Return to Atlantis (Choose Your Own Adventure, #78) by R.A. Montgomery

Return to Atlantis (Choose Your Own Adventure, #78) Reviews

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  Jeffrey Caston

  The first CYOA that I see as a sequel to a prior CYOA book. It was cool. I wish it had you choose more and more often (I found it directed me back and forth a lot over the text without giving me the chance to choose paths). But that's okay. I still enjoyed it. (And still like the classic artwork from the early 80s better, but these are growing on me.
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  Nick Jones

  RA Montgomery just loves writing anti-human propaganda and Return to Atlantis is unusually heavy-handed in this respect. Friendly aliens tell you that humans are awful and warlike, hostile aliens show up bearing weapons and you're told that those weapons must've been sold to them by humans because humans are bad, peaceful aliens gathering food are attacked by a human submarine for absolutely no reason, whales won't talk to the aliens without taking a hostage because those awful humans hurt whales, etcetera. Not only does RA Montgomery not like humans, he doesn't like our music - at one point you turn into a musical signal that shuts down a rock concert, solely because Montgomery only likes soothing music. He certainly does like to bombard you with feeling peaceful, soothing, relaxing emotions (any time his fellow dirty humans aren't mucking things up with their war, hatred, and pollution, of course), which just reinforces the notion that Montgomery was a burned-out hippie who used a lot of drugs. This is also one of those annoying CYOA books that give "you eventually accomplish your goal" endings without elaboration.
  
  I want to read an objectivist CYOA that explores human greatness, where every ending is a success because of our unlimited potential, if only because I know that such a book would make Montgomery roll over in his grave.
  
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  PS: The city of Atlantis sucks and is boring.
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  Kaytee Cobb

  In a Return to Atlantis, I also got to return to my childhood. As part of the Goodreads Summer Reading Challenge, I *had* to pick up one of these titles from the library. I actually chose three to bring home so that I could let my kiddos Choose Their Own Adventure as well. We went to space, were abducted by ant people, and dove beneath the sea. Sometimes we died, sometimes we saved the world, and mostly we had a great time. The books themselves are not nearly as exciting as I remember them being. I kind of want someone to pick up this series/concept and make it into something new and great. But even so, the walk down memory lane was certainly fun.
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  Lynn K.

  OK number of choices. Wacky story, as usual.
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  Pumkin pie

  I love Atlantis!
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  KatieCatlyn

  few choses in this book,
  this wasn't very interesting but it got my attention.
  i wish it had more adventure.
  rating it 2 because of the script line doesn't really match up.
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  Chris

  It was fine.
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  Holden Attradies

  The story in this one was so so. Like most of R.A. Montgomery's books the techno-babel and heavy handed moral messages kind of drove me nuts as an adult, but my kid was into it.
  
  What dropped this from a three to a two star rating for us was how bad the story/page lay out was. I've read a good mix of older and newer editions and never noticed one this bad but MAYBE it's just because of how old it. But the first choice isn't actually till seven pages in (the longest I've seen). That alone wouldn't have been too bad but instead of there just being seven consecutive pages the story has you jumping all over the physical books pages even though you haven't made a choice. And this was some thing that didn't just happen there, it occurred a few more times.
  
  On top of that I would say a good majority of the pages text only goes half way to two thirds down the page. That mixed with how many multi page stretches there were without choices made the book feel very badly laid out. Simple things like slight font size changes and inclusions of half page pictures could have cleared this all up. Maybe that was beyond them technically in 1988, but I doubt it. I had a feeling the book was either published very quickly or perhaps the word count just wasn't high enough to make the book long enough on its own and they spread it out.
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  Mark Austin

  Ah, Choose Your Own Adventure, that paper bridge between that 5th grade fantasy map (see my Hobbit review) and my life-changing discovery of Dungeons & Dragons in the 7th grade.
  
  Some of them were great, some punishing, some arbitrary, but they revealed to me for the first time that I could make choices and that they had immediate effect the course on my (fictional) reality. For a kid whose home life felt largely hopeless and inescapable, the empowerment of making my own way by the power of my own choices and facing consequences traceable directly to my decisions, wow!
  
  While day-to-day reality seemed to deal out arbitrary, unpredictable punishments regardless of my actions, here was a place where I could experiment and learn and grow in safety and if I was punished there was always a why.
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  Alyssa

  Choose Your Own Adventure: Return To Atlantis by, R.A Montgomery was an amazing book. I love the Choose Your Own Adventure books because the author lets you choose how the book ends. This book is one of the many great Choose Your Own Adventure books. Something that I also like about the Choose Your Own Adventure books is that in most of them the main character is you. In this book the author did a great job of describing what the seen was and what the character looked like and what the stuff around the character looked like for example in this book one of the sentences was, "Something ahead of the submarine was glowing, it looked like a giant yellow glowing light". I can not wait to read all of the books that are in the Choose Your Own Adventure series.
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  Julie

  Just gave this to MEM last night to read. We read up to the first decision together, so she could understand the concept. She couldn't wait to tell me how her first pass through ended last night and then gave me the play-by-play this morning. She is also thinking about all the people she knows who would like this book. I bought a lot of them through eBay last year...my plan is to give her a new book every few days this summer.
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  Mark

  When I was young, I used to ready every Choose Your Own Adventure or Which Way Book that I could get my hands on. After following the initial course of my decisions, I would go back and read every possible path of decisions. I loved these books.
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  Brad Cramer

  This is another book that I read as part of our library's book nerd challenge. I used to read these as a kid and loved them. It wasn't quite as fun this time around, but it brought back fun memories.
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  Marts (Thinker)

  If you ever thought about being in Atlantis here is the place, and you have many different ways to experience the adventure!
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  Sebastian

  I read what seemed like dozens of these books, though to be honest I can't remember which ones specifically. They were awesome. I hope they still publish them today.
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  Diah Didi

  wow ... buku jaman dulu kala ... masih adakah diluaran sana?
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  Rebecca

  Another choose your own adventure book, and again Soren went through every possible outcome. He did say this one was not as exciting as the snowman one.
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  Cindy

  My brother and I read every single one of these we could get our hands on when we were kids.
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  Morgan

  it was pretty good
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  Arthuro

  It was good
  
  You should put like more interesting beginings tbfh and yeah you should put more choices for the next ones or sequals ✌✋☝
  
  
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  Rebecca

  This book was different but very funny. I really liked it.
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  Santiago Gil

  Primer libro que leí, allá por la primaria, lo encontré en mi casa y me trajo muy buenos recuerdos, se merecía una relectura.