Who remembers "Choose Your Own Adventure" books?

[Mutley]

:7

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

[Aristus]

1. I LOVED those!

I used to go to the library and check out four or five at a time. I kinda liked the fact that some of the deaths were a little gruesome. B-) It made me feel like I wasn't being talked down to. I would read and re-read them over and over, trying to see how many different adventures I could create. Thanks for the reminder, mutley. It's good to see these again. :thumbsup:

[VelmaD]

2. I LOVED those books...

I still have one...gotta go look and see which one.

on edit: It's titled "Space and Beyond" :)

[Mutley]

3. I loved 'em, too.

I Always managed to die on my first read through the book. :rofl:

[Liberal Veteran]

4. Turn to page 54 if you want me to respond.

Turn to page 6769 if you want me to go on to another post.

[Aristus]

5. Ha!

:7

[ncrainbowgrrl]

6. page 6769 says:

return to page 3- you forgot to pick up your sword before heading off on your journey.

[Mutley]

7. Turn to page 82 if you want me to care.

:rofl:

God, I wish I had one of those books right now. :P

[ALago1]

8. I always cheated

Whenever given a choice that seemed pretty important to the course of the story, I always flipped quickly to both pages to see if I'd die on either.

Haha...they were awesome books though

[Mutley]

10. I'm shocked! Shocked I tell you!

I did the same thing.:D

[libnnc]

9. Me! Me! Me!

I thought they were soooo cool! :bounce:

[Mutley]

11. They were cool!

Don't let anyone tell you different. :bounce:

[TK421]

12. I had a few of those....they rocked!

[Mutley]

13. I'm so relieved to find out I wasn't the only one.

:D

[deadparrot]

14. I do! I do!

I always tried to read every possible story, and I'd always peek ahead to see if I was gonna die. :D

[Mutley]

16. Me too.

:D

[_testify_]

15. I would open them to a random page

and work backwards.

I dunno why. I also used to read novels from the middle to the end, then go back and read the first half!

[Mutley]

17. I've never tried that before.

I think I will next time. :silly:


:P

[HarukaTheTrophyWife]

18. I LOVED those books.

[Mutley]

20. Hee! So did I.

I probably read them all. :crazy:

[LynzM]

19. I loved those....

Definitely had to try all the different possible combinations, and get peeved when you wound up back in the same spot!

[Mutley]

21. I always ended up dead.

The one I remember most clearly... I think I was killed by having to walk the plank on a pirate ship. :rofl:

[ALago1]

22. They always made the endings so melodramatic too

It wasn't just:

You took a wrong turn and are captured by pirates. Minutes later you walk the plank and die.

Instead it was something like:

As you shiver and quake you see the dirty eyes and scarred faces of the bloodthirsty pirates. As they begin to approach you with their hooked limbs you remember your mother and what it was like to be at peace and not have a care in the world. You wonder how the news will effect her but soon drift off to a permanent sleep.

THE END

[Mutley]

23. Haha, that's so perfect.

:rofl:

:thumbsup:

[TroubleMan]

24. Used to love those, too. My parents always found one for me on road trips

to keep me occupied.

[u4ic]

25. Looks like I was too old for them

I don't remember them.

They seem really cool, though. I think I would have loved them! :hi:

[auntAgonist]

26. I feel old LOL ... hiya friend!!!!!

my son loved them.
:hug:
aA

[u4ic]

28. Bah!

auntieA, you're not old! :hug:

Hope you're having a wonderful evening! I was eaten alive out there while picking raspberries, and am rather...itchy.... x(

[auntAgonist]

29. I LOVE raspberries!

I am going to look for a blueberry patch around here. There's hardly any farm markets or the like in this area. pathetic really. In Ontario, having lived in mennonite country, most of my fresh food shopping was done at roadside stands and the weekly farmer's market. I truly miss it.

:hug: :loveya: u4ic.

Do.Not.Scratch!!

aA

[u4ic]

30. I loved those roadside stands!

I miss them, too. Rarely do we get them here; sometimes the odd "cherries from BC" or Taber corn.

Niagara peaches. Ooooh...what I wouldn't do for some of those...:loveya:

This is a backyard raspberry bush...TONS of them. Every day I'm going out and picking a huge bowlful, and still they're falling on the ground because there's so many. I'm freezing them to add to plain yoghurt; much tastier than store bought flavoured yoghurt.

I'm trying not to scratch....but I'll go batty if I don't...:crazy:

:yourock: :hug: :loveya:

[auntAgonist]

31. you are SO lucky to have a patch in your back yard!

Calamine lotion? .. a cool bath perhaps.

I hope you don't go batty!!!

:rofl:

:hug:

aA


edited cuz i'm tired and i can't type right :)

[u4ic]

34. I'm there already...

but the mosquito bites just make it worse...:silly:

:loveya: :hug:

Spoiled right now, I am. Fresh garden strawberries, raspberries, lettuce, onions (and are they strong! yum), spinach, broccoli...

To paraphrase in the words of the immortal Onslow..."supermarket veggies taste like fairy pee". :D

[jpgray]

27. I read the one called "journey to earth" or something

The only ending if you landed in the USA was getting shot dead by the Army. :D

[NMMNG]

32. I remember them from working in bookstores

I read a few to see what they were like. They were pretty cool--I wish I had them when I was a kid.

[Lautremont]

33. Oh yeah. I was way into those things for a bit.

Grade six or so, as I recall.

[Monkey see Monkey Do]

35. Hell yeah! My favorite was "The Horror of High Ridge"

which was scary stuff for me at the time.



I went from them to the Ian Jackson & Steve Livingstone Fighting Fantasy series:

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

[RFKHumphreyObama]

36. I remember those

I still have one or two of those books. I thoroughly enjoyed reading them when I was a child and still enjoy doing so now. They bring back so many fond memories

[Fox Mulder]

37. I remember them!

[miss_american_pie]

38. I kept all mine

I cannot wait for my kids to learn to read. :hi: