Choose Your Own Adventure Books

[LiamABC]

I've recently picked up a few of these in my local secondhand bookshop, and gotten right back into them. Of course I have all the Knightmare books, whose quest sections operate on largely the same principle, but it was still fun flipping through these. I was just wondering, has anybody else still got any of these?

[JamesA]

I don't actually have any of these books myself, but I do remember reading some of them a long time ago with great fondness - The Cave Of Time (the first of the series), the Prisoner Of The Ant People/War With The Evil Power Master double header, and there's also The Curse Of Batterslea Hall.... Lady Darkness being a character I remember to be genuinely terrifying.

However, my favourite is undoubtedly Hyperspace, a brilliant concept for an adventure gamebook, and one I recommend checking out should you ever get the opportunity.

[Pooka]

Yes, I have a few. Inside UFO 54-40, Beyond Escape!, Planet of the Dragons. They're good stuff.

Unlike a lot of other adventure gamebooks, there isn't a lot of fighting in the CYOA books. Fighting Fantasy books by Jackson & Livingstone, while a lot of fun to play and read, I always found a bit marred by the large amount of combat. CYOA doesn't suffer from slowdown in that way.

To be honest, they could be written a little better... but they're good examples of a genre which, at that time, hadn't really been explored to its full potential.

[shadow6162]

I'm addicted to Fighting Fantasy. I have 3 books at home (two of which are the same copy lolz) and the rest...well...I wish I could buy the library out of them.

[HStorm]

I suspect (with suitable embarrassment) that I still have a copy of The Underground Kingdom and Journey To The Year 3000 tucked away in the attic somewhere.

It goes without saying that any mention of this by any of you will lead to profuse bloodshed...