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Evasion by R.A. Montgomery

plaidbrarian's review against another edition

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5.0

This was my very favorite Choose Your Own Adventure book, hands-down. Which is weird, since I was totally terrified of most other mid-80s very-obviously-after-nuclear-war-American-dystopia stories, but I read and re-read this until it just about fell apart. Anyway, you're some sort of underage secret agent from one of the three smaller nations that the USA was divided up into post-war, and you lead a mission into one of the other new countries, which is a totalitarian regime (you know this because they have the word "totalitarian" right there in their national motto; subtlety was never a staple of the CYOA series). Anyway, espionagey antics ensue, and you die in about every other ending. It was all kinds of rad.

remocpi's review

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4.0

La serie de Elige tu propia aventura es, literalmente, un clásico de nuestra infancia. He releído algunos, años después, y me parecen un poco cortos de miras, limitados en las posibilidades, pero cuando tenía 10 años cada uno de ellos era una maravilla lista para ser explorada hasta que hubiera dado todo lo que tenía dentro.
Al final siempre sabías que ibas a recorrer todos y cada uno de los caminos posibles. La emoción estaba, por tanto, en ganar y pasarte la historia al primer intento. Si no podías, pues nada, seguro que en el intento 18 acababas encontrando el camino. A veces los autores iban "a pillar", poniéndote los resultados buenos detrás de decisiones que eran claramente anómalas.
Recuerdo haber aprendido tanto palabras como hechos y datos en estos libros. No nadar contra la corriente cuando quieres llegar a tierra, dónde colocarse cuando un avión va a despegar, un montón de cosas interesantes y un montón de historias vividas, decenas por cada libro, que convirtieron a las serie en una colección fractal, donde cada vez podías elegir un libro nuevo entre los que ya tenías.
Llegué hasta el tomo 54 y dejé de tener interés por la serie, pero la serie siguió hasta superar los 180 títulos. Tal vez mis hijos quieran seguir el camino que yo empecé. Si quieres que lo sigan, pasa a la página 7.

mzjai117's review against another edition

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3.0

Reading these books as an adult is definitely different than reading them as a kid. After about 5 different endings I decided to quit. It was fun while it lasted but it feels very different now.

apostrophen's review against another edition

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4.0

Choose Your Own Adventure were my favourite books when I was nine and ten years old. I loved being "the hero" of the story, and I loved reading and re-reading the book, trying to find my way to every page. The copies I actually owned I would put little pencil marks on the pages I'd made it to, and little checks on the choices so I could go a different way next time through. I adored them, and checked out the ones I didn't have from the library over and over again (and kept track of which pages I'd found on a piece of paper).