Ever heard of the old adage, "To list freedoms is to limit them"? Essentially it means that boundless, or implied freedoms are better left unlisted, because once they are committed to paper, it's as if we will jump circles around them, trying to find loopholes in the rhetoric. The Anti-Ballistic Missile Treaty and Reagan's Strategic Defense Initiative controversy of 1972 presents a lucrative example. So in terms of the infamous Choose Your Own Adventure books, you're not exactly choosing your own adventure. You're choosing from the list of adventures they give you. Now, I am by no means knocking the CYOA books, they're probably the most interactive and open-ended form of fictional narrative that exists. But it's important to think about the true "freedom" that exists with CYOA books. True CYOA would imply you write it yourself. Looking for loopholes around the meaning of a word "choose your own adventure" puts me at an impasse. Add in the tendency to search for "the best" adventure by keeping your finger on the page and flipping through to see if the decision you made ends your story, and the text becomes even more controlling. The potentially "wrong" decision which ends your story makes you search for the hidden meanings of the words, which decision the text is nudging you to make. For example, "To accept the monk's offer of the secret knowledge and begin your new life, turn to page 94" or "To reject the monk's offer and continue on your regular path, turn to 85" etc.. BUT, this also presents a problem, since sometimes the more appealing path is the one that kills you. Arbitrariness is yet another element that keeps you on your toes and another way the text can nudge your choices. So CYOA isn't really CYOA at all, but rather, choose among these two pre-determined, equally-arbitrary-but-still-rhetorically-appealing-choices. If you want a pure CYOA, write something yourself.