The Race Forever

The Choose Your Own Adventure series offered an option every few pages to choose how the story would continue. According to your preference, you would follow its instructions by turning to the appropriate page of the book as indicated by your choice. This was a popular and revolutionary idea when the series was first launched in the early 1980s, driving it to incredible sales levels for many years until it was overshadowed by variants on the idea that took the concept to more elaborate lengths (e.g. Fighting Fantasy) and especially by other interactive media.

The plot: you're competing in a two-race rally, at the end of which you can compete in the first one again if you wish, etc.

Observations: the ideal book to be reading as a child show more when a parent urges you to sleep and you promise "as soon as I'm done this story". If you make the correct choices, this story will never end. Technically it breaks the story's premise to do either race a second time, but who was going to let that stop them? There are six or seven successful finishes to each of the two races, so it's possible to make different choices in a repeat race than you did the previous time and still get through it again.

Personal memories: I had to borrow and read my cousin's copy, burning with jealousy. It was a long time before I could track down my own. show less

I have read this book and I find it interesting for people who likes adventure books. There are a lot of those types of books that you can choose your own adventure but I find this one the most suitable for teenagers. That is because you can do whatever you want with the story. So you choose your own routes that you want to race in, it also has you own choice of cars. Which is mostly interesting for readers. I like it because when I started reading it from the beginning it attracted me to complete it.

A plethora of choices and action packed.