As a kid did you read the "Choose Your Own Adventure" books?

[Lex]

I didn't, but my brother did and he *loved* them. He's got an 11 year old son now and I just won several of those "Choose Your Own Adventure" books on E-bay to give my nephew at Christmas. His dad is thrilled.

Did you read them and enjoy them?

[Mojambo]

1. I think I read every single one.

And I read them the right way. Never held a page or flipped back.

I was hardcore, man.

[Breeze54]

2. I read them with my sons and they loved them!

I never saw them when I was a kid. I think they came out in the 70's or 80's?

Boy, am I getting old! :P I loved reading them with them though! ;)

[Lex]

3. Yes, start date was in 1979

Choose Your Own Adventure is a series of children's gamebooks first published by Bantam Books from 1979-1998 and currently being re-published by Chooseco. Each story is written from a second-person point of view, with the reader assuming the role of the protagonist and making choices that determine the main character's actions in response to the plot and its outcome.

The Choose Your Own Adventure series was one of the most popular children’s series of all time, with over 250 million books in print in at least 38 languages. The series has been noted in old and recent press for its unusual defiance of gendered writing for children (due to its second-person narration) and for its appeal with reluctant readers. The series has been used in classrooms from elementary school to college. At the advent of the Internet age, the series was used frequently in curricula focused on explaining the interactivity of the world wide web to young children.

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Choose_Your_Own_Adventure

[twenty4blackbirds]

4. Yes

My brother introduced it to me. Then he dabbled in Dungeons & Dragons. Now I am into Neverwinter Nights (the first, not "2"). My game addiction is book-based :-)

However, my most frequent ending to those books is along the lines "You are dead". Then again, so are my NWN games...

[Dragon Turtle]

5. Yes,

back in 1984 when I was 12.

[Speck Tater]

6. My three kids read them all, but when I was a kid,

the cave was too dark to do much reading, so we just ran around outside chasing dinosaurs with a stick.

[Clintonista2]

7. Yep, I used to read the "goosebumps" versions though

I would cheat :D

[LWolf]

8. No, but my sons did.

There were none when I was at that age. ;)

[ElizabethDC]

9. Yep, a little bit. Though I was never totally "hooked." n/t

[Wheezy]

10. I read a few

And I really liked them. I was a kid when they came out, but I didn't discover them until I was in high school and worked at a children's bookstore. I read a few then so I knew what they were about, and thought it was a great concept.

Congrats on your ebay win!