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Message: <blockquote data-quote="Joshua Randall" data-source="post: 9560946" data-attributes="member: 7737">I’m trying to remember how things were categorized at “The Owl and the Pussycat” bookstore in Lexington, Kentucky, where I acquired all these books as a kid. I can remember the specific shelf that had the CYOAs and other gamebooks: you’d go through the front door of the house-converted-into-bookstore, heads towards the back, take a right as you entered the back room, and the shelf with the gamebooks was again on your right. That’s where I found my first Lone Wolf book so it is seared in my memory.That nostalgia trip aside, I want to say there were terms like “young readers” for little kids who had just learned to read for themselves; some interim term I can’t recall; then “young adults” for teenagers. Beyond that in a normal bookstore things were shelved by type (best sellers, mystery, horror, whatever) rather than by age group.That sounds awesome. It reminds me conceptually of a Conan the Barbarian gamebook I have with, in my recollection, some mature-ish themes.Perfect.There are a weirdly large number of spells in AD&D to allow for disguising books, trapping them, putting guardian monsters on them… I guess that may have been a bigger element of the game in its early PVP days?</blockquote>