Let’s try this! How long time would you need to get the book @JayPea @sircarolyn ? Is a start one week from now too early? @MrColdStream has told me privately that he is in and very excited to start!
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I think this is a funny idea, for sure. Not quite sure I get how it would work on the forum, but I’d be willing to give it a shot.
As to the original question for this thread…
I have, I believe, all the Who books of this ilk, the 6 Find Your Fate/Make Your Own Adventure books, the 16 Decide Your Destiny books, the two Choose the Future books, heck even the 2 FASA game books, though admittedly there are a couple made-for-charity ones I never got.
I’ve always treated these as Doctor Who fiction, and only considered each book “read” if I’ve gone through them at least 5 times. What do I think? I think they’re entertaining enough, and fun to have on the shelf.
Back to the recent question…sure @Tian - I’m good at being talked into doing wacky things, so why not?
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I have tried asking the author for promision to post the story but got no answer. I think that it could be fun to try at least 
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I mean I said ‘don’t have’ but honestly I need to check if I in fact DO have it on my kindle. But a week from now should be fine either way
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Privately - but then you share it publicly. 
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Topic created! We start on Nov 1. Let’s do this!
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Mods! Mods! Where can I report @Tian for libel?
Kidding, kidding 
Well, seemingly as I have no will of my own, I am in on this!
Now, let’s see what @deltaandthebannermen comes up with to force me into getting that Peladon badge…
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Thank you for reaching out to the mods. I have reviewed your complaint and found that Tian has done nothing wrong.
/Tian and the other mods
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I’ve ordered the book! Let’s gooooooo (as soon as it delivers)
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The fact there is a badge and the chance to be known as MrColdStream of Peladon should surely be enough incentive!
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I think I’ve read this one once before and it’s actually in a box in the garage. I’ll need to check when I get home.
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These three words were all I needed to hear! I’m sold now!
(I’m sorry, Mrs ColdStream…)
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Yeah I’d be able to get it in a week I think
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I wonder what counts as actually finishing the story 
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‘Winning’, I guess.
I remember though that there was a Choose Your Own Adventure called Horror at High Ridge I had as a child (in fact, I think I’ve still got a copy) where the main characters could die in any number of gruesome ways (often depicted with illustrations!). Those were the best endings for that book.
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This explains so much 
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Totally read that as “in a box in the garbage” 
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Found my old copy of Second Skin, so decided to go through it as my reading for today!
Second Skin - 5/10 (Spoilers)
I’m going to talk about my problems with the way the CYOA side of things is handled in a bit, but as an actual story I really enjoyed this!
The idea of an exo-parasite a creature that can take over humans by forming a glassy second skin over our own, giving us pure silver eyes in the process, is firstly a really fun alien concept, almost an organic cyberman, and secondly a really fun and horrifying alien visual. The idea that they were also able to take over so many people because someone wanted to profit of an alien discovery because of the earth’s failing ozone layer, also just a really solid setup, I love it!
Unfortunately the CYOA aspect does get in the way a bit. On the bright side, there’s no ‘god-childing’, all the decisions you can make are actual decisions your character can make. On the negative side…
The short nature of a lot of the options means that information and characters have to be contained to short scenes and not affect things so if you miss them, you’re not missing out on anything. In my read-through I met the person who invented Second Skin, but after the scene were I did and the exposition that gave me, neither he nor the origin of second skin were referenced again.
There was also some strange inconsistancies, the first and second time I took a Zoob I was completely fine, but the third it talks about be staggering out of it, and then once in the story the choice that I made just didn’t connect with the next scene at all, it felt like I was just completely missing a scene that was meant to come between them but no, it was telling me to go there.
My final gripe is also just to do with the way the options are presented to me sometimes, there’s a lot of Ten turning to the reader and going “We have option A and option B, what option do you want to do?”. If it happened once, sure, fine, but when it’s happening 5+ times in reading a 15 minute book, it does just take you out of it.
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