Tuesday, August 17, 2004
Tidying up in The Posh Library (as it seems delays mean I won't be going back to The Closed Library before I go on holiday) I see that the Fighting Fantasy books have been rereleased. Ahh, they formed a key part of my pre-teenage years. They scored over the wussier Choose Your Own Adventure books by realising that young children like lots of violence, as much as possible. Oh yes, SKILL, STAMINA, and LUCK, the roll of dice, Deathtrap Dungeon, the frankly terrifying House of Hell the only book to be set in the 'real world'... the increasing interweavving of plots between stories to try and encourage you to get them all... Creature of Havoc which made no sense at all... Great days.
