Regrettably, this was a short-lived genre that was soon supplanted by video games, but The Lone Wolf series by Joe Dever as well the incomparable Fighting Fantasy series by Ian Livingstone and Steve Jackson brings back fond memories. I can fondly recall the proverbial 'five-fingered bookmark' as you grip the book in multiple sections, thus enabling a back step, should your ill-fated choice prove fatal. The 'Choose Your Own Adventure' books sold millions of copies in the 1980s and as a child of the 80s, I devoured them. No matter how you enter the dungeon, you will come out changed. It’s a fun trip into nostalgia for some and a new trek into the awesome world of D&D and the Forgotten Realms for others. #7 Go pick up Matt Forbeck’s Escape the Underdark. You trip, hit your head, and wake up back in first period Algebra. If you have better things to do like count tree rings or twist straws and make them do that pop thing, go to #6. Are you ready to make all the choices? Become a master of your fate? Decide your destiny? Go to #4. If you are still trying to figure out what end of the sword to hold… Go to #6. Bound by chains and surrounded by a scary bunch of inmates, you need to decide what to do… Will you try to escape? Will you fight for your freedom? If you want to begin your journey, go to #7. You’re stuck in a dungeon, deep underground. If you’re actually like, kinda-sorta boring, go to #6. Did you grow up on Choose Your Own Adventure books? Did you ever play Dungeons and Dragons? Do you like fantasy books/ games/ movies? If you answered yes to any of these questions, go to #2. If this is getting too scary for you, go to #6. Are you ready to encounter drows, gnomes, orcs, dwarfs, goblins, and huge hairy spiders? Yes? Continue to #5. Do you like adventure? Are you a treasure hunter trapped in an average Jane or Joe’s body? Go to #3.

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