Expect a MAF review of this book shortly...

[MrAngryFace]

I also nabbed SECRET OF THE NINJA.

[bud]

i bet you bought that for 3 bucks in some grocerystore.

[MrAngryFace]

at some BOOKSTORE sir

[TVC15]

And they were 3 for 10 dollars, so it was like 3.33 dollars.

[MrAngryFace]

God DAMN F-

[Himu]

And here I thought MAF finally decided to cave and give HP a try.

[Yeti]

Man, that cover suuuuuucks compared to the classic one.

[Mondain]

Fighting Fantasy and other RPG gamebook series

[Howard Alan Treesong]

did they add an extra ending in the reprint

[Yeti]

OH SHIT i didn't even notice the difference in endings, good eye

[TVC15]

did they add an extra ending in the reprint

THAT'S A RETCON!  NO FAIR!

[HyperZoneWasAwesome]

gosh dang, I loved those books as a tyke.

[TVC15]

The most amusing part of this whole episode is that MAF apparently never read these things when he was a tyke, so he's not reading them through nostalgia's rose-tinted lenses.

[HyperZoneWasAwesome]

The most amusing part of this whole episode is that MAF apparently never read these things when he was a tyke, so he's not reading them through nostalgia's rose-tinted lenses.

Criminy, how does a guy who was a kid in the 80's miss those?  And I'm on Alaskan time, so I've got a reason to still be up, what the hell are you doing still awake?

there was a really good Star Trek (original series of course) Choose Your Own Adventure book that I dug, most of the rest of them are a blur in my memory, a teeming mass of sudden, grisly deaths (violence in kid lit FTW) and awesome plot twists.  Good stuff they were.

[TVC15]

The most amusing part of this whole episode is that MAF apparently never read these things when he was a tyke, so he's not reading them through nostalgia's rose-tinted lenses.

Criminy, how does a guy who was a kid in the 80's miss those?  And I'm on Alaskan time, so I've got a reason to still be up, what the hell are you doing still awake?

there was a really good Star Trek (original series of course) Choose Your Own Adventure book that I dug, most of the rest of them are a blur in my memory, a teeming mass of sudden, grisly deaths (violence in kid lit FTW) and awesome plot twists.  Good stuff they were.

MAF is around my age (26), and I personally can not remember seeing a new copy of one of these books when I was a kid.  They were all school library copies, or hand-me-downs.  I think we may have grown up on the tail end of this.

Actually, looking at the wiki page, new ones were regularly published up until the late 90s.  Curiously, the ones that I definitely remember are early 80s ones, despite being born in 81.

[HyperZoneWasAwesome]

I'm 27, pretty much all the readings of those I did were in the late 80's/early 90's.  I bought a few brand new ones from that time, but yeah, most of the ones I read were library copies/hand me downs from older cousins and friends.

now don't any of you bastards steal my impending Encyclopedia Brown appreciation thread.

[MrAngryFace]

I wasn't big into reading until 5th or 6th grade, my family was poor and I lived on the move for 3-4 years, and when I finally settled down I started reading fantasy/sci fi by Raymond Feist as an example. The period between the divorce and moving to Arizona (for the second time) was pretty turbulent and didnt lend itself to much recreation at all. Just poor people boredom on a farm 60 miles from the nearest city.

[The Fake Shemp]

You're kind of like Luke Skywalker.  Except your family is still alive and the lack of force powers and all.

[Error Macro]

God DAMN F-

Succinct and laugh-inducing.  This is the best review I've read in a long time!

[demi]

now don't any of you bastards steal my impending Encyclopedia Brown appreciation thread.

Those books are awesome, but I was pretty dumb to figure most of them out

[Yeti]

While we're appreciating old children's book series, let's throw these in:

[ToxicAdam]

There's a special place in hell for the cover illustrator of Choose Your Own Adventure books.


Our elementary school had a stupid rule where you HAD to check out a book every week. So, all the boys would  make a mad dash for the CYOA books in the back of the library. By the end of the year, the teacher had banned borrowing those books, any book about the NFL and Judy Blume books (all the girls gobbled them up). So much for freedom of choice.

[Yeti]

so where's the review MAF? you said to expect one shortly, and, well, it isn't like it should take you long to read.

[Van Cruncheon]

God DAMN F-

perhaps YOU should start a similar reading acumen, yeti! we all gotta start somewhere

[Yeti]

I'm re-reading all the Harry Potter books, and NO ONE wants to hear about that. 

[Ichirou]

I remember writing an obscene choose your own adventure Mario book when I was in elementary school.  Basically all the routes had Mario killing and eating Yoshi, getting into a knife fight with Bowser, etc., etc.  Ahhh, youth.