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Any good "choose your own adventure" book you would recommend for adults?
by Im_a_throw_away 9y ago
Any good "choose your own adventure" book you would recommend for adults?
- Quarrelsome 9y agoFighting fantasy books by Steve Jackson. More teen than adult but a significant step up from classic CYOA.
- setq 9y agoCan You Survive the Zombie Apocalypse? by Max Brallier is the only one I've gone through and it was quite good.
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- krisoft 9y agoI don't know about _book_ books, but if I take your question more generally to mean any interactive fiction, then I would heartily recommend Counterfeit Monkey from Emily Short, or the 80 Days from Inkle. Both are a beauty in their respective styles, and was great fun to play with.
- ZeroGravitas 9y agoI've not read it yet, but the pop-culture/horror writer (and film critic) Kim Newman has a choose your own adventure book called Life's Lottery that lets you make life desicions for the protagonist as he grows up starting from childhood in 1960s England. It gets good reviews on Amazon and his stuff is usually good.
- hyper_reality 9y agoI highly recommend Life's Lottery. It's a nostalgic return to 80's Britain that should be entertaining even for anyone who didn't live through those years. The fact that you control the choices of a person from childhood to adulthood, with astonishingly different outcomes depending on those choices, has the sublime effect of making you consider the direction your real life is going, and how your everyday trivial decisions shape it. Sometimes what appears to be a minor choice or even an evil decision can lead to a better outcome than the alternative. New paperback and ebook editions were released a few years ago.
- scjody 9y agoAny of Sherwin Tija's books are humorous, well-illustrated takes on the genres that are definitely not for kids. Plus most of them feature cats! (The original is "You Are a Cat") https://www.amazon.com/s/ref=dp_byline_sr_book_1?ie=UTF8&text=Sherwin+Tija&search-alias=books&field-author=Sherwin+Tija&sort=relevancerank https://www.amazon.com/s/ref=dp_byline_sr_book_1?ie=UTF8&tex...
- StevePerkins 9y agoNearly the entire Lone Wolf saga (20+ books) was donated and made freely available on https://www.projectaon.org https://www.projectaon.org, along two other minor series by the same author (one "Mad Max"-style postapocalyptic, and the other military-themed). Lone Wolf was one of the best series in this genre back in the 1980's, and doesn't get nearly enough mention in comparison to the CYOA or Steve Jackson stuff. They are long out of print, but I still have a soft spot in my heart for the GrailQuest series... a very loosely King Authur-themed series with a much more whimsical and campy style. I remember mailing the author a fan letter when I was about 10 years old, and receiving a very nice handwritten reply from Ireland (which I probably still have tucked in an old photo album somewhere). In the age of email, social media, and $50 autograph lines at cosplay conventions, younger people will probably never know the magic of contacting a favorite author and unexpectedly receiving a tangible reply later on.
- strictnein 9y agoLone Wolf was great. Incorporated RPG elements, inventory that carried over between books, and a decent battle system that didn't require dice.
- jhanschoo 9y agoFor a refreshing, tongue-in-cheek retelling of Shakespeare's Hamlet, I recommend "To Be Or Not To Be: That Is The Adventure by Ryan North"