I came across the Choose Your Own Adventure series today at Prairie Lights Books. I wasn't aware they were still in print. I recall they were amusingly unsatisfying.
Unsatisfying in that your choices amounted to maybe 3, and then you realize the story is not 150 pages, but about 15 to account for all the various options.
1 hour later you had exhausted most of the options, and therefor your interest.
With a quick dash over to Wikipedia, I learn the CYOA were recently resurrected, partly due to their interactivity, likened to the style of the web. That's great-- if you are a Choose Your Own Adventure book, not so great as one of its readers.
Very wild, as I read my first CYOA book in the past 15 years just last weekend. My sister-in-law had checked one out of the library. It was amusingly unsatisfying, as well as perhaps bordering on cultural insensitvity. I was shot by a poison dart from a witch-doctor.
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Unsatisfying in that your choices amounted to maybe 3, and then you realize the story is not 150 pages, but about 15 to account for all the various options.
1 hour later you had exhausted most of the options, and therefor your interest.
With a quick dash over to Wikipedia, I learn the CYOA were recently resurrected, partly due to their interactivity, likened to the style of the web. That's great-- if you are a Choose Your Own Adventure book, not so great as one of its readers.
Very wild, as I read my first CYOA book in the past 15 years just last weekend. My sister-in-law had checked one out of the library. It was amusingly unsatisfying, as well as perhaps bordering on cultural insensitvity. I was shot by a poison dart from a witch-doctor.
I remember them as well. I think "Come, Llamas" is probably a lot more interesting....
Wow, my wife just posted.
Fernando Lamas is more interesting.
http://images.google.com/images?q=fernando+lamas&hl=en&client=firefox-a&rls=org.mozilla:en-US:official&hs=dhl&um=1&sa=X&oi=images&ct=title
Clean it up, Stephen!
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