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The Cave of Time (Choose Your Own Adventure #1)
You're The Star! 40 ThrillingEndings!
Will You Become TrappedIn Time ?
Youare hiking in Snake Canyon when you find yourselflost in the strange, dimly lit Cave of Time.Gradually you can make out two passageways. One curvesdownward to the right; the other leads upward tothe left. It occurs to you that the one leadingdown may go to the past and the one leading up maygo to the f...more
Will You Become TrappedIn Time ?
Youare hiking in Snake Canyon when you find yourselflost in the strange, dimly lit Cave of Time.Gradually you can make out two passageways. One curvesdownward to the right; the other leads upward tothe left. It occurs to you that the one leadingdown may go to the past and the one leading up maygo to the f...more
Paperback, 128 pages
Published
August 1st 1982
by Skylark
(first published July 1979)
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This wasn't the first Choose Your Own Adventure book I read, but as soon as I discovered that this was a series, I wanted to go back to the beginning and read them in order (even though they are not in any way dependent on reading sequentially since they are independent adventures). In this book, you as the protagonist get to choose whether you go left or right in a mysterious cave, and one of the forks leads to the past and the other one leads to the future. Of course as a science fiction nerd...more
This was the first of a new genre of book, namely the game book, though it came out under the title 'Choose Your Own Adventure'. I remember getting this book and the next book in the series for Christmas one year, and I was pretty much all over them, especially since I loved the adventure games that I had on my dad's computer (this was back in the early 80s). The period in which is was released saw a change in the way that games were being played in that there was a gradual movement away from b...more
Jul 08, 2010
Michael
rated it
4 of 5 stars
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review of another edition
Recommends it for:
young people, adventurers, daydreamers
Recommended to Michael by:
Seth Klein
Shelves:
science-fiction,
choose-your-own-adventure
This was the first of the original "choose your own adventure" books, and I read it not long after it came out. It was an idea whose time had come (role playing games were becoming established as well) - that the reader of the book could become the protagonist and affect the outcome through the choices they made. The books were wildly popular, especially among the target age group (though older folks read them also), and the format has been used and modified many times since. Today, it probably...more
First in the series, and a decent book. Unfortunately, it suffers from too-many-endings syndrome, an ailment a lot of the early books had. There simply aren't enough pages for the author to flesh out very compelling storylines. On the other hand, these books have a larger variety of events to take part in. It all comes down to what you prefer. Personally, I find the 20 endings standard found in the Give Yourself Goosebumps series to be the best compromise between choice and plot.
The quality of w...more
The quality of w...more
You might think, "oh, a time traveling cave, how could this possibly end badly?" well brother, are you wrong! it can end badly in so, so many ways. Like with aliens! or dinosaurs! Time travel is tricky.
This was the first Choose Your Own Adventure story to be published in the series, and I love it as much now as I did when I first had it read to me. The tone and storyline are well done, and carry along as expertly as any other gamebook that I have read. It is a treat to read through this book again and again, and the fact that it contains more decisions than most of the other Choose Your Own Adventure books increases its readability very nicely. This is an excellent, highly original story.
I remember these as a kid but, it's great to relive them a bit and to start from the beginning, of course!
So many great and not so great possibilities on the stories that you'll almost never get bored and always want to read every possible outcome.
If you've never read a single on of these books, pick one up in any order. You will have a blast reading it to kids and letting them decide what happens as well.
Give it a read!
So many great and not so great possibilities on the stories that you'll almost never get bored and always want to read every possible outcome.
If you've never read a single on of these books, pick one up in any order. You will have a blast reading it to kids and letting them decide what happens as well.
Give it a read!
Mar 04, 2009
Maggie
rated it
5 of 5 stars
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review of another edition
Shelves:
miscellaneous,
2nd-grade
This book is really good. It has a bunch of different endings for you to choose from. Some of them are sad and some of them end happy. You have to be careful which ending you pick so you don't end up in a monsters mouth or in cave man time! But if you are careful, you might end up at home, safe and sound. I'm really excited to read another Choose Your Own Adventure book.
Wow, I was all over these books, there was always some element of mystery and suspense, but no matter how many times you retread the book you never felt quite like you read the whole story. They were always a little generic to appeal to the lowest common denominator of young reader.
But what a great new genre of a game book. So glad I had these books in my childhood.
But what a great new genre of a game book. So glad I had these books in my childhood.
Jul 20, 2009
Idle Hippo
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3 of 5 stars
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Shelves:
childhood_delight
dulu waktu kecil gak terlalu cocok baca buku ginian, gak tau kenapa. males aja loncat-loncat bacanya. jadi dulu bacanya maen hantam saja alias ngurut dari halaman 1, 2, 3 dst tanpa peduli dengan pilihan yang diberikan pengarangnya
bodo amat! buku buku gw, suka2 gw dong bacanya *dulu mikirnya gitu*
sekarang malah jadi penasaran gimana rasanya baca buku model kek ginian :D
bodo amat! buku buku gw, suka2 gw dong bacanya *dulu mikirnya gitu*
sekarang malah jadi penasaran gimana rasanya baca buku model kek ginian :D
I read this as a child, and it forever changed my perception of books. While for today's kids, Harry Potter was their inspiration to read, mine was The Cave of Time. A "choose-your-own-adventure" book that had me going back, re-reading pages and sections many times, so I could recapture the storyline and dive myself into a new adventure.
From what I can see, based on the covers, I read most of the first 42 books in the "Choose Your Own Adventure" series, originally published between 1979 and 1985. That's using this series numbering. (At least as of this date, 06/02/2012).
I read these in elementary school. I've lost count of how many I actually read in the series. Pretty interesting concept although I typically checked out all of my possibilities before deciding on a course of action. As a 10 year old, I left little to chance.
This book looks really good. I asked my mom and said,''What mystery have you read.'' and she said I read a series of choose your own adventure and I looked it up and i found it and i read what it is about. It sounded really good to me. I hope this is a good book!
I read tonnes of these choose-you-own-adventure books as a kid, but I can't recall which ones they were. We definitely need to buy lots of them for our kids (and maybe us).
udah lama banget baca buku ini. Senang bacanya --biarpun loncat-loncat-- karena seruy dan degdegan dengan hasil yang tak terduga. Kadang bete karena akhirnya menyedihkan. secara umum... sebenarnya buku ini sedikit bernuansa "horor". Sampulnya gitu...
A great IDEA for a book -- which is why I bought it (and one other in the series)... just to see how it was done. The execution is not so hot, too simplistic, too many "one false move and you die" endings, no depth at all.
A lot of these endings are delightfully morbid. So far I've been sent to my death by the cave philosopher as punishment for being sassy and extremely unsuccessful at saving the Titanic.
Just remember, I was probably no more than 7yrs old when I read these. And then, I believed they were magical. So, they will remain there, if only in my mind.
I loved these books as a kid and would still read them. They are great for any age. Imagination is wonderful!
When you find these books in your mom's attic, do not reread them. They're not as good as you remember.
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The scene with the tundra and the cold, distant sun still haunts my dreams to this day.
couldnt get enough of the choose your own adventure books as a child!
Aug 07, 2011
allison
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hahaha read this on the beach with my cousin. it was entertaining
The first Choose Your Own Adventure book... and still one of the best
These books were such a wonderful and engaging idea for a kid- I loved reading them!
Oct 13, 2010
Joseph Levesque
rated it
4 of 5 stars
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review of another edition
Shelves:
children-lit
I remember LOVING these books when I was a child...
I LOVE THESE BOOKS :D but I always die D':
Best book series ever. Choose wisely
I always end up dying in these books.
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Edward 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.
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