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Choose Your Own Adventure #60
Vanished!
You and your friends Tony and Andrea set off in search of another friend, Jill, who has vanished in the Bermuda Triangle.
128 pages, Paperback
First published August 1, 1986
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July 5, 2020
La serie de Elige tu propia aventura es, literalmente, un clásico de nuestra infancia. He releído algunos, años después, y me parecen un poco cortos de miras, limitados en las posibilidades, pero cuando tenía 10 años cada uno de ellos era una maravilla lista para ser explorada hasta que hubiera dado todo lo que tenía dentro.
Al final siempre sabías que ibas a recorrer todos y cada uno de los caminos posibles. La emoción estaba, por tanto, en ganar y pasarte la historia al primer intento. Si no podías, pues nada, seguro que en el intento 18 acababas encontrando el camino. A veces los autores iban "a pillar", poniéndote los resultados buenos detrás de decisiones que eran claramente anómalas.
Recuerdo haber aprendido tanto palabras como hechos y datos en estos libros. No nadar contra la corriente cuando quieres llegar a tierra, dónde colocarse cuando un avión va a despegar, un montón de cosas interesantes y un montón de historias vividas, decenas por cada libro, que convirtieron a las serie en una colección fractal, donde cada vez podías elegir un libro nuevo entre los que ya tenías.
Llegué hasta el tomo 54 y dejé de tener interés por la serie, pero la serie siguió hasta superar los 180 títulos. Tal vez mis hijos quieran seguir el camino que yo empecé. Si quieres que lo sigan, pasa a la página 7.
Al final siempre sabías que ibas a recorrer todos y cada uno de los caminos posibles. La emoción estaba, por tanto, en ganar y pasarte la historia al primer intento. Si no podías, pues nada, seguro que en el intento 18 acababas encontrando el camino. A veces los autores iban "a pillar", poniéndote los resultados buenos detrás de decisiones que eran claramente anómalas.
Recuerdo haber aprendido tanto palabras como hechos y datos en estos libros. No nadar contra la corriente cuando quieres llegar a tierra, dónde colocarse cuando un avión va a despegar, un montón de cosas interesantes y un montón de historias vividas, decenas por cada libro, que convirtieron a las serie en una colección fractal, donde cada vez podías elegir un libro nuevo entre los que ya tenías.
Llegué hasta el tomo 54 y dejé de tener interés por la serie, pero la serie siguió hasta superar los 180 títulos. Tal vez mis hijos quieran seguir el camino que yo empecé. Si quieres que lo sigan, pasa a la página 7.
May 12, 2019
Found this old book and decided to check it out. I remember loving these books as a kid but I won’t lie, this one had way to many nonsensical endings. We started off looking for a missing friend in the Bermuda Triangle and before long the story goes off into really silly directions like being kidnapped by fish people, or aliens, or pirates, or ending up in the future on a colony on Mars. I don’t remember these books being this convoluted as a kid.
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June 18, 2012
Vanished! (Choose Your Own Adventure #60) by Deborah Lerme Goodman is about you and a pair of friends searching for another friend and her family who have gone missing in the Bermuda Triangle. It's a very fast-paced book with lots of choices and endings. Because of this your adventure sometimes abruptly ends with very little happening, but for the most part it's a varied and creative read with only one path leading to your missing friend and a whole lotta other paths leading to completely different storylines. A few of these storylines involve time travel, the lost island of Atlantis, radiating fogs, pirates, aliens, and you being used as shark bait. If you prefer a more linear tale than this might get irritating but I thought it was well-done and fun.
The author has also done a great job with continuity in this book. When you choose one path and a character disappears, choosing the other path explains what happened (or would've happened) and this explanation carries over from storyline to storyline. And the art by Frank Bolle is some of the most entertaining I've seen in these books. The only incongruity I noticed was in the written description of the Atlantis folk being a lot more ordinary than the drawings. But like I said, the artist has done a good job of making things entertaining.
The only disappointments I had while reading this were minor. A couple of times the book seemed to carry over an extra page just so a couple of extraneous sentences could be tacked on. The only reason I mention this is because I wish these pages had been used for more story. Also the art often makes your friend Andrea look like a boy, which threw me off at first since it never states the narrator is a girl so I assumed the drawings of Andrea were the narrator and vice-versa. And a couple endings have you waiting around for the coast guard to tell you what happened. Dull. Overall my complaints are pretty nit-picky and this is a good read, especially for kids.
The author has also done a great job with continuity in this book. When you choose one path and a character disappears, choosing the other path explains what happened (or would've happened) and this explanation carries over from storyline to storyline. And the art by Frank Bolle is some of the most entertaining I've seen in these books. The only incongruity I noticed was in the written description of the Atlantis folk being a lot more ordinary than the drawings. But like I said, the artist has done a good job of making things entertaining.
The only disappointments I had while reading this were minor. A couple of times the book seemed to carry over an extra page just so a couple of extraneous sentences could be tacked on. The only reason I mention this is because I wish these pages had been used for more story. Also the art often makes your friend Andrea look like a boy, which threw me off at first since it never states the narrator is a girl so I assumed the drawings of Andrea were the narrator and vice-versa. And a couple endings have you waiting around for the coast guard to tell you what happened. Dull. Overall my complaints are pretty nit-picky and this is a good read, especially for kids.
September 9, 2016
My parents still have my old copy haha
April 18, 2011
Adventure #60 of the 'Choose your own adventure' series, Vanished!... in these books the reader gets to be the central character by choosing what path the tale follows through a variety of endings...
July 6, 2014
Some of these endings are total bullshit. How am I supposed to know that a hurricane will immediately appear beneath my plane just because I don't want to time travel?
Also, the "good" ending path sucks. Better to get murdered by pro-slavery mermen!
Also, the "good" ending path sucks. Better to get murdered by pro-slavery mermen!
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