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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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Quote from: Achillobator,Sep 10 2007 on  05:12 PM
Oh, come on. We've all read these books one time or another.
Not me.... :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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Quote from: DarkHououmon,Sep 10 2007 on  07:58 PM
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..
Winner of these:


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Dash The Longneck

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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.