The Gang of Five
Beyond the Mysterious Beyond => The Arts => Attic Treasures => Topic started by: Achillobator on September 10, 2007, 06:12:47 PM
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Oh, come on. We've all read these books one time or another. I used to love goosebumps. Oh yes, R.L. Stine is a master. My favourite were the pick your own ending books. My specific favourite would probably be "Attack of the Beastly Babysitter."
It was just so much fun :p
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I've never read any Goosebumps book.
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I've read a couple when I was a lot younger (ages 6-7). I found the books to be boring and not very challenging so I moved on to computer repair manuals :P:
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Reading computer repair manuals at ages 6-7? o.O When I was growing up, people at that age were reading short, simple books that you find in the children's section. I never met anyone around the ages of 6-7 who found reading computer repair manuals to be fun or of any importance.
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I've read sooooo many of these books. i think my favourite had to be "Say cheese and die"
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Oh, come on. We've all read these books one time or another.
Not me.... :unsure:
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Same for me here :unsure:
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Ah! GoosebumpS! The TRUE scary stories for kids. Too bad back then that I didn't have such an enthusiasim to read, so the stories seemed boring due to that bad effect. Today though, I look at them and see them for the true brillance they held. However, I tend to enjoy the TV versions more. Truly scary!
And my favorite? I'm sorry, I can't decide. :D
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I kind of liked them as a kid but I realized pretty quickly that they weren't scary at all XD Although not a book, the TV rival to Goosebumps, "Are You Afraid of the Dark?" was much better at providing a scare. The scares in Goosebumps are too cheap for me, I guess XD But then, they are for kids.
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My all-time favorite was "Welcome to Camp Nightmare." To this day, some of my writing is based off a similar scenario. Yeah, I used to read these books until I came across a King novel in my school library :lol.
*speaks like Schwarzeneggar: Hasta la vista, Goosebumps!*
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R.L. Stine made a monster movie "Don't think about it" that was pretty good. watched it with my siblings on halloween, scared the heck out of them
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Whilst I never read the novels, I remember seeing the television show version. That was scary enough for me.
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Lets see.... I can remember reading one of those books in dutch, something with a mirror... but just once, I was more into the dutch writer Paul van Loon. I do put the goosebumps books away regularly at my work though.
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Oh man, I still love Goosebumps. Some of my favorites were Legend of the Lost Legend, Welcome to Camp Jellyjam(freaky!), It Came From Under the Sink... I could go on. They're not very scary, but for some reason I love his writing style.
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Reading computer repair manuals at ages 6-7? o.O When I was growing up, people at that age were reading short, simple books that you find in the children's section. I never met anyone around the ages of 6-7 who found reading computer repair manuals to be fun or of any importance.
It is a characteristic of aspies to learn as much as they can about subjects that fascinate them, no matter what their age is. Just in the third grade alone, I memorized the weather cycle, forces of nature, the digestion process, the events of the sinking of the Titanic, how the heart works, and dinosaurs of course :lol. My only other interest was fairy tales (descriptively written, not picture books). Yeah, I prefered such material over children's books. I always get a kick out of the movie "Matilda" 'cuz she reminds me so much of myself at that age, reading book after book :lol.
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I must have read near all of the Goosebump books, and year "Are you Afraid of the Dark" was much more scary than Goosebumops., there was a definite camp factor to the Goosebumps stories. My favorite Goosebumps, story? Vampire breath, because I 've always loved vampires..
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I used to love Goosebumps. Goosebumps and AYAOTD(Are You Afraid of The Dark) were like my passion growing up.
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Man, I saw one episode of AYAOTD when I was little, and it scared me half to death. It was about some dead guy who could travel through drains. For about a year after that I would yank open the shower curtain in a panic every time I walked into the bathroom :lol
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I used to love the Goosebumps series. I read loads of them but the only one I couldn't finish was "Night of the Living Dummy". The one about the ventriloquist's dummy that came to life at night. That one creeped me out so much :blink:
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I love Goosebumps. I have over 60-70 of them. My favorite is "Calling All Creeps!", because of the cover. I heard that there'll be Goosebumps toys this fall.
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Calling all creeps was good! I forgot all about that one.
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I was just going through all my old books and found I had nearly every single one of these (I think I lack the last four), as well as nearly every spin off he wrote. I'm sort of tempted to do a "Goosebumps Challenge" now or something, where I read through a book a week or maybe a book every 2-3 days. They aren't that long, and I'm a pretty fast reader, I'd just need the time to do so.
I absolutely loved this series, and I think it's what fueled my reading when I was a kid. R. L. Stine once said that one of his goals with this series was to get kids into reading, and I can say this series most certainly did it. I really give a tip of the hat to him for it. I have really fond memories of walking into Waldenbooks (before it was bought out by Borders) at my local mall and heading right to the back of the store, where there were just shelves of the series. I became an avid collector, starting from book one and going from there, and really surprised myself at all the memories I had when I was digging them out yesterday. They are now arranged in order on one of my bookshelves. :DD
Favorites? There were so many classics for me, but I'd say that the first 16 or so really stick out at me. "One Day at Horrorland" was great, as was "The Haunted Mask", but I have to say I think my favorite was probably "The Beast from the East". Really good blend of humor and suspense, and the thought of playing a deadly game of tag with giant furry blue creatures that can talk your language (and are rabid fanboys when it comes to the rules) is the most memorable to me. :DD