I don't have much patience for these as an adult, but loved them as a kid. Trying to clear them off my TBR pile, whcih has grown so large it's almost frightening. Stine wrote well with his wording choice as I followed down one journey. Having Indiana Jones at the time added in, especially considering it was about adventures and dangers and treasures and all that jazz, was a worthy touch for the decade it was written in. The choices are clever and the adventure fine, but again it's annoying to end one journey and forget the previous pages to try again where you made a 'wrong turn.' If they expect the reader to start all over again from the first page, then argh, really now? No age is that determined for long! ( )

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