Sunday

3/11/2007


DSC01440, originally uploaded by spcummings.

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.

7 comments:

Pat said...

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.

Stephen Cummings said...

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.

Dan said...

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.

Anonymous said...

I remember them as well. I think "Come, Llamas" is probably a lot more interesting....

Stephen Cummings said...

Wow, my wife just posted.

Pat said...

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

Dan said...

Clean it up, Stephen!