When I selected my book, I found myself torn between two intriguing-looking books. I eventually selected Escape From Tenopia since it allowed me to start out with aliens rather than having to search for the alien ending since they would all be alien endings. And I was right; they all were. All one of them.

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When choosing The Circus, I had already noted both the short length, and the fact that it was labeled as number 1 in the Choose Your Own Adventure series. This was fairly unusual, since most of the other Choose Your Own Adventure books were longer, and the Abominable Snowman is usually labeled as first. The reasons for both of these became apparent as soon as I began reading the text. The Circus is apparently the first in a separate line of Choose Your Own Adventure books from the main line—one aimed at an even younger audience than the main line, which is already marketed towards young children. As such, the material within is even more family-friendly, the text is even larger, and there is far less content.

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One thing of interest I noticed was that the choices that allowed the best outcomes, such as getting the gold and getting to stay alive seemed to have to do with deciding to break the rules while being smart at the same time. Doing things like trusting people who seemed untrustworthy would result in either your death or not getting the gold you were looking for. That seemed to be the general idea of each choice. Everything that happens is the result of rule-breaking in the name of "adventures" and still making somewhat intelligent decisions

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