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Ya know... in the Goosebumps movie with Jack Black, Dylan Minnette, Odeya Rush, Ryan Lee, and Amy Ryan, the abominable snowman is shown as ferocious and dangerous. ...in the book he or she really isn't... huh... that was ... unexpected.
Garry Blake is a somewhat famous photographer whom has photographed many things. His children Jordan (main character) and Nicole have never seen snow. They also usually end up staying with an older woman when their father is away on assignment. As fate would have it, when Garry gets a call about an assignment in Alaska to photograph an alleged abominable snowman, the older woman cannot babysit, and Jordan and Nicole finally get to see snow because they're going with their dad (parents are divorced, and the mother lives elsewhere).
They eventually find the abominable snowman after Arthur deserts them, and brings him or her back to Pasadena, their city. Both in Iknek and Pasedena, the abominable snowman... doesn't do much... he's something of a hugger, mostly...
There's also holes in the story. It is never said what happened to Arthur. He left them to their own devices, stole their food, yet Garry doesn't report it. Nothing is announced about Arthur after he isn't even visible as a dot in the distance. Also, it's never said what the creature did or what happened to him/her after he/she ran off at the end... In the movie, Champion (Ryan Lee) talks of how scary this creature was and asks Zach (Dylan Minnette) whether he'd read the book or not to know that.. I think there was also a statement from Champ about the creature doing a lot to Pasedena.. Now the movie confuses me a bit...
As an adventure, it kinda succeeds. The creature not really doing very much kinda puts a damper on the whole novella for me... I kept wondering when I was gonna read what Champ was talking about; what the abominable snowman did to Pasedena. For all the reader knows, he just hugged everyone and everything... :-/
I won't suggest using this to start a fire, but I'll give it two stars... It was ...an okay story....more
Any Goosebumps story that involves a summer camp always makes me hesitant, as far as reading it, ever since I read 'The Horror at Camp Jellyjam.' Wow.
Any Goosebumps story that involves a summer camp always makes me hesitant, as far as reading it, ever since I read 'The Horror at Camp Jellyjam.' I shouldn't have been hesitant about this one.
Sarah and her brother are sent to Camp Cold Lake by their parents. Aaron is thrilled. Sarah is anything but. Sarah also comes off as abrasive and a bit self-absorbed. That's exactly how she comes off on her first night there. It leads the girls in her cabin to not be too fons of her, and they prank her. She pranks back a couple times, including one that's not a good idea: pretending to drown (am i the only one who could hear Spongebob saying those three words in their memory?)
Using her lung power from being in band, she stays under the water for awhile. She becomes cold when she's about out of air. When she surfaces, she finds a winter wonderland in the camp, and everyone is M.I.A.
This is definitely one of Stine's many good stories....more
Sammy and his younger brother Simon don't seem to be too fond of each other. Simon is seen as a little angel (something I recall in 'The Cuckoo Clock Sammy and his younger brother Simon don't seem to be too fond of each other. Simon is seen as a little angel (something I recall in 'The Cuckoo Clock Of Doom' with Michael and his little sister Tara, and maybe one other that I can't place at the moment), and Sammy is seen as a clutz and a liar.
The story starts out with a window being open in Sammy's room when he distinctly remembers it being shut when he left the room, and a cat named Brutus that seems to be acting weird.
Sammy's friend Roxanne, with whom he has a love-hate friendship, has come over so they can discuss their English project. Roxanne's idea is to interview a ghost, and they feel that their teacher will think they're just brilliant (sounds like the same plot point in 'Say Cheese and Die Again!' when Greg does a report on a camera that causes bad things to happen, and similarly thinks his teacher will think its great).
When Sammy sees things floating, he's convinced there's a ghost, but the 'ghost' says he's just invisible. ... The twist was not the kind of twist I was expecting ... I'm not entirely sure if that's a good thing or not yet...
First, there's the similarities, and then there's that twist, and it didn't go where I'd have taken it, and... it actually worked.
