Choose Your Own Adventure

[Longhorn_Fan68]

Those ruled.

 

[bevo_daddy]

i always flipped ahead to see what would happen, i guess you could say i cheated, buthey, i didnt want the story to end there damnit!

 

[Horns2005]

I am proud to say I bravely chose my path without holding the choice page most of the time.

 

[Mack Tripper]

Those kicked ***. I bought Hyperspace and The Race Forever at a used bookstore a couple of years ago for 50 cents each.

 

[YChang]

I remember when the school library would have book fairs and those were always the titles I would purchase.

 

[austintex]

Turn to page 32 if you think those books ruled.
Turn to page 59 if you think they sucked.

 

[Brisketexan]

They should write these for adults:

"If you choose to go home with the blonde that you insist is a babe at closing time, go to page 29; if you choose to go with your friends to taco cabana to eat $20 worth of food that you will likely puke up in less than an hour, go to page 51."

I might read a coupla those.

 

[GHoward]

I used to read those, but my English teachers would get so pissed because they couldn't tell how much I was reading.

This is my favorite CYOA website. The narrative isn't as well developed as in the books, but it's not at predictable.

 

[BNB]

I used to love those until I was at Twin Oaks Public Library flipping through them to see which one I wanted to check out. This kid comes up to me and starts asking me about them. I later check it out and go to get my Mongoose bike I mowed lawns all summer for to find out it had been stolen, and I realized that guy was just stalling me. To top it off, as I was crying outside, some guy comes up and asks what happened and I explained my bike was stolen. He tells me the kid must have needed it more than me! I should have punched that guy in the junk.

 

[MilkmanDan]

My mom is cleaning out the attic and just dropped off a box full of them.

My favorite was a D&D type that I never actually rolled the dice for, and I can't find it in the box. Dammit.

 

[FanofBurntOrange]

This will date me but in 1980 it all started with "The Cave of Time"...man, I must be getting old!

 

[PFD]

Awesome. Also a favorite series of mine were the "Encyclopedia Brown" books. Encyclopedia was a pimp.

 

[LonghornDan]

MMD, check this link out - I bet this is what you were referring to.

Lone Wolf Books

 

[jcdenton]

When I was a kid I used to have a choose-your-own-adventure type book which was obviously written for an older audience and hard as HELL. It was kind of like an RPG where you had hit points and had to fight monsters (cue robe and wizard hat jokes), and you would have to solve some pretty hard riddles/puzzles just to find out which page to go to next. It was so hard, even when I tried to cheat I could never "finish" the book.

The book was set in medieval England and referred to different real geographic locations like Glastonbury, Stonehenge, etc. A lot of the story had to do with Stonehenge and ancient druids who did human sacrifice and **** like that. The cover had something that looked like the Loch Ness monster with a long neck coming up out of the water.

Anyone know what book (or book series) this might have been?

EDIT: Allsome, starting from the link above I figured out what it was. Time to pay a visit to eBay...
The Link