A middle-aged lawyer lets his kids Choose Their Own Adventure for their bedtime story, planting the seeds for a publishing phenomenon “as contagious as chicken pox.”
What these books didn't do was reward good decision making. The choices were essentially random and you could have a bad outcome on any page. A good start in the genre but they could have been so much better.
No mention of CYOA being in the tiny literary genre of books written in the second person?
In 2018 David Morris and Jamie Thomson, veterans of 'choose your own adventure' fantasy books, collaborated on 'Can You Brexit?: Without Breaking Britain' ...
Enjoyed these books as a kid. Of course, they don’t hold up as an adult because any given decision is basically a coin-flip. Fighting Fantasy was more appealing to me as a young adult, although I never bothered with the dice and I don’t think many people did.
Can I also say that your articles are sublimely written! I can easily envisage them in a printed book and I’m looking forward to the promised kickstarter. I wish I could write like you.
What these books didn't do was reward good decision making. The choices were essentially random and you could have a bad outcome on any page. A good start in the genre but they could have been so much better.
No mention of CYOA being in the tiny literary genre of books written in the second person?
In 2018 David Morris and Jamie Thomson, veterans of 'choose your own adventure' fantasy books, collaborated on 'Can You Brexit?: Without Breaking Britain' ...
Enjoyed these books as a kid. Of course, they don’t hold up as an adult because any given decision is basically a coin-flip. Fighting Fantasy was more appealing to me as a young adult, although I never bothered with the dice and I don’t think many people did.
Can I also say that your articles are sublimely written! I can easily envisage them in a printed book and I’m looking forward to the promised kickstarter. I wish I could write like you.
Thank you! I spend a lot of time trying to make them readable and clear, so I'm very glad that's coming across and is appreciated. =)