Harry and his brother Alex are going to a summer camp. Alex would've preferred a music camp because he actually has a really good voice, but their parHarry and his brother Alex are going to a summer camp. Alex would've preferred a music camp because he actually has a really good voice, but their parents had waited a little too long to send them to other camps. There are only a couple weeks left till their next school year starts. The camp has some rituals to scare newcomers, but it is introduced as being all in good fun. Harry and Alex start to expect this camp may be haunted.
I noticed some similarities between this one and 'Welcome to Camp Nightmare.' First one being the title of the camp. In the other, the camp was called Camp Nightmoon. In this one, the camp is called Camp Spirit Moon. Second is that it is a requirement at both camps to write home once a week. This second similarity is probably pretty mild; pretty general. I never went to a summer camp, but writing home once a week is probably something they encourage at a lot of summer camps.
As a random note, I am pretty sure the character named Elvis likes Alex. He grabs Alex twice in this book to wrestle with him. It's more than that. It's the way that Alex talks about Elvis that kind of gave me the vibe. I also got the vibe that Alex didn't like Elvis back. *shrugs* I could be wrong, but it was just the impression I got.
I thought it was really good. This actually had a ghostly feel without going overboard. I have another book from Goosebumps Series 2000 coming called 'Return To Ghost Camp.' I wonder how Stine returned to Camp Spirit Moon....more
I'm fairly certain this is the last book about Slappy in the original Goosebumps series, and I think Stone temporarily walked away from Slappy, givingI'm fairly certain this is the last book about Slappy in the original Goosebumps series, and I think Stone temporarily walked away from Slappy, giving him another good story. However, again with the termite joke. Oy. I swear, the characters in these three books read the same dummy joke book.
Trina and her brother Dan have a father (Dan Sr.) who used to be a ventriloquist, but there isn't a single time in this book where he makes a dummy talk. Not a big deal at all, really. Just that the episode based off this one shows the father doing just that (The television series has many differences when you compare it to the books). It isn't really mentioned what the mother does, so I'm assuming she is a housewife. Nothing wrong with that, either.
Their cousin Zayne is coming for a visit. Another difference between the episode and this book is that in the book, Zayne's father also stays (in the ep, Zayne's father just drops him off....its been awhile. They may have had his mother drop him off). During their cousin's stay, stuff starts happening around the house and the dummies are always in the room which something has occurred.
Book one got 5 stars, book two got 4, and this one gets 5. Spotting the differences is still sometimes enjoyable. I don't know why exactly. I watched the episode many years ago when the series was still airing, so in ways, I knew what was going to happen. The ending was completely different, though.
I have the fourth story of Slappy on the way, which is a part of Goosebumps Series 2000. Now I'm wondering how that story will be....more
This is one in the series that I kept putting off. As silly as it sounds, I guess I prejudged it as perhaps a story with some kid with a sleeping disoThis is one in the series that I kept putting off. As silly as it sounds, I guess I prejudged it as perhaps a story with some kid with a sleeping disorder where he couldn't wake up or couldn't ever sleep. I was wrong.
The main character is Matt who has two siblings; Greg and Pam. They live with their mother, but their father passed away years before Matt's story begins. He has the smallest room in the house, while the size of his brother's room is not mentioned, nor is his sister's, or mother's. There is a guest room just dowm the hall by, I can only assume, the others. I dont think this househas any bedrooms on the first floor. He wants that guest room, but his mother won't budge. She insists on him having that tiny room.
He decides to secretly sleep in the guest room. When he wakes up, one of several things happens depending on the day: he has different parents, he's a monster, he's the son of a man obsessed with his circus, he's a squirrell. As a monster, he is captured by the Reality Police, and they want to make him drink a concoction that will make him never sleep again. As I type these words in the last sentence of this paragraph, I have no idea what my rating is yet.
Not only did this turn out to be a completely different story than I'd originally thought, it also has its perks and its downsides.
Perks: It was an interesting story idea, it's a page-turner, I was never completely bored, and I'd never read something even remotely similar to it.
