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Choose Your Own Adventure Books Return

Posted by ryuzaki0 on from the totally-hawesome dept.

KermodeBear writes "Eight of the original 'Choose Your Own Adventure' books are to be republished this summer. From the Article: 'First published in 1979, the books let readers remix their own stories - and face the consequences. [...] the original titles return to bookstores, revamped with 21st-century references (cell phones!).'" For me, it's all about 1987's Space Vampire , by series originator Edward Packard. "Do you eject the vampire through the airlock?"

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  1. These books predicted the Web by AEton · · Score: 4, Funny

    Every time I looked at Hypercard -- and HTML -- I thought "gosh, what an unnecessarily complicated Choose Your Own Adventure Book!"

    "If you look at hard core porn, turn to page 12.

    If you post to Slashdot, turn to page 14."

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    We recently had heard in the office over one of the Yellow Machine that's made by Anthology Solutions.
  2. EJECT! by iGN97 · · Score: 5, Funny
    "Do you eject the vampire through the airlock?"


    If yes is wrong, I don't want to be right.
  3. My Favorite One by wan-fu · · Score: 5, Funny

    [Page 3]
    To read the article on "Choose Your Own Adventure Books" turn to page 117.

    [Page 117]
    Nothing for you to see here. Please move along.

    You have died.
    The End

  4. Shamelessly stolen by LaurenBC · · Score: 5, Funny
    A Selection from the Recently Discovered Jack Kerouac Choose-Your-Own-Adventure, Bop Affirmation, c. 1955

    You're trudging in the riverbottom sand when zoooom, there goes a flatbed truck and you're suddenly on the back of the truck with two Nebraska farm boys and you're weeping, "Y-e-e-e-e-e-e-s," yes to the blue swing swing of the Bird, yes to Charlie Parker, that shimmering saxophone, yes to the original mind, yes to this uncompromising romp through the heartland, you who labored on the railroad with crimson sun on your back, you who know the palabra, you who look right into the blowin' breeze and cry and moan and shout

    AND...

    a. Discover a rainbow.
    b. Go off to pick oranges with the Mexican girl.
    c. Sing in a rising crescendo, "Y-e-e-e-e-e-e-e-e-s."
    from Mcsweeny's
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    I don't need this, I've got a Master's Degree in folklore and mythology!
  5. Re:Fighting Fantasy by raehl · · Score: 4, Funny

    It was like D&D for people without friends!

    What's the other kind of D&D?

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    paintball