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The Lone Wolf series is an advance from "choose your own adventure" as it allows you to not only choose multiple paths throughout a quest but also have your own profile. You pick weapons and food and acquire wounds and wins along the way. Most of it is done by a points system so have your pencil ready! The journey is fun and though the books are more geared for younger ages, I still enjoy playing/reading them now and again. They are challenging because they make you think and ponder your decisions, for the consequences could mean the difference between you continuing onward with the fun, fictional tales that are before you, or falling to your fate via monster, sword, magic, or spear! Highly Recommended!

Gorwing up in the 80's and early 90's I had always been a fan of game books like Choose your own adventure, Advanced Dungeons, interplanetary spy etc. I first saw the Lone wolf books in a 7th grade book fair and my friend convinced me to buy one. I bought Lone Wolf 8: The Jungle of Horrors. After completing that book I was hoooked. I set out to purchase more books from this series, because I had very little money at the time, I only managed to add the following to my collection:Lone Wolf 1: Flight from the darkLone Wolf 3: Caverns of KalteLone Wolf 5: Shadow on the SandLone wolf 10: The Dungeons of TorgarLone wolf 13: The Plague Lords of ReulLone wolf 15: The Dark CrusadeLone wolf 16: The Legacy of VashnaSoon after I really started getting into these books they stopped publishing them. Over the years the books I did have were misplaced. I am a lot older now and recently had a bit of nostalgia and decided to hunt down books 1 - 16 because I thought 16 was the last Lone wolf book. I soon found out that Dever actually had 20 books published in the U.S. I now have books 1 - 19 still searching for that elusive #20. I wasnt planning on reading them, I just wanted to collect them. But after deciding to read Book #1 again I was hooked all over again, I am now on book 8 and plan to complete the entire series whenever I can get Lone wolf 20.In a world dominated by video games and TV, kids these days never seem to want to read anymore. When I was growing up, video games systems were just starting to come out and were many times too expensive for my parents to afford. Reading books and playing outside were my only forms of entertainment and I think it has done me well in the long run. Books will probally never be a form of entertainment for young kids these days as it was for people growing up in my generation. Who knows one day, books will probally be completely phased out. What a shame. I just wish more kids these days would see that reading can be fun, entertaining and educational at the same time as Joe Dever proved that to me.

This is a great book, anyone who says it isn't is wrong. The way the book series allows you to interact with it leads to a more interesting twist of an otherwise used type of reading. Not only that, but helping other people get through it is an even better aspect

These books are the best of the role-playing world. They are colorful, with rich backgrounds and detailed characters, and have a new exciting plot every time. It took me several years of searching used book stores, but I found 1-20. I seriously hope Joe Dever begins printing in the U.S. again.

I've read a lot of gaming books, and I must say that Lone Wolf is the best series of all time. It allows for character advancement and there is a cohesive story that carries throughout the series. It keeps you excited and I must say that I was happy when I had an opportunity to use an item in the ninth book that I had gotten in the first! The fighting is decently realistic and the skill development carries from one book to the next. Even the artwork is great. A choose your own adventure book is never as good as real honest role-playing, but if you're going to read one, this is it. I'd rate it an eleven if they let me.