Downsides: I was not too crazy about what was happening around 3/4ths of the way through. Once i started reading about the circus day, I found my overall employment of the book decrease, and the same for the rest of it. Also, I figured out the ending before I got there. It fit; I'll give it that, at the very least.
I'll give this one ................ (the dots were put there while I was thinking) ................. 2 stars. I'm tempted to give it three, but like I said: the overall enjoyment of the book decreased a little over halfway through it. :-/.......more
In the second installment of The Night of the living Dummy, we have Amy (the main character), her siblings Sara and Jeb, their parents, and Amy's bestIn the second installment of The Night of the living Dummy, we have Amy (the main character), her siblings Sara and Jeb, their parents, and Amy's best friend Margo (I'm assuming thats a nuckname for Margaret).
Amy has a dummy named Dennis, but his head pops off a lot, so Amy wants a new one. Before long, her father picks up Slappy at a used store, and she reads the words on the card. After a little bit, trouble starts.
I remember the joke about termites in a dummy from the first book. Can't really blame Stine for this, though. He's an author, not a ventriloquist.
Second, these parents are ridiculous. On pg 59 when Amy's sister Sara's room is trashed and ruined with paint, they simply take the word of their youngest, Jeb, that he didnt do it, and begin unreasonably telling Amy that she did it even if she didn't want to admit it. I get that they want to get to the bottom of it, but suggesting a psychiatrist when when Amy refuses to confess is absurd. Grounding her but not Jeb is equally absurd. Then when Amy's name was painted multiple times in Sara's room, they just assumed Amy did it even though they had no real proof the first time. Doesn't affect my rating, but I'm having a love/hate relationship with these parents. This is just horrible parenting.
In the end, though, I'm giving this 4 stars....more
This is a book I actually began reading sometime last year, but unfortunately, the copy I had had duplicate pages nBrilliant, really. Truly brilliant.
This is a book I actually began reading sometime last year, but unfortunately, the copy I had had duplicate pages near the beginning and I couldn't read the whole book. Basically -- though I'm not sure if these are the exact pages -- it was like this: pg 24 was actually pg 21, and pg 25 followed that. It was totally worth ordering another copy.
Michael Webster is terrorized by his little sister Tara (7 years old), and she is always getting him into trouble. Her life's ambition seems to be to embarrass or hurt her brother. I found myself wanting to jump into this story at times just so I could scold the parents for their coddling of Tara. She is seen as this perfect angel while Michael is seen as a bad egg who blames everything on his sister; he's viewed by his parents as having a wild imagination and being a pathological liar.
His father, after years of longing for a certain cuckoo clock, finally buys it because the owner lowered the price after noticing a 'flaw.' This was hilarious at times. Stine definitely had a good story line with this one. Definitely one of my faves in this series....more
This one turned out to be a new fave in the Goosebumps series for me.
The main character, Ricky, decides to put a joke into the school newspaper. The jThis one turned out to be a new fave in the Goosebumps series for me.
The main character, Ricky, decides to put a joke into the school newspaper. The joke is against Tasha; a girl in school that helps run the paper alongside a teacher. The joke? He sneaks into the school while the teacher and Tasha are out of the room, and edits a part of the front page. Basically if you're a creep, call Tasha. Unfortunately, her number gets switched with his, and instead of her getting calls, he gets calls.
I thoroughly enjoyed this one. This gets five out of five stars....more
This one..., I'm not really sure what to say. It was definitely creative, and surprisingly interesting.
The cover is a bit misleading. Based in the covThis one..., I'm not really sure what to say. It was definitely creative, and surprisingly interesting.
The cover is a bit misleading. Based in the cover, I always guessed the thing with green eyes under the sink was a snake.
Kat finds what she thinks is an old sponge underneath the sink in their new home. It begins pulsating; appears to breathe. Bad things begin happening to the people around her.
I'm not sure what else to say about this one without giving too much away.
I guess I feel like this one was also creepy in an odd way. Perhaps I shouldn't use the sponge that's in my kitchen LoL.
