Master of Tae Kwon Do: #102

Избери своето приключение! #2

by Richard Brightfield

One day you come home from school and find two CIA agents waiting for you. They want you to go to Korea to pose as a student of tae kwon do. Your mission as an undercover agent will be to locate your friend Ling, the girl who taught you kung fu in China last year. She's one of the CIA's top agents in the Far East - and she's missing. It's an assignment you can't refuse!

Genres: Gamebooks, Choose Your Own Adventure, Fiction, Childrens, Fantasy

Hardcover

First published April 28, 1990

Reviews

[Goose]

i read all 19 endings, one of which made no sense for the supposed setting of this book, and i gotta say for being a "master" of tae kwon do i think i only tae kwon doed like twice total

[Yz · Rating 3 out of 5]

I died a lot.

[David]

Despite being a "master" of tae kwon do, I sure seemed to die a lot.

[TwitchyRedPen · Rating 2 out of 5]

I got Master of Kung Fu, and its followup Master of Tae Kwon Do, from library discards for a quarter apiece. I'm reviewing them both at once. You can read them individually; TKD has you playing the same character and trying to meet up with a Chinese friend who helped you in KF -- but other than a reference or two to having visited a city before, or your other friend from KF saying to count him out of this adventure, it doesn't make continued reference to the past. They're both "you are caught up with international secret-agent/ninja intrigue."

Tae Kwon Do is definitely the better of the two. Kung Fu is the more "product of its time, yikes" -- Scene of not wanting to eat the food because it's monkey brains and live eels and roast beetles, magic Chinese hypnosis/ancient Chinese mysticism, cringey non-native English dialogue. Tae Kwon Do is a bit "all South Korean people would do anything for Americans" and uses the word Oriental, but scores points for allusions to Korean/Japanese/Chinese intertwined history.

I know these are silly fiction books for 10-year-olds, I'm not asking for whole history lessons -- just looking to not have to remediate a kid's view of a country after a book set there.

KF, 16 choices, 16 endings. TKD, 21 choices, 19 endings. KF has one ending you can reach a few different ways; TKD has a few options that will send you down the same branches -- not forcing you into a loop, just that if you do X now or X later it will lead down the same road.

In general TKD felt like it might be aimed a little older and that it was better mapped.

[Matt Hatch · Rating 5 out of 5]

First chose your own book I ever read. The very idea of a chose your own adventure book blow my mind. I got this from the book machine at my elementary school. If you never had a book machine as a kid you missed out. For like 50 cents you could by a book from a re purposed vending machine. I doubt this book would hold up to a adult rereading.

[JKR · Rating 3 out of 5]

This was an interesting read. The multiple story threads reveal different facets of the full story, which the reader is unaware of at the outset. However, among the several story threads I finished, I never did get to learn any Tae Kwon Do.

[Nolwethu · Rating 3 out of 5]

There is more to an adventure that
needs to be discovered

[Sgtdawkins · Rating 1 out of 5]

Having both mastered Tae Kwon Do and read "Master of Tae Kwon Do", I can say that I prefer the former.

[Alisha · Rating 3 out of 5]

the first of many of these books for me while i'm holed up at home with pneumonia. I read EVERY ending for this book and it made me realize why I like these things.

[Theo · Rating 2 out of 5]

it was ok. Not the best choose your own adventure ever, but.......................