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I semi-recently read one of the original series (about UFOs) and a much newer one by a different author (still an official choose-your-own-adventure, "#39: Curs
by abecedarius 4y ago
I semi-recently read one of the original series (about UFOs) and a much newer one by a different author (still an official choose-your-own-adventure, "#39: Curse of the Pirate Mist"). The first was much better. Suggests another reason for the decline.
- JohnBooty 4y ago#39 was right in the heyday of CYOA books. There are split opinions on the original CYOA authors. Pretty much everybody agrees that Edward Packard made very tight and well constructed stories. Many folks hate RA Montgomery's stories because they are weird and meandering, almost psychedelic. Personally that's why I always enjoyed them, even as a kid, but I think I'm in the minority. At any rate I don't think many people feel the series started to decline until maybe #100+
- abecedarius 4y agoI don't know what the deal is with the #39, but it's copyright 2011 and by a different author than most of the originals. The #39 does seem to conflict with the copyright year.
- JohnBooty 4y agoYeah, some of those books were revised in the 2000s. I think the settings were modernized a little, that kind of think.
- abecedarius 4y agoThanks for the correction!