The Lost Jewels of Nabooti (Choose Your Own Adventure #4)

Loved how to reader gets to be involved in the story and make different choices for different outcomes. Like a mystery game where the reader feels more part of the story and has fun when their ending (based upon their choices) is revealed. Then the book can be read over and over multiple times until the desired ending is reached. What an innovative way to enjoy reading a book!

I completely forgot I had ordered this item. When it arrived, it was in much better condition than I had expected. I'm happy to have found it at a great price, and with a dependable seller. Thanks.

Purchased for my baby grand!! He’s an instant fan

Pretty much the only time I've been unable to finish a Choose Your Own Adventure book is when R.A. Montgomery has written it. This is one of those times. It's not only bad but also nonsensical and unsatisfying. Once in a while he writes a fun book, but more often than not he writes just slightly above incoherence.The Lost Jewels of Nabooti is the 10th in the series (4th in the reissues). It focuses on you trying to find said Jewels which have been stolen from your uncle and are said to be cursed. Most of the action takes place in Paris, Morocco, or various countries in Africa. My first read-through ended abruptly when it turned out my cousins who hired me (in Boston) were now in Morocco not only with the jewels but also as part of a secret society. Here are a couple of lines from this stupid ending: "We offer you membership in the International Tribe of Nabooti. This is an honor few people get- fewer still hear of." Haha, does this mean there are lots of members who don't know they're members? If I chose a different path it turns out my cousins' house is filled with traps that kill me. So that stinks.The art by Paul Granger, who did a lot of the early CYOAs, is pretty good. Lots of dynamic action though a few of the pictures look like they've been blown up. I noticed in one picture a character described as having no fingernails and no lines around the corners of his mouth had both. There might be other art inconsistencies but I couldn't bring myself to finish this thing to find them.R.A. Montgomerysms that I noticed in my brief read:He dedicated the book to his sons, I believe, Anson and Ramsey. In the book you might come across three of the narrator's friends. They are Anson, Ramsey, and --Beech Muzzwell!?Thankfully there's a picture to give me an idea of what a djellaba is. A 'scrosh' on the other hand I am still unfamiliar with.Montgomery's got beef with midgets. In my quick read I encountered two of them. One smiled evilly and had a knife in his hands. The other dressed like a child and blew me up with a fake dog.Continuity is non-existent. In one abrupt ending my cousins left me a note saying that it's all good, they found the jewels. If I choose the other path they're still looking. If you continue on that path your next decision either leads you to being kidnapped or to the jewels magically floating to you as chosen leader of peace and justice. So that's special. The thing about being kidnapped is it's done by one big, unarmed man with his bare hands. Somehow, you with a loaded gun, and a trained Interpol, agent also with a loaded gun, couldn't stop him. In fact in all the paths after you've opted to carry a gun lead to you never using or even mentioning it.If you get lead to any of the pages in the 100s your adventure's probably over.Sometimes the jewels are jewels, sometimes a character will go to the bathroom and magically find them all ground up, sometimes they're a symbol for people fighting for world peace, and sometimes 'they are where you find them -wherever you look'.Turn to one ending and all you'll get is 'Playing safe, aren't you? Double back, seek Raoul, but in the end, give up the chase for these fabled gems. You will never find them. TOO BAD. The End'. I think that was the final straw for me.Another ending, on the page after you decide to visit someone, has a terrorist bomb go off in a subway and kill you. Said terrorist has nothing to do with the plot. Or if he does, it's kept a secret from the reader.You can search for a Kurtz in the deep jungle. You however can't be Martin Sheen no matter which path you choose.

Daughter enjoyed this book, lots of ways to tell the stories and make it interactive. Good purchase.

Great story. Read a few times and still haven’t got to a successful end

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