Master of Karate

Choose Your Own Adventure #108

by Richard Brightfield, Edward Packard

Journeying to Japan to take part in a martial arts contest sponsored by a national electronics corporation, the reader learns about the company's subliminal advertising techniques, which could take control of the media of the free world

Genres: Choose Your Own Adventure, Gamebooks, Childrens

113 pages, Paperback

First published November 1, 1990

Reviews

[Nate · Rating 2 out of 5]

Ridiculous.

[Mark Austin · Rating 3 out of 5]

Ah, Choose Your Own Adventure, that paper bridge between that 5th grade fantasy map (see my Hobbit review) and my life-changing discovery of Dungeons & Dragons in the 7th grade.

Some of them were great, some punishing, some arbitrary, but they revealed to me for the first time that I could make choices and that they had immediate effect the course on my (fictional) reality. For a kid whose home life felt largely hopeless and inescapable, the empowerment of making my own way by the power of my own choices and facing consequences traceable directly to my decisions, wow!

While day-to-day reality seemed to deal out arbitrary, unpredictable punishments regardless of my actions, here was a place where I could experiment and learn and grow in safety and if I was punished there was always a why.

[Sheila Read · Rating 5 out of 5]

the adventures that I went through when I was bored I just read these books over and over again you would never get to the end of the story.