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Golden Sword of Dragonwalk (Twist a Plot)

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Actually originally written in 1983, NOT 1995, (I happen to have the original 1983 paperback sitting right in front of me as I write this), this is NOT a new book by R.L. Stine, but rather something he wrote WAAAAAYYYY back before the entire "Goosebumps!" thing even existed. If you want to say you "knew him when", read this book. It was Volume 4 of the "Twist-a-Plot" series, a long-since failed copycat of the popular Choose Your Own Adventures that started--and ended--in the early '80s. The book itself is pretty fun, standard dungeons and dragons, wizards and warriors stuff. Little bits of humour such as "Does it make you feel any better to know that the lizard suffered indegestion?" after getting eaten by a dragon are cute at first, but get trite and then quickly rather annoying as the book wears on. If you're a true R.L. Stine fan, get this book, or if you already HAVE the original, KEEP IT, 'cos it's probably a collector's item by now. But otherwise, don't bother--it's not worth the hassle. ...Notorious

I read this book when I was a small kid in elementary school and I loved it. I read it over and over again, and still remember much of it to this day (I am 30). Books like these really excited me and made me interested in reading.

I still remember how it begins: the kid goes to his grandma's house, which is an old, dusty mansion. He opens a hidden door and is transported to a magical, medieval kingdom. Cool stuff if you're 7!