As a kid, choose your own adventure made me so mad because the covers are super appealing, but by the time they emerged I was a huge sci-fi fan and had burnt through everything the big three had written and was super excited when I picked up my first CYOA book. I didnt know what it was. When I hit the first crossroads I was like, what the is this??!! I wanted a well crafted story. Not a gamification of the style of sci-fi I’d come to know and love. I went back a few times because I really wanted to like them. But there was no way. I still remember the book was Inside UFO 54-40.