Grown-Up "Choose Your Own Adventure" Books

[skb12172]

Search "Click Your Poison" at Amazon. There are at least two out, currently. Here's the link for one…

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[Rod]

Are these like the old Tiajuana Bibles?

[skb12172]

What are those? I think they are an adult version of the old Choose Your Own Adventure books for kids, which were popular in the 70s and 80s.

[Kommander]

In this context adult =/= sex but if that's what your after it's out there. I'm not sure I could do a choose your own adventure story in book form now given how much better computer games handle that kind of thing now.

[Denis]

What are those? I think they are an adult version of the old Choose Your Own Adventure books for kids, which were popular in the 70s and 80s.

I believe Tiajuana Bibles were pre-internet pr0n, and Rod is pulling your leg.

The choose your own adventure books of the 80s had pages which were numbered continuously, but were not to be read straight through; each page ended with a choice of some kind "... you are standing in front of a door. If you choose to open it, turn to page AB, if you choose to leave it alone, turn to page XY." I only read one, called IIRC "Island of the lizard king". It annoyed me so much that I just read it from cover to cover, then mentally reconstructed the possible "adventures", which were all pretty lame.

[Aesop]

"Literature" by the D&D crowd.

[randy]

As I recall, they were much more entertaining when read as a group in the Student Union after/during consumption of multiple pitchers of beer.

[Jericho941]

I hated those books as a kid.

[Kommander]

All too often instead of being Choose Your Own Adventure it's was Choose Your Own Improbable Yet Stupid Deaths.

[dfwmtx]

I love those as a kid. There was another series called "Time Machine" which had stories with a more historical bent. Slightly educational too.
There were versions for the D&D crowd, Lone Wolf and another one with a wizard. I read those too.