Choose Your Own Adventure books

[giza]

They're baaaack! Along with being updated with 21st century references, such as cellphones.

You can find a list of all of the Choose Your Own Adventure books over here. My personal favorite book, however, was Space Patrol. Anyone remember this cover?


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Comments

[tosdragon.livejournal.com]

Of course! I had about half a shelf full of those! Reading with your finger in the referring page in case you managed to kill yourself off quickly was always fun :)

[giza.livejournal.com]

I used to just fold down the corner of the page where there was a chioce, so I could go back to it. And that's how I taught myself the concept of recursion when I was in the Second Grade!

[tosdragon.livejournal.com]

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[tosdragon.livejournal.com]

And remember. In the future, all clothes will cling to your butt to show off thight meat and buns!

[wally-wabbit.livejournal.com]

I remember these books from back in elementary school. They kicked ass. That title seems to ring a bell.

Project AON.

[lionman.livejournal.com]

Joe Dever has most generously offered to allow some of his books to be published on the internet thereafter to be downloaded free-of-charge. Rob Adams, Paul Bonner, Gary Chalk, Melvyn Grant, Richard Hook, Peter Andrew Jones, Cyril Julien, Peter Lyon, Peter Parr, Graham Round, and Brian Williams have also generously offered similar permission for their contributions to the world of Magnamund. Project Aon is a volunteer group of fans dedicated to publishing these works.

Link: http://www.projectaon.org/en/Main/Home

[normanrafferty.livejournal.com]

My favorite remains Who Killed Harlowe Thrombey?

Really, though, I'd prefer to be an Interplanetary Spy!

[rigelkitty.livejournal.com]

Yup, I bought them religiously until they started changing the format.

My favorites were all in the first ten, tho there were some good ones that followed, like "Inside UFO 54-40", "War With the Evil Power Master", "Supercomputer", and "You Are A Shark".

[tosdragon.livejournal.com]

You Are A Shark was my favorite of the series, hands down. I think I read that over and over, and got pissed off every time I ended up as a mosquito and got smooshed by that little girl!

[kellic.livejournal.com]

DUDE! I loved these books as a kid!

One you might have missed...

[zealianbadass.livejournal.com]

Re: One you might have missed...

[giza.livejournal.com]

That's awesome!

[brahma-minotaur.livejournal.com]

Loved 'em.

[orca-and-mommy.livejournal.com]

I remember those from when I was a kid! :-)

Actually, several of those books were the inspiration to experiment with creating text-based computer roleplaying games at computer camp. (We're talking 1983/1984 here.)

Thinking about it makes me want to dig out an old Apple ][. :-)

Orca _)\_

[nius.livejournal.com]

My favorite CYOAs were any adventure where I'd "... get turned into $animal and run off into the woods!" Guess I was a furry freak child :P

My favorite childrens books were the Encyclopedia Brown series.

[norenco.livejournal.com]

Hah, I remember those. There were a number of cheap knockoffs, as well, although some were pretty good. One of the wannabe series, called Twistaplot or something to that effect, was pretty high quality. One of the books was about stopping at Dracula's mansion to ask for directions to a gas station and getting mistaken for a television repair man, and another involved getting your interplanetary driving license (and included a great list of things to do in a completely dark, soundproof room if you need to pass some time). I think I might actually still have them around somewhere.

[tlttlotd.livejournal.com]

I still have most of the ones from my childhood in a crate somewhere, on the off chance that I ever get around to having kids.

Does anyone remember Micro Adventures, that taught you elementary BASIC programming?

[patchoblack.livejournal.com]

I wonder if I still have The Cave of Time somewhere. That was the first one in the series, by the way.

[shenryyr.livejournal.com]

I had plenty from the Lone Wolf series, but didn't find them any interesting.

[frankiethirteen.livejournal.com]

I've seen the new Choose Your Own Adventure books! I was so excited to see them back!

[darthgeek.livejournal.com]

Oh man. I totally remember those. I always tried to reverse engineer them by finding a cool looking page and working backwards.

[firedhusky.livejournal.com]

Those books were actually translated in diferent languages, we had them in Argentina when i was growing up ! (in spanish)

:)

FDH