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I read a couple of the Goosebumps ones and thought they sucked.

I enjoyed the Lone Wolf series.

I was cheating all the time.

You are wrong. CYOA took too much time and effort.
Seriously, they expected me to get pen and paper, and record stats and shit.

>>6267724
>Seriously, they expected me to get pen and paper, and record stats and shit.
that never happened in the books i read

>>6267728
Maybe I just had real shitty books.

>>6267728

after the CYOA books really got popular there were some others published which had paper-and-dice RPG elements incorporated.

and yes, OP i wasted a ton of time on those books.

Actually I did, but I thought every kid did that.

the later ones were better, as they had longer storylines and fewer Bad Ends.

I think Dinosaur Island was my favorite.

The imitators (Goosebumps, animorphs) were SHIT.

I actually read a CYOA for adults awile back, "Big Night Out" where you play as a guy (or girl) trying to go out and get laid. it was fun.

Yeah, good instinct. I used to read those books nonstop.

I saw a commercial for a Choose Your Own Adventure DVD game. It was basically an animated visual novel, except without words: the choices were pictures.
Damn lazy kids don't read.

I remember reading a Goosebumps CYOA book in 5th grade. It was something about some kid breaking into his mom's ultra-scientific research facility. Don't remember the point of it at all, but the one thing that stuck with me is where he and his friend were in some room with a vending machine, and he ate some granola from the machine, which then turned him into a dog. His mother finds him, doesn't know it's him, and keeps the dog as her pet, scolding and training him since he goes on to win awards for being a dog with the intelligence of a human.

And so the seeds to my submissive side were sown. Now I have dreams of becoming Ilya's pet, pampered and beaten.

I still have this one in my car. I ascribe to the Secrets of the Ninja every day of my life.

Oh man fucking goosebumps, I read one about a museum or house of wax or something, and this one about a mermaid or someshit.
That was cool.

p.99

ENDLESS STAIRCASE OH GOD

Am I the only one who would keep all the fingers of their hands stuck in previous pages as bookmarks? You know, in case you got a sudden BAD END or just didn't like the path you went down, and then found yourself bookmarking about eight or so choices because you were sure you were about to hit a bad end?

>>6271907
Oh hell yes.

Or randomly flipping through book until you find good end, then work backwards.

this book was sooooooooooo creepy...

>>6267708

Naw, when I was a kid, I was too busy with this shit right here.

Brian Jacques dominated my childhood. I think he's the reason I enjoy sword-and-sorcery epics so much these days.

i didn't know those existed before i saw them on /jp/, they were never sold here.

>>6271997
Curse your non-American heritage, pathetic third-worlder.

>>6267708
The boy reminds me of Yusaku Godai

>>6271982
I never liked you much, but I have to say that this improves that a little.

Redwall was my childhood as well. I tried to transcribe Redwall into my journal in first grade, but I only got as far as the table of contents.

>>6271982
read the fuck out of those in the early-mid 90s, eventually got sick of the same thing every time

Best Choose Your Own Adventure book.

Only one I ever read.

>>6267724
Is that what you were playing? I remember starting one of them but the Forgotten Realms books were less work so I liked them better.

>>6272025
Same here. For a while they were good for nostalgia value, but by Lord Brocktree I think I'd had enough.

>>6272071

There are even better SW novels, brohampton. Read X-Wing, or the Thrawn Trilogy, or the Shadows of the Empire.

>>6272210

Lord Brocktree and Legend of Luke were rad. So was Outcast of Redwall. Pearls of Lutra was god tier.

I found I liked the unconventional stories better than the conventional ones, save for a few. Most of the conventional stories are horribly plodding to me now, but as a child they were comfortingly familiar...

Vampires in space. What more could you want?

>>6272247
Sorry, I hated Lord Brocktree - that could just have been because of Dotty though. I think Pearls of Lutra was my favourite, I still have the hardcover copy on my bookshelf. I loved Outcast as well, but it has been relegated to the attic. Martin the Warrior holds a special place in my heart too, since it was the first new release after I started reading the series. I think I even dressed up as Martin that Halloween. Hmm.

Your taste in SW books is something I agree with as well, though I never liked the Alliston X-Wing books as much as the Stackpole ones.