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Inhuman?!?! That’s awful and so terrible someone has said that! I’m so sorry you all experienced that.
Idk about you, but growing up, I spent way more time reading my Dragonology book than ever thinking about sex...I’m happy to be a dragon then 🤣
There is a Choose Your Own Adventure book/comic called Meanwhile that blew my mind as a kid with a similar concept. If you chose to eat chocolate ice cream (the first choice), eventually you met a professor who built a machine to guarantee a coin flip will come up heads. He rigged a machine to destroy the universe if the coin is tails, so existing after pushing the button means your coin must necessarily have landed on heads. The book gets even trippier after that, but that’s what stuck with me the longest. It’s a pretty solid read in the YA section, and a basic but solid introduction to quantum mechanics.
Meanwhile (2010, Jason Shiga)
Shiga is an interesting dude. Some of his other works (FLEEP, Demon) are better known because they’ve been available online. That’s unlikely to happen with Meanwhile, and I think it would lose the charm if it did. This book is the ultimate choose-your-own adventure comic. Starting with which flavor of ice cream to get, you might choose your way into time travel, doomsday bombs, and moral quandaries. There are literally thousands of possibilities in these intricately designed (yet crudely drawn) pages. What I like best is that there’s a plot element which makes the choosing mechanic perfectly justified.
I adore everything Shiga has ever done and treasure my copy of Meanwhile.
That said I just wanted to jump in and warn anyone squeamish that you aren't kidding, DEMON is REALLY dark and does not shy away from extremes. I recommend it for people like me who gobble down dark stuff if it's the right flavor (e.g., I binge every season of Black Mirror as soon as it comes out.)
Yeah, not the right subreddit as it seems but still willing to help.
Does he have a favourite video game? There are often art books for those with a mix of renderings and concept arts.
Or maybe look for a cool pop up book, it is more '3D' than just prints but might be difficult to find one for adults. I mean something like this (Amazon link) or this (Amazon link).
The Monster at the End of This Book
My all time favorate kids book. No matter how many times it was read to me, I was always suprised by the ending.
It's $18.56 on Amazon, if you want to save $1.44 ;)
$18.79 on eBay w/free shipping if you don't have Prime.
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Just had a look at those games you showed me and it's not one of them
You don't control any character it is text based just like the old books we got in our childhood. I should look on W95/98 or ms-dos system as i can't find anything on amiga 500.
Gameplay is basically just like these Choose you own adventure
The Ten Realms series by Michael Chapman - Both MCs have healing magic and one of them, who was a combat medic before being isekaid to the Ten Realms, focuses on his healing magic and specializes in alchemy to support that healing.
10 Realms has a lot of Kingdom Building and Auctions. One to the more powerful factions in the series is an Auction House, The Blue Lotus.
My first thought was Dragonology, but that only covers dragons. I worked at a bookstore in 2007 and we had a hard time keeping it in stock, it was hugely popular.
You might want to post in r/whatsthatbook, they're good with things like this.
Um I remember the "ologies" series
I think I remember this cover too
there’s a really cute pop-up book that doesn’t have the disney illustration. it’s really pretty, although the text might be a bit too hard to read for kids. can’t remember if it’s the original next or not!
One of my daughters favorite books, and one of my favorites when I was a kid was “The Monster at the End of This Book”
The Monster at the End of This Book https://www.amazon.com/dp/0307010856/ref=cm_sw_r_cp_api_glt_fabc_MN0SQ4XD1SKYSVYCZVK1
There are a couple of books called Look-Alikes that have tons of shots similar to this one made up of different items!
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Amazon! They have other ones too but here are a couple: https://www.amazon.co.uk/Choose-Your-Own-Adventure-4-Book/dp/1933390948/ref=sr_1_2?ie=UTF8&qid=1549810839&sr=8-2&keywords=choose+your+own+adventure+books
Oh my gosh, how cute! Your kiddo sounds really cool (and quite precocious!) If she's interested in this book, she may find Dragonology to be similarly intriguing. I'll admit I speak from personal bias-- I thought dragons were super cool and was obsessed with this book as a kid. I even remember begging my mom to buy me a dragon egg so I could have one of my own ( ꈍᴗꈍ) maybe check it out~
I know this doesn't exactly fit your description, but the antiquated art style, informational text, and low page count line up, so at the very least maybe you'll enjoy it: amazon link. It wasn't old in the early 2000s, in fact, it's from 2003, but, you could have read it in elementary school, depending on the exact time you went.
Sorry I didn’t spot those before - missed Absolute TM because of the glare, the others I just wasn’t looking hard enough. Do I see you only have Vol 1 of Animal Man? 2 and 3 are also good, they complete the Morrison run and the way he signed off is very worth reading.
Your tastes seem pretty wide, so (assuming I’m just not overlooking it), check out Jason Shiga’s stuff. Deceptively simple art, mind-frack stories. Start with Meanwhile...
Not sure if videos are allowed , but this one is decent and the book is very well made i think. If someone is interested here is amazon link
The concept is certainly interesting, especially the gamification. That aspect might be enough to set it apart from Jason Shiga's Meanwhile: Pick Any Path. 3,856 Story Possibilities. which, for my money, is the gold standard for this type of book.
I also notice that these are translations from the French, which is a good sign. Has anyone read the originals? Do you have any insight into how well they work in practice?