When I was just a lad at Juniata Gap Elementary, a boy named Aaron and I alternately hogged a library book called The Third Planet from Altair, the only Choose Your Own Adventure type on the shelves. The interweb has taught me that the odds of success in the book were a bleak 6 to 38, which may explain my cynical attitude. Aaron, who loved the book more than I did, tragically ended up even worse.
I moved on to the new CYOA paperback series with #1, The Cave of Time, which was the best in the series, although I also had a fondness for UFO 54-40. The reader had to cheat to reach the three page utopia ending because no other pages referenced it. That taught me to be underhanded. Ah, the way we were.
If you’d like to read a depressing CYOA online, become a McDonald’s cook.
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Site of the Day: Anthony Lane bitch-slaps George Lucas to bed.
When I was just a lad at Juniata Gap Elementary, a boy named Aaron and I alternately hogged a library book called The Third Planet from Altair, the only Choose Your Own Adventure type on the shelves. The interweb has taught me that the odds of success in the book were a bleak 6 to 38, which may explain my cynical attitude. Aaron, who loved the book more than I did, tragically ended up even worse.
I moved on to the new CYOA paperback series with #1, The Cave of Time, which was the best in the series, although I also had a fondness for UFO 54-40. The reader had to cheat to reach the three page utopia ending because no other pages referenced it. That taught me to be underhanded. Ah, the way we were.
If you’d like to read a depressing CYOA online, become a McDonald’s cook.
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Site of the Day: Anthony Lane bitch-slaps George Lucas to bed.
