Usual high standard from Eric S. Brown, but the addition of James Baack's input made this rather special. The biggest complaint that I had with the book was the extensive detailed description of mountain climbing and mountain climbing technique. In this gamebook subgenre, there is no consistency between timelines, and only the existence of the player character and a rough outline of their goal can be assumed. Judging from the direction each plot line leads to, the story promotes camaraderie and collaboration. It was a perfect time for me and our school library couldn't keep the books on the shelves. May 1st 2006 I distinctly remember trying to figure out how the author built the stories after once discovering I had arrived at the same ending even though I had made different choices along the way. You search the ocean floor and in underwater caves, meeting friendly fish and turtles along the way. Things that publishers and editors will never deal with. Reviewed in the United Kingdom on May 29, 2018, My daughter's loved these so now to introduce my grandson, Reviewed in the United Kingdom on September 6, 2017, Reviewed in the United Kingdom on June 20, 2012, I liked this book but it was a bit basic. Nombre de pages de l'édition imprimée  This was much smaller print and quite advanced, so ideally a reading age would have been useful. This book certainly isn’t abominable, but it doesn’t exactly soar to the height of the peak of Mount Everest either. This is a fantastic setting with the possibility of many sources of oppressive conflict: Mental, psychological, physical, political, mystical, mythical, supernatural - these were the visions I had in my head, and I trusted Simmons to grab on to AT LEAST one of them and kick ass with it! I had the trust that he is slow-cooking the plot, that all this exposition will be useful at some point. Just a moment while we sign you in to your Goodreads account. This was a great twist on an age old tale of the yeti. 4.0 out of 5 stars The Case of the Abominable Snowman. Après avoir consulté un produit, regardez ici pour revenir simplement sur les pages qui vous intéressent. We’d love your help. This book was not what I expected and I'm glad for that. "Too many people have tormented them. You and your best friend Carlos have traveled to Nepal in search of the Yeti. It’s a difficult book to say much about with giving away a lot of the story. Much like House of Danger, La Isla de los Dodos, and No Me Llames Tami, The Abominable Snowman is what I'd call a "solipsistic" Choose Your Own Adventure. I believe I have read everything that he has written and enjoyed each and every one. They really enjoyed it. It was the first Choose Your Own Adventure I've shared with them, and now they are wanting more. To create our... To see what your friends thought of this book, The Abominable Snowman (Scooby Doo! Yay...she loves them as much as I did, and the boys....I mean, how can you not!?! This book gives us some of the background of the Yeti, as well as several very strange case histories and even information about a possible cover-up. There's no identifiable "good" ending (unless it's the one where talking yeti moralize at you about how awful the modern world is), a few. Raymond A. Montgomery (born 1936 in Connecticut) was an author and progenitor of the classic Choose Your Own Adventure interactive children's book series, which ran from 1979 to 2003. À la place, notre système tient compte de facteurs tels que l'ancienneté d'un commentaire et si le commentateur a acheté l'article sur Amazon. I've been a long time reader of Dan Simmons and some of his work is among my personal "Top 20" of all time. Things such as too much exposition and a plot that moves too slowly to engage the reader. This was really not an exception even though it received only a 4 star rating.