Lost on the Amazon (Choose Your Own Adventure, #24) by R.A. Montgomery

Lost on the Amazon (Choose Your Own Adventure, #24) Reviews

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  Diz

  This is not the best in the Choose Your Own Adventure series. Some of the endings are anticlimactic, and there are a lot of stereotypes of the natives in the Amazon. Still, the opportunity to make choices makes this a bearable read.
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  Peter Derk

  I wanted so badly to mock this book. But you know what's crazy, a sure sign of how stupid I am? Can I ask in the form of a question?
  
  Why, on the eve of my 30th birthday, did I think the Amazon river was in Africa? How am I that dumb?
  
  I mean, sure, in the book I'm a doctor who specializes in leprosy and has spent many a day in weird canoes going up and down horrifying rivers in order to cure diseases, but if I don't know which CONTINENT I'm on, what are the odds that I'm going to get out of this alive?
  
  If I don't even have that one piece of information in my brain, what are the odds that I'm going to finish any of these without being devoured by piranhas Jesus Christ.
  
  Oh shit, can you imagine how embarrassing that would have been if I'd tried hitting on an Amazonian woman? Bad enough that they pretty much ousted men from their society and cut off a breast and almost always seem to be carrying weapons, but then I have to go in and say, "So, Amazonian, huh? I've been to Africa once. It was kind of cool. Can I buy you another one of those...what appears to be beer tinged red with the blood of a vanquished foe?"
  
  This volume does get an extra star due to the fact that I died by piranha. Not that I'm excited about that, but it was a way in which, as a youth, I thought I may very likely pass. There were a few things on the list, and piranhas was one of them, possibly in third place after airline disaster and, at the top, Bermuda Triangle. Seriously. I read every book my school library had related to the Bermuda Triangle. We flew from Colorado to Chicago a few times when I was a kid, and I always asked my mom if the flight plan was going to pass through the Bermuda Triangle. Then I would ask ARE YOU SURE? This is probably an early sign and a piece of information that, if you'd already had it ,would have made my Amazonian experience less shocking.
  
  I have to stop typing because I'm afraid my degrees (MULTIPLE! WHAT THE FUCK!?) are going to be revoked if anyone finds out about this.
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  Benjamin Stahl

  Now I know there are multiple endings provided in these books. My guess is the complexity offered in this series reveals itself after multiple readings, trying out all the various twist and turns. However, I am just reading these once through. And with that in mind, I actually got quite invested in this one. For once I seemed to be be making some reasonable decisions. Then suddenly, without any justification, my adventure ended with me marching off into the jungle. Just as things were about to get more interesting, the story didn't so much as end as just stop. Very unfair.
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  Remo

  La serie de Elige tu propia aventura es, literalmente, un clásico de nuestra infancia. He releído algunos, años después, y me parecen un poco cortos de miras, limitados en las posibilidades, pero cuando tenía 10 años cada uno de ellos era una maravilla lista para ser explorada hasta que hubiera dado todo lo que tenía dentro.
  Al final siempre sabías que ibas a recorrer todos y cada uno de los caminos posibles. La emoción estaba, por tanto, en ganar y pasarte la historia al primer intento. Si no podías, pues nada, seguro que en el intento 18 acababas encontrando el camino. A veces los autores iban "a pillar", poniéndote los resultados buenos detrás de decisiones que eran claramente anómalas.
  Recuerdo haber aprendido tanto palabras como hechos y datos en estos libros. No nadar contra la corriente cuando quieres llegar a tierra, dónde colocarse cuando un avión va a despegar, un montón de cosas interesantes y un montón de historias vividas, decenas por cada libro, que convirtieron a las serie en una colección fractal, donde cada vez podías elegir un libro nuevo entre los que ya tenías.
  Llegué hasta el tomo 54 y dejé de tener interés por la serie, pero la serie siguió hasta superar los 180 títulos. Tal vez mis hijos quieran seguir el camino que yo empecé. Si quieres que lo sigan, pasa a la página 7.
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  Kyla

  It was a very interesting book, that is for sure. I liked that it was a choose your own adventure book. It was interesting because they got lost over by a swamp and they were running away. Then I forgot what happened.
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  Alex