The main character in this story is a boy named Jack Johnson. His main nemesis is another boy named Wilson Schlamme. The spelling of the last name is The main character in this story is a boy named Jack Johnson. His main nemesis is another boy named Wilson Schlamme. The spelling of the last name is really up for opinion because the way I spelled it is how it is spelled in the first chapter. However, on the back, it only has one 'm.' Not a big deal, but I tend to notice spelling errors, and I'm not sure which is the error.
Jack has been trying to one-up Wilson for a long time. The main reason seems to be because they both like the same girl; Mia. Wilson seems to be such a threat to Jack's masculinity. Anything that Jack tries to do to impress Mia becomes less awesome when Wilson does it better. That is, until Jack finds a book that teaches him how to fly.
It actually was a decent story. The ending made sense. It was nice to read a story that didn't have anything extremely odd in it. 3 out 5 stars....more
well, I can definitely say that the ending was not predictable. I thought that the father was gonna show up, shed his skin, and iMarch 4th -March 5th.
well, I can definitely say that the ending was not predictable. I thought that the father was gonna show up, shed his skin, and it would be revealed that he was really a monster of some kind. that's not the twist.
Erin and Marty are huge fans of a horror movie series; Shocker on Shock Street (which made me think of the Saw movies). they are the first kids to see the latest installment in the franchise. then, they are the first people to check out the theme park inspired by the films.
I can safely say that this was one of the better Goosebumps books. not only was it not predictable -- at least to me -- but it was interesting to see where Stine was going with this one. when I has an idea of what would happen, something else did.
I noticed similarities with 'Welcome to Dead House,' and 'Welcome to Horrorland,' but still not bad. four stars....more
Well...on the bright side, it was better than the Camp Jimmyjam one.
The idea of it sounded alright. Borderlining on twisted, but only just. Jaclyn movWell...on the bright side, it was better than the Camp Jimmyjam one.
The idea of it sounded alright. Borderlining on twisted, but only just. Jaclyn moves from Chicago, IL to pretty much a winter snow-person-land where the citizens are completely terrified of a snowman. Who's ALIVE!!!!!!!!!! IT! IS! ALIVE! ... Anyway, There's approximately five characters in this entire novella. And in the end, the reason I picked this one up escapes me. I'm not sure if there are any characters that I really found interesting. Her Aunt's personality was pretty dramatic. She gasped a lot. Jaclyn's new local friends are ... I don't even know.
P.S. I never thought I'd read, or hear of (for that matter), a snowman that howls like a wolf....
(EDIT: DECEMBER 30TH, 2018): I do still kinda agree with stuff I said the last tkme I read this book, but not entirely. Just finished reading it for the second time and I actually liked it more the second time around. Whether that means that it's lone a song that grows on you or not, what's done is done. I'm adding a star....more
I bought this novella not only because it's a Goosebumps book and that I didn't already have it, but because I thought it would be interesting. I was I bought this novella not only because it's a Goosebumps book and that I didn't already have it, but because I thought it would be interesting. I was right. It didn't have alot of events exactly, it was more of a story of things that happened all at once. As in like a couple of hours. Despite that I thought the set up was good and the twist at the end was not what I expected. I had a completely different idea of what the twist was going to be and the cool part also was that a random thing at the beginning made since at the end. 4 out of 5 stars...more
**spoiler alert** Idk really. I noticed some similarities between this one and Welcome to Camp Nightmare. In both books, kids start disappearing. On t**spoiler alert** Idk really. I noticed some similarities between this one and Welcome to Camp Nightmare. In both books, kids start disappearing. On the bright side, the two books still had different endings. When you finally read about King Jellyjam, it was a bit ....odd. Nothing against R.L. Stine, but the monster was a bit ... well I'll admit that if I had gone to camp and saw this King Jellyjam, I probably would've been freaked out by it at 11 or 12 years old too. Unfortunately though, I hae to give this particular novella 1 star. It was okay, but idk. This one doesn't get two stars from me. Still love the series though. King Jellyjam turns out to be this big blob of a monster that kind