• Iheartcheese@lemmy.world
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    3 months ago

    When I was like 7 my mom bought me a choose your own adventure book. I tried to read it cover to cover and was very confused.

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      3 months ago

      So if you read it cover to cover, what did you think the instructions were about? What about the “turn to page X” parts?

      I’m not judging - this is exactly the sort of oblivious thing I would’ve done as a kid too - but I’m curious how it happened.

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        3 months ago

        I specifically remember doing this with one of the goosebumps choose your own adventure. There was a good ending page that referenced nirvana (the idea not the band) and I read that thing end to end choosing both choices for everything. No page ever sent you to it. It was just a contrivance that you were sent to glance at while flipping through.