Choose
Your Adventure
The Case of the Silk King
Sean
1992
Choose Your Own Adventure
Television Special
Adapted From: The Case of
the Silk King (Game book)
Release Date: December 12,
1992
Length: 30 minutes
Credited cast:
Soleil Moon Frye.... Tina
Chad
Allen.... Sean
Charles Haid.... Uncle
Choose your own adventure,
was originally made as game books where you yourself as the reader
decided how the story should end. By choosing page numbers you could
make your own choices through the book and be apart of the story in a
unique way. Here's some info on the original book The Case of the Silk
King:
picture of book here:
http://www.gamebooks.org/gallery/cyoa053.jpg
The Case
of the Silk King book
Author: Shannon Gilligan
Illustrator: Frank Bolle
First Published: February, 1986
ISBN: 0-553-25489-8
Length: 114 pages (plus author's note)
Number of Endings: 19
Plot Summary: You travel to
Thailand in hope
of learning more about Jim Thompson, an American who worked in the silk
business until his mysterious disappearance in 1967.
This book, a
sequel to The Mystery of Ura Senke, is notable for two reasons... First
of all, it is based on a true story; unless you count historical game
books, this sort of thing is unusual in the genre. Secondly, the book
was adapted into a thirty minute television special which aired in 1992;
as far as I can tell, this is the first (and only) time that an
interactive book has been translated to a non-interactive visual medium.
Sadly, I've not yet had the good fortune of seeing the special. In any
case, the book is nearly (but not quite) as strong as its predecessor,
and it is similar in its exploration of an Asian culture and in its
internally-consistent development of a mystery plot. The writing is
adequate, the choices are interesting, and solving the mystery is a
challenge, but many of the story's conclusions aren't quite as
satisfying as one might like them to be, and the clues are often found a
bit too easily to be believed. |
