User:Milowent/Choose Your Own Adventure


 * (25 March 2010). The Origin of the Choose Your Own Adventure books, Cavalcade of Awesome (blog)
 * (11 April 2009). ChooseCo: how not to reprint a series, Epinions (Very thorough and researched analysis of the reprint series)
 * "Discussion of the reprints of Choose Your Own Adventure books by ChooseCo has been surprisingly limited among collectors of the series, presumably because they believe ChooseCo's work will not reduce the value of older copies of reprinted titles. The sole complaint that one can notice from discussions of ChooseCo's work is that not a single book by Edward Packard, the most prolific and for many, the best Choose Your Own Adventure writer, has been reprinted. they tend to argue that it was Packard who invented the concept of Choose Your Own Adventure and that Montgomery is trying to whitewash Packard's contributions from history by re-numbering reprinted titles."
 * "The truth is that an observer of ChooseCo can and should actually make a much more serious and general criticism of the choice of titles to reprint. Of the twenty-nine titles out of 184 reprinted, all but four are by R.A Montgomery, his wife Shannon Gilligan, or his son Anson."
 * "R.A. Montgomery and Shannon Giligan have said in an interview they will reprint titles "that had been bestsellers and those we thought had special editorial merit". However, if one actually looks historically to see which titles were bestsellers, one sees that there is almost no correlation with those books that ChooseCo are reprinting."
 * "Amongst people who know the original series really well (in other words, serious fans), R.A. Montgomery and Shannon Gilligan are generally not well-respected authors, probably because their style was often incoherent and/or childish in a manner noticeably absent from most other Choose Your Own Adventure writers I have read. It is fair to say that Choose Your Own Adventure's initial success attracted writers more mature than Montgomery or Packard, and that these authors' books are more to the tastes of collectors than those of Montgomery or the children for whom the books are designed."