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Choose Your Own Adventure #153
Last Run
You are a young international ski-racer sent to the Dolomites by your aunt to investigate the murder of your uncle. Even before you complete your first run, you find yourself involved in dangerous international intrigue. Make your choices carefully, because each determines how your story ends.
117 pages, Mass Market Paperback
First published October 1, 1994
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R.A. Montgomery
156 books122 followersRaymond A. Montgomery (born 1936 in Connecticut) was an author and progenitor of the classic Choose Your Own Adventure interactive children's book series, which ran from 1979 to 2003. Montgomery graduated from Williams College and went to graduate school at Yale University and New York University (NYU). He devoted his life to teaching and education.
In 2004, he co-founded the Chooseco publishing company alongside his wife, fellow author/publisher Shannon Gilligan, with the goal of reviving the CYOA series with new novels and reissued editions of the classics.
He continued to write and publish until his death in 2014.
In 2004, he co-founded the Chooseco publishing company alongside his wife, fellow author/publisher Shannon Gilligan, with the goal of reviving the CYOA series with new novels and reissued editions of the classics.
He continued to write and publish until his death in 2014.
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December 1, 2023
Normally I'm not too hard on Choose Your Own Adventure books unless there's some sort of egregious error in page referrals or things are written in a way that makes no sense. This entry fails entirely for a different and heretofore unique reason: There are no good endings and on the way to all of the bad endings you have to read through a bunch of shit that's rendered pointless.
Here's the set-up: Your uncle has been murdered and your aunt has enlisted you to find out who killed him, but you're also super excited to have some fun skiing! If you're asking "Wait, what?" then you've had the same reaction I did to that revelation on the introductory WARNING!!! page. I'm not convinced that author R.A.Salvatore Montgomery is an actual human being, if he thinks that a relative's tragic death would be a great excuse for a vacation. (Montgomery might be an alien, it'd explain a lot.)
So you get to the hotel where you'll be relaxing and investigating a murder, where it turns out that you're surrounded by a bevvy of apparent spies and criminals. On one path you're given a dossier that has you turn to various pages to read profiles of these people vying for your attention and/or life, but they're all a complete waste of time because you never put the knowledge gained therein to use. You're also given an exposition dump on one path explaining what's happening that would make the reader think that it was on the way to a good ending where you beat the bad guys, but it's a complete waste of time because immediately afterward you hit either of two bad endings. In point of fact, nothing you learn about the illicit goings-on result in defeating the book's conspiracy, the choices you make based on the information you have at any given time often have the opposite effect from what you intended, and the very small number of endings (a pathetic seven) are entirely unpredictable from your decisions. Four endings end with your death (including two of the stupidest deaths in any book in the series), one with your getting kidnapped and presumably killed later, one with your reaching adulthood after agreeing to cooperate with a criminal conspiracy that you're never given a choice for (in a book series where the whole point is making choices) which ends in your being arrested, and the only non-horrible - yet still downbeat - ending where you're not sure whether you've done anything of value and the conspiracy might just keep going on unabated and kill you later on at its leisure. This must've been written during R.A.DeCandido Montgomery's Blue Period or something. What kid wants to read a book where they're the star that ends exclusively in death and failure? If only this had been one of the boring true-to-life sports entries in the CYOA series, it would've been an improvement.
The one bright side is that even though the book is garbage, it avoids Montgomery's usual painful tropes of aliens, bigfoot, non-white people using magic, and heavyhanded environmentalism.
Here's the set-up: Your uncle has been murdered and your aunt has enlisted you to find out who killed him, but you're also super excited to have some fun skiing! If you're asking "Wait, what?" then you've had the same reaction I did to that revelation on the introductory WARNING!!! page. I'm not convinced that author R.A.
So you get to the hotel where you'll be relaxing and investigating a murder, where it turns out that you're surrounded by a bevvy of apparent spies and criminals. On one path you're given a dossier that has you turn to various pages to read profiles of these people vying for your attention and/or life, but they're all a complete waste of time because you never put the knowledge gained therein to use. You're also given an exposition dump on one path explaining what's happening that would make the reader think that it was on the way to a good ending where you beat the bad guys, but it's a complete waste of time because immediately afterward you hit either of two bad endings. In point of fact, nothing you learn about the illicit goings-on result in defeating the book's conspiracy, the choices you make based on the information you have at any given time often have the opposite effect from what you intended, and the very small number of endings (a pathetic seven) are entirely unpredictable from your decisions. Four endings end with your death (including two of the stupidest deaths in any book in the series), one with your getting kidnapped and presumably killed later, one with your reaching adulthood after agreeing to cooperate with a criminal conspiracy that you're never given a choice for (in a book series where the whole point is making choices) which ends in your being arrested, and the only non-horrible - yet still downbeat - ending where you're not sure whether you've done anything of value and the conspiracy might just keep going on unabated and kill you later on at its leisure. This must've been written during R.A.
The one bright side is that even though the book is garbage, it avoids Montgomery's usual painful tropes of aliens, bigfoot, non-white people using magic, and heavyhanded environmentalism.
January 24, 2024
Es un poco aburrido y siempre te moris, haces algo y te moris, respiras y te envenenas. No me pareció muy entretenido
April 29, 2024
muy buen libro, lo ame
June 14, 2015
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Este libro estaba escondido por mi casa, lo encontré de pura casualidad. Quería leer algo rápido y los de este estilo (Elige tu propia aventura), se leen en poquísimo tiempo. Este libro tiene 19 años si no me equivoco, jaja.
La última carrera es el último libro de Elige tu propia aventura (62/62), pero obviamente uno no tiene que leerse los 61 para empezar con el 62, todos cuentan historias diferentes... leer más...
Este libro estaba escondido por mi casa, lo encontré de pura casualidad. Quería leer algo rápido y los de este estilo (Elige tu propia aventura), se leen en poquísimo tiempo. Este libro tiene 19 años si no me equivoco, jaja.
La última carrera es el último libro de Elige tu propia aventura (62/62), pero obviamente uno no tiene que leerse los 61 para empezar con el 62, todos cuentan historias diferentes... leer más...
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