The first such book that Edward Packard wrote in the Choose Your Own Adventure series was titled "Sugarcane Island", but it was not actually published as the first entry in the Choose Your Own Adventure Series. He was one of the first authors to explore the idea of gamebooks, in which the reader is inserted as the main character and makes choices about the direction the story will go at designated places in the text. The first such book that Edward Packard wrote in the Choose Your Own Adventure series was titled Edward Packard attended and graduated from both Princeton University and Columbia Law School. The art though is excellent retro-style comic book goodness Dave Cockrum is known for his work on the X-men, and his style perfectly fits the book.moreĮdward Packard attended and graduated from both Princeton University and Columbia Law School. It ends on a "to be continued" note when it probably should have just stuck with training. Your training is basic, and you also attempt duties as a space hawk if you succeed in it. The story is good, but suffers from the attempt at packing two separate tales into one slender book. Your decisions will determine whether you die in the attempt, wash out of the program, or achieve your goals. You're a trainee learning to fly one of a twelve new FTL ships. It ends on a "to be continued" note wh Decent for a choose-your-own adventure, with great comic-style art by the legendary Dave Cockrum.
Clunky prose and weak plot aside, this felt like a con job.moreĭecent for a choose-your-own adventure, with great comic-style art by the legendary Dave Cockrum. When I've gone back and read other books from my childhood, like the Narnia series, I've been surprised to find even more depth there than I remember and intrigued by what I clued in to as a child-but this just made me feel like I was duped. I remember thinking a whole world of possibilities was inside each time I picked a choose your own adventure up, but there were really only a few choices in this book, most of which just funneled you back into the path regardless of what you picked. When I've gone back and read other books from my childhood, like the Narnia series, I've b I found this in a toy trunk at my cabin and picked it up to kill an hour, and was severely disappointed with how little actual choosing went on in these books. I found this in a toy trunk at my cabin and picked it up to kill an hour, and was severely disappointed with how little actual choosing went on in these books.
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