{"id":48118,"date":"2014-11-14T19:21:50","date_gmt":"2014-11-15T02:21:50","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/hill-kleerup.org\/blog\/2014\/11\/14\/the-choose-your-own-adventure-guy-reaches-the-final-page.html"},"modified":"2014-11-14T19:21:50","modified_gmt":"2014-11-15T02:21:50","slug":"the-choose-your-own-adventure-guy-reaches-the-final-page","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/hill-kleerup.org\/blog\/2014\/11\/14\/the-choose-your-own-adventure-guy-reaches-the-final-page.html","title":{"rendered":"The "Choose Your Own Adventure" Guy Reaches the Final Page"},"content":{"rendered":"

R. A. Montgomery, author of many of the CYOA books, has passed away. In a world before easy access to computers, this was as close to individual interactive gaming as you could get.<\/p>\n

(Here's an equally fascinating look at the structure of such books: http:\/\/samizdat.cc\/cyoa\/<\/a> .)<\/p>\n

I've always had a hankering to write one of these things, but I doubt I could do as well as +<\/span>DeAnna Knippling<\/a><\/span> and her Zombie Apocalpyse<\/i> book (apparently, sadly, out of print).<\/p><\/blockquote>\n

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\nChoose Your Own Adventure – Lawyers, Guns & Money : Lawyers, Guns & Money<\/a><\/span>
\nI loved these books when I was a wee one. I remember riding my bike up to the library almost daily in the Summertime and checking these books out, then riding to the park and spending hours at a time with them. In case you haven’t seen it, this is a great analysis of the form and structure of …\n<\/p><\/blockquote>\n

View on Google+<\/a><\/span><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

R. A. Montgomery, author of many of the CYOA books, has passed away. In a world before easy access to computers, this was as close to individual interactive gaming as you could get. (Here's an equally fascinating look at the structure of such books: http:\/\/samizdat.cc\/cyoa\/ .) 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