In the 80's, I was a fantasy-loving kid. I was lucky with parents buying me many gamebooks like the Sorcery! serie (they were only books, not specially expensive). Steve Jackson and Ian Livingstone were my favorite writers at this time :)
You had to play with a paper pen and rubber for the character sheet, and dice at some parts, including fights. I was more interested in scenario so after a few books I decided to drop everything but the books and consider myself lucky at each dice roll. No need to download a trainer at this time :-D

It's better to play in order as you can import your saved game from earlier games (that was Sorcery 1 and 2). Haven't played 3 yet.

Hi,as Pikachu01 has said, it's better to play in order. I have yet to play the video games, but I have some memories of the books: choices made at some point can impact your options later (= in another book) in the story. And, of course, it's a whole story, so..
I remember Lone Wolf, yes, I read / played most of the serie :) It was damn good. Another one I loved was the GrailQuest serie, with much laughs and absurdity in it, a mix between Monty Python and dark fantasy.