin-offs)
Post by: Chris on November 13, 2009, 11:13:36 PM
I remember one that sent you back in time to die from the Plauge.
Title: Re: Who else fondly remembers "Chooise Your Own Adventure" books (and spin-offs)
Post by: jinxmchue on November 13, 2009, 11:16:18 PM
I remember one that sent you back in time to die from the Plauge.

Yeah, I recall they had some pretty nasty deaths in some (all?) of the books.
Title: Re: Who else fondly remembers "Choose Your Own Adventure" books (and spin-offs)
Post by: Celtic Rose on November 13, 2009, 11:21:48 PM
I loved those books.  I always died though :bawl:
Title: Re: Who else fondly remembers "Choose Your Own Adventure" books (and spin-offs)
Post by: Chris_ on November 14, 2009, 12:15:40 AM
I used to have a bit of a collection of those, back when I was a runt.
Title: Re: Who else fondly remembers "Choose Your Own Adventure" books (and spin-offs)
Post by: ReardenSteel on November 25, 2009, 04:01:39 PM
I recall them quite unfondly(wrd?)

I used to set the world speed record on those things for fast ugly death. lol

Funny story, I cheated on a book report using one of those books back in the day. I did a 2 page report on a book in which I died in like four pages. Teacher made me have a do-over on a "real" book.  :( OK it wasn't that funny. Still. No "good" memories associated with CYOA books.
Title: Re: Who else fondly remembers "Choose Your Own Adventure" books (and spin-offs)
Post by: jinxmchue on November 25, 2009, 07:34:18 PM
I recall them quite unfondly(wrd?)

I used to set the world speed record on those things for fast ugly death. lol

Funny story, I cheated on a book report using one of those books back in the day. I did a 2 page report on a book in which I died in like four pages. Teacher made me have a do-over on a "real" book.  :( OK it wasn't that funny. Still. No "good" memories associated with CYOA books.

That's teacher was a close-minded jerk.  I'd have let kids do book reports on CYOA books.  At least they got kids reading!  And they'd read them more than once, so that's a bonus, too.