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You Are a Monster
The reader is kidnapped by an evil scientist, taken to his laboratory and transformed into a monster! Can the reader find a way to reverse the fiendish experiment--or remain a monster forever? The reader's choices decide his or her fate!
128 pages, Paperback
First published September 1, 1988
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About the author
Edward Packard
169 books125 followersEdward Packard attended and graduated from both Princeton University and Columbia Law School. 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 "Sugarcane Island", but it was not actually published as the first entry in the Choose Your Own Adventure Series. In 1979, the first book to be released in the series was "The Cave of Time", a fantasy time-travel story that remained in print for many years. Eventually, one hundred eighty-four Choose Your Own Adventure books would be published before production on new entries to the series ceased in 1998. Edward Packard was the author of many of these books, though a substantial number of other authors were included as well.
In 2005, Choose Your Own Adventure books once again began to be published, but none of Edward Packard's titles have yet been included among the newly-released books.
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. In 1979, the first book to be released in the series was "The Cave of Time", a fantasy time-travel story that remained in print for many years. Eventually, one hundred eighty-four Choose Your Own Adventure books would be published before production on new entries to the series ceased in 1998. Edward Packard was the author of many of these books, though a substantial number of other authors were included as well.
In 2005, Choose Your Own Adventure books once again began to be published, but none of Edward Packard's titles have yet been included among the newly-released books.
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February 5, 2023
Definitely a great book type for kids that are not fans of reading. So parents if u want your offspring to embrace reading, this series is definitely a way to go.
Its this kind of gamebook where u create your own story. It mesmerized me when i was a little kiddo and it was great to recapture those moments when adult.
Its this kind of gamebook where u create your own story. It mesmerized me when i was a little kiddo and it was great to recapture those moments when adult.
January 11, 2021
This is a really cool and quick read.
June 19, 2015
I read this book aloud with my kids. It was sooooo duuuuumb that pretty soon we all were just making fun of it, and skipping huge swathes of pointless babbling text just to get to the end. It took something like NINE pages of boring, repetitive, exhausting LAME backstory just to get to the very first choice. The lack of choices offered in this 'Choose' your own adventure quickly became a running joke. We couldn't quite tell if the villain was intentionally or unintentionally comical. Also, pretty much every one of the 13 (only 13 endings, whaaat?) was some sort of absurdly depressing way to die or live miserably ever after. Like becoming a squirrel, or a caveman's pet. (Or was it a lumberjack's pet? We can't remember and who freaking cares anyway; this book was far too dumb to go back and find out!)
August 16, 2020
Fun premise: you are kidnapped and used in a crazy science experiment against your will which will turn you into a monster unless you can find a cure. But this is a weak entry in the series.
This is a Choose Your Own Adventure book, but it’s a book in which you do not actually make many choices. The book is mostly “turn to this page, turn to that page.” Considering it’s an Edward Packard entry, this is quite disappointing because his entries are among my favorites. Also this book has illustrations by Judith Mitchell which are not my favorite in the series.
Anyway, if you want to actually make a lot of choices in a CYOA book, I would either save this one until you are desperate for more or pass on it altogether. :(
This is a Choose Your Own Adventure book, but it’s a book in which you do not actually make many choices. The book is mostly “turn to this page, turn to that page.” Considering it’s an Edward Packard entry, this is quite disappointing because his entries are among my favorites. Also this book has illustrations by Judith Mitchell which are not my favorite in the series.
Anyway, if you want to actually make a lot of choices in a CYOA book, I would either save this one until you are desperate for more or pass on it altogether. :(
April 29, 2011
'Choose your own adventure' series #84, You are a monster... in these books the reader gets to be the central character by choosing what path the tale follows through a variety of endings...
July 9, 2013
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.
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