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Call Number: Youth Graphic Novel / Shiga, Jason, Kids Book / Comics & Graphic Novels / Science Fiction / Shiga, Jason
On Shelf At: Downtown Library

Location & Checkout Length	Call Number	Checkout Length	Item Status
Downtown Kids Books 4-week checkout	Youth Graphic Novel / Shiga, Jason	4-week checkout	On Shelf
Downtown Kids Books 4-week checkout	Youth Graphic Novel / Shiga, Jason	4-week checkout	Due 05-12-2024
Westgate Kids Books 4-week checkout	Kids Book / Comics & Graphic Novels / Science Fiction / Shiga, Jason	4-week checkout	Due 05-11-2024

Cover title.
"Pick any path, 3,856 story possibilities."
In this choose-your-own adventure graphic novel, a boy stumbles on the laboratory of a mad scientist who asks him to choose between testing a mind-reading device, a time machine, and a doomsday machine.

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Totally impressed! submitted by cherylo on July 24, 2011, 6:33pm Wow! This book is so amazing, I decided after only playing with it for 15 minutes that I needed to buy my own copy, because this is a type of story-telling I want to support and see more of! It took a heuristic computer algorithm to figure out how to interlock the storylines, and the results of that and months more of development work are completely mind-blowing.

AWESOME!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!! submitted by arjlib234 on August 1, 2011, 10:02am GREAT book, very innovative, funny.It's a wonder how he did that!(Of course,I didn't do every story possibility;only 2).

Amazing submitted by cowmooflage on August 7, 2014, 8:29am This book is awesome. He carries out the "choose your own adventure" style wonderfully. Once you figure out how to navigate the choices, it's really easy to get sucked into the story line and want to replay it over and over with all of the different possibilities. The story is also surprisingly deep and eerie.

2 of 5 stars. submitted by cullerth on July 3, 2018, 9:29pm I wanted to love this book, I really did. It's such a cool concept. I mean, a "choose your own adventure" comic? That literally had to be made with the assistance of an algorithm? And that has almost 4,000 possible paths? Sold.

Except...it was dizzying, especially at first. You follow each path by tracing lines that correspond to tabs that allow you to switch between pages and possibilities. It's a bit hard to pick up on and follow. And even once I did, I found myself stuck in taking same paths over and over. After a few attempts it no longer felt worth it to try and figure out the correct one.

An A+ for effort and originality, but I'm definitely glad I checked it out of the library instead of buying it.

Super submitted by Gorosaurus on August 1, 2023, 8:37am Super awesome