  ¡He logrado morir de nuevo!
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  Daniel Acosta

  I started reading this book thinking that I was going to end up dead in the Amazon because that’s pretty much what happens in all of the Choose Your Own Adventure books. You wind up dead for some reason in most of the books on the Choose Your Own Adventure series. This time guess what, yes, I’m pretty sure you figured. I make very good decisions and I wind up dead. I wish the endings weren’t always the same. This book could’ve been more interesting because I did not enjoy the way my book ended but yeah. Amen. Happy.
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  Clong

  What a delightful blast from the past. As a grade school kid our library in Casa De Oro had a little spinning tabletop shelf full of these choose your own adventure books and I couldn’t get enough of them. This one was my favorite and I hold it responsible for my life long love of reading about the Amazon.
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  Maria

  The Amazon jungle is quiet a mysterious place to live But when you want to find friends who are lost in the Amazon jungle. It can be hard and challenging. Interesting story!
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  Lynn K.

  Died on my first choice which seemed the safe/logical thing to do. I skimmed the different endings and you don't seem to find your missing friends in any of them.
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  Nate

  While suuuuper racist, this book does contain some of the best art in the series thus far.
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  vererolon

  No me gustó ninguno de los finales😪
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  Arhaan Shaikh

  Bad and horrible plot.
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  'Nathan Burgoine

  I loved the Choose Your Own Adventure books, and constantly borrowed them from the library. I owned a few, too, and would mark little pencilled notations on all the endings I managed to reach in my own copies (I'd tuck aside a piece of paper for the ones from the library). When I was nine and ten, these books got re-read so many times it was unreal, and they paved the way to me wanting to write, too, as sometimes I got annoyed at an obvious, missing option.
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  Omar

  A doctor who is living in the amazon figures out that his friends have mysteriously disappeared and he wanted to save them but he had no experience going to the forest. So he meets up with a guy that knows a lot about the amazon forests and its mysterious wonders that bestow upon him inside. Then when he meets the guy all that lies in the story is in your hands. Will you survive?
  
  I think this stories theme is suspense because you choose your own path and you never know what is going to happen.
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  Yolanda Chapa

  Hace mucho que quería leer más de esta clase de libros. Son dinámicos, divertidos, cortos y fáciles de leer. Esta aventura permite conocer Amazonas, un gigante, templos perdidos, anacondas y varias muertes seguras de acuerdo a lo que uno elija. A veces sentí que los finales, aunque felices, estaban algo incompletos, pero lo comprendo porque sigue siendo una aventura corta, y el libro me proporciona muchas.
  Espero leer más libros así en el futuro.
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  Eneida

  Well, I'm not actually finished, since I've read only a few of the options that the book offers. Some choices lead you to a better and longer story than others. There were still lots of different choices to follow, but I decided not to read all of them. I really like, though, the concept of the book. It's nice to be able to follow all this different paths and find what kind of end you'll find.
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  Marts (Thinker)

  An Amazonian adventure from the 'Choose your own adventure' series... in these books the reader gets to be the central character by choosing what path the tale follows through a variety of endings...
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  Library Lady Terri

  This type of book has very unique reader. I am not that type of reader. The idea that the plot of the book is controlled by you the reader is intriguing but I'm a reader who needs to read every word on every page so I had to keep going back to start over and take a different path.
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  Monica

  LA HISTORIA PRINCIPAL ES MUY ATRACTIVA (COMO TODAS LAS DEL AUTOR) E INTERESANTE, CON UNA FUERTE AURA MÁGICA. UN LIBRO QUE ESTÁ BIEN EJECUTADO Y EXPRIME CADA UNA DE SUS POSIBILIDADES AL MÁXIMO. SIN EMBARGO, CUESTA CONCLUIR FELIZMENTE Y ENCONTRAR A TUS COLEGAS PERDIDOS.
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  Nadia

  Me ha encantado.
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  Terri

  I am not a fan of choose your own adventure. I feel like it is all over the place and I worry that I don't get the full story.
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  Vege90

  Es un libro muy largo pero interesante hay muchas decisiones que tomar y es muy difícil lograr llegar al final bueno y a comparación de otros no tiene mucha historia.