Do You like book Flight From The Dark (1985)?
I loved these as a child. I remember when I for the first time entered the "prohibited" section of my small local library (allowed only for older kids) where lot´s of fantasy and horror books were stored. I was browsing the shells and suddenly completely worn out Lone Wolf books were looking at me. At that time I had no idea that the books are actually a gamebook or what the gamebooks are.I remember how I was killed million times during the series. How I didn´t want to turn few pages back after my death, because I considered it as cheating. How I never did continue reading after my unfortunate death, however, everytime I started with "next episode". I remember that the only time I have ever really beaten one of the books was because I used my special ability that actually wasn´t on my character list, and I would swear to God I had chosen it! ;DThese books bring back nice,adventurous and thrilling memories. I think it was maybe 2 years ago, I tried to read some of them again. And even though now I don´t consider them as well written, I had hell of a fun with them anyway. So I really want to thank to Mr. Joe Dever for such an amazing reading all kids could wish for! And not only kids! :)
—Baranica
The story is full of clichés and missed a few opportunities to develop some characters or some settings, as such there is no real attachment to the story. Yet.Decision wise the book is relatively easy and the right and wrong choices are more or less straightforward.However there is an interesting sense of danger, and you can feel Lone Wolf being in the middle of a blitzkrieg. It makes you want to know more of the story, and it even feels exciting to restart from the beginning after a death, allowing the reading to make new choices hence new discoveries.
—Thomas
I recently saw a link that the Lone Wolf adventure/book/games were online and free to download. There are also platforms developed that are available on the website that take care of all the manual game recording for you. http://www.projectaon.org/staff/eric/. I remember this adventure/game/book being super-hard when I read it back in 1980-something, and dying almost from the start - a lot. I decided to check it out again. Nothing has changed. This adventure is damn hard to complete. I was finally successful after 10 tries. Now I remember why I didn't buy the second one. It's too hard. I'll carry my character over to the second book and see if they improved on the game mechanics. It was fun trying to make it through the entire book without dying though. That's my new challenge. Try to make it through at least one without dying at all so I can get recorded in the Halls of Fame of the book player on this website. http://www.projectaon.org/staff/david/ ha! Never mind, it seems you gotta get through all five in a series without dying.
—Michael