of resembles Jabba The Hut and eats kids if they don't keep bathing him with water and soap then he eventually suffocates to his own body odor when the kids stop bathing him. Yeah, that's a spoiler, but that's why I have hid this review. I don't normally give away spoilers unless I really didn't like the particular book or novella. Sorry....start the fire. I mean, I thought the characters were good, but the jabba the hut guy kinda ruined it for me, personally. R.L. Stine still did a really good job on most of the Goosebumps series, but this one just seemed to be too...out there. ...more
From what I saw at the back of the book, this was the last book in the original Goosebumps series, before the Millenium and Stine introduced 'GoosebumFrom what I saw at the back of the book, this was the last book in the original Goosebumps series, before the Millenium and Stine introduced 'Goosebumps series 2000'. I haven't read all 62 of the original series yet, but it kinda seems, in a simple way for children, that he kind of exited the 90s with a bang. #1 in this series got three stars from me. The changed version they put in an episode of the series left me feeling flat. I probably wouldn't have cared much for the dramatics as a child. The novella was much better than the episode inspired from it. #2 got four stars from me. There was no episode, to my knowledge, inspired by any more of this Monster Blood series though. The 'sequel' episode to the 'Monster Blood' episode was totally random. I don't know if R.L. Stine just okayed the episode or wrote it himself as an inside story from how Evan gets to Atlanta or what, but there has so far been no big where Monster Blood was on the plane. The second book involved a Hamster, not a plane. The third one involved Evan increasing in size till he was Gigantic. Which brings me to #3, which got two stars from me. #4 was surprisingly not as bad as #3. It kind of felt like a children's book version of something evil attacking a city. Instead of the Monster Blood being a green liquid that moves and eventually tries to take over, the Monster Blood is blue; as in the creatures you see on the cover of this particular Novella. I won't say why, but despite the same characters, there was a revelation in this one that makes me wonder if it's technically in the same family as the green monster blood. Stine may have originally intended for it to sound that way, but to be honest, I didn't feel that vibe after reading the revelation of where the blue version of it came from. Still, #4 gets 4 stars from me. Even though I still think giving Evan's younger cousin the name Kermit makes me question the Mother's sanity. That poor kid already wears big glasses that would get a child picked on in school because bully's can be cruel. On top of that, he was named after a Frog Puppet? Poor kid. Smh....more
Somewhat predictable and not at all a sequel to 'The Werewolf Of Fever Swamp,' like I thought it might be. Not entirely sure how I am perceiving the wSomewhat predictable and not at all a sequel to 'The Werewolf Of Fever Swamp,' like I thought it might be. Not entirely sure how I am perceiving the way that people turn into a werewolf either. It's not something I'd throw in the fire though (as in my 'start the fire' bookshelf'). It did have those typical: It's this, OMG! No, wait, it's only this. Nope. It's that, moments, but despite only getting two stars from me it actually worked with this one. ...more
This will be the last easy read or pretty much easy read that I post for awhile.
Simply because I finished this in one sitting and question if If I thiThis will be the last easy read or pretty much easy read that I post for awhile.
Simply because I finished this in one sitting and question if If I think this was trippy or weird.
Either way, I liked it.
Even though after reading most of it, I literally muttered to myself "What the hell am I reading?"
I wasn't too fond of the majority of it being about trick or treating. The main twist was way at the end, (the twist was interesting, I'll admit), and to be honest, parts of this seemed to mimic the haunted mask. The main character wants to get back at two kids from school and scare them bad. Carly Beth anyone?
So yeah, I won't be reading another Goosebumps for awhile, and I will never be ever posting children books again (if you're very curious, go on my page and look for the 'children's books' shelf). If that doesn't tell you how bored I was the night I posted those children's books, then nothing will. ...more
Just....start the fire. Far too many 'omg it's this! Nope! it isn't" moments" gets REALLY old.Just....start the fire. Far too many 'omg it's this! Nope! it isn't" moments" gets REALLY old....more
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