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Post by Alyce: Old Media Enthusiast on Jan 30, 2018 9:21:46 GMT -5
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Post by Alyce: Old Media Enthusiast on Jan 31, 2018 5:59:19 GMT -5
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Post by msc on Jan 31, 2018 6:17:09 GMT -5
I loved How I Learned to Fly. It's so... low key for a Goosebumps book, yet it has one of the most likeable main characters, and you can't help but cheer for when he finally wins out.
Chicken Chicken is bloody nasty, it left a sour taste in the mouth.
The Blob finish made me laugh a lot at the time. Like Dont Go To Sleep, and Camp Cold Lake, it's a book with a lot of good stuff, but it just feels rushed. As if Stine was getting tired of the series. Which is a shame, because he was showing he had the ideas even then. Alas, my memory is that only 2 of the last 6 books reach any of his best quality, but perhaps I've forgotten in...20 years.
Great reviews.
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Post by Alyce: Old Media Enthusiast on Feb 1, 2018 16:59:44 GMT -5
No book review today to give my DuckTales review some breathing room. Tomorrow's review will have my most crackpot theory of them all.
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Post by Alyce: Old Media Enthusiast on Feb 2, 2018 1:08:38 GMT -5
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Post by msc on Feb 2, 2018 8:06:24 GMT -5
Not the book I thought you were going to link it to! It works. Alas, another sign the series was running out of steam.
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Post by Alyce: Old Media Enthusiast on Feb 4, 2018 7:53:03 GMT -5
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Post by Alyce: Old Media Enthusiast on Feb 5, 2018 8:59:41 GMT -5
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Post by Alyce: Old Media Enthusiast on Feb 6, 2018 10:33:39 GMT -5
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Post by Baldobomb-22-OH-MAN!!! on Feb 6, 2018 10:50:22 GMT -5
"I live in your basement" is next right? man I can't wait for that one haha.
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Post by Alyce: Old Media Enthusiast on Feb 7, 2018 1:28:54 GMT -5
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Post by chazraps on Feb 7, 2018 2:20:02 GMT -5
I just read all of these and they are spectacular.
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Post by msc on Feb 7, 2018 6:59:06 GMT -5
Ah, thank goodness, I was thinking Haunted School was the last great Goosebumps book. Apparently, it is great!
Also, I completely mixed up what Werewolf Skin was - I thought my memories were from one of the original short story collections. That one was quite creepy, and as you mentioned, has a rather graphic ending.
On the other hand, I only read I Live in your Basement once, at the time, and I didn't understand a word of it. Perhaps I'll give it a re-read with adult eyes.
After a bad patch from 39-45 or so, Stine really started to get his groove back, right as the series was ending.
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Post by Alyce: Old Media Enthusiast on Feb 8, 2018 8:57:03 GMT -5
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Post by msc on Feb 8, 2018 12:42:09 GMT -5
And we end with a whimper. Such a shame. Worse than that book, Monster Blood IV, was the realisation that there was to be no book 63. Sure, technically looking back now, Cry of the Cat might be considered it, but it was treated as an entirely different series, in tone and presentation, and that is the point I stopped buying them.
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Post by Alyce: Old Media Enthusiast on Feb 8, 2018 12:45:38 GMT -5
Tomorrow will be my ranking of all 62. As for the future, it depends on finding ways to read Series 2000/Tales to Give You. I'll admit that I used PDFs online to get these reviewed, mainly because some of the books are a pain to find in the wild. And there are some impossible Series 2000 books to find (Slappy's Nightmare being one of the rarest). But if all goes well, I'll definitely be continuing.
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Post by 2coldMack is even more baffled on Feb 8, 2018 23:03:29 GMT -5
How about you Give Yourself Some Goosebumps?
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Post by Alyce: Old Media Enthusiast on Feb 8, 2018 23:09:43 GMT -5
Hard to do full reviews on CYA books. Might do something of a thoughts in general.
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Post by 2coldMack is even more baffled on Feb 8, 2018 23:19:24 GMT -5
That's fair, yeah. I just remember "A Night in Werewolf Woods" being a perennial favorite from my childhood, is why I asked.
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Post by Ryback on a Pole! on Feb 9, 2018 0:36:44 GMT -5
It's surprising how the most consistently bad book, Monster Blood was the one that spawned a tonne of sequels. Likewise the Dummy books which, not Monster Blood levels of bad, still weren't great.
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