/lit/ - Literature

[Anonymous No.16901348]

Are there any /lit/-approved choose your own adventure type books?
Why not?

[Anonymous No.16901367]

Yes, Rayuela by Cortazar. Have fun

[Anonymous No.16901368]

>>16901348
House of Leaves, maybe? If you're talking about shit like litRPG or Goosebumps, it's because they're extremely poorly written.

[Anonymous No.16901480]

>>16901367
>one decision in the whole book
>choose your own adventure

[Anonymous No.16901496]

>>16901348
Naked lunch encourages you to skip around and read sections you like, so it's kinda like a choose your own adventure but with alot more heroin and pedophilia

[Anonymous No.16901645]

>>16901348
>Are there any /lit/-approved choose your own adventure type books?
Not really.
>Why not?
CYOA was a type of book product for children. If you study the history of CYOA, and interactive fiction generally, you basically find out that its ancestor is not "books" or "stories" or "poems" or even "games". CYOA's great grandpa was "riddles". Riddles may be many things, but they are not particularly literary in the sense that they don't serve the same purposes as literature. I don't think most people who write CYOA, Twine games, or old school interactive fiction actually understand the form they are writing in, either. Inevitably they put their foot wrong because they think they are writing a story or designing a game, but actually they are providing answers to a riddle or mystery.

[Anonymous No.16902634]

>>16901348
play videogames

[Anonymous No.16902654]

sissy life

[Anonymous No.16902668]

What did RL Stine mean by this?

[Anonymous No.16902700]

a large portion of it is a choose your own adventure

[Anonymous No.16902723]

>>16901348
Yes it’s called “writing your own book”

[Anonymous No.16902750]

>>16902668
god i wish that were me