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Post by 2coldMack is even more baffled on Oct 14, 2017 18:39:59 GMT -5
How far away are you from The Scarecrow Walks at Midnight? Probably my favorite of the old school books. Also, any plans to review the "Give Yourself Goosebumps" series? There's a couple in there I'd love to see how they hold up.
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Post by Alyce: Old Media Enthusiast on Oct 14, 2017 18:48:59 GMT -5
How far away are you from The Scarecrow Walks at Midnight? Probably my favorite of the old school books. Also, any plans to review the "Give Yourself Goosebumps" series? There's a couple in there I'd love to see how they hold up. 6 books away. RN, I just plan to do the 62, but we'll see how time goes.
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Post by 2coldMack is even more baffled on Oct 14, 2017 19:01:11 GMT -5
How far away are you from The Scarecrow Walks at Midnight? Probably my favorite of the old school books. Also, any plans to review the "Give Yourself Goosebumps" series? There's a couple in there I'd love to see how they hold up. 6 books away. RN, I just plan to do the 62, but we'll see how time goes. Awesome. Cool blog, just caught up with all the reviews last night, loving it so far.
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Post by Alyce: Old Media Enthusiast on Oct 14, 2017 22:25:09 GMT -5
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Post by Ryback on a Pole! on Oct 15, 2017 0:11:55 GMT -5
You can't Scare Me is my 2nd favourite. I thought it was a really funny book. The tarantula scene made me laugh.
That weird comic book one is up soon isn't it? That's one I enjoyed alot.
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Post by msc on Oct 15, 2017 3:26:27 GMT -5
I suspect Bob was inspired by a certain strand of Twilight Zone episode while writing this one. {Spoiler}"We are the monsters!" Well they are, bloody kids have issues! As a kid, I found this one boring, to be honest. The "monsters" don't show up till very late in the day. As an adult, it appealed much more. {Spoiler}As for the writing of Courtney, I don't think it's intentionally intended to be a Mary Sue type. More that the constraints of the tale mean Stine has to paint her as being a nice, kind and non-mean person to contrast with our main characters. (Sort of like in Guess Who's Coming to Dinner, to really stretch the analogy...)
So you have her being all that and still want to be nice and friendly to our main characters, and they still want her mauled to death by a killer dog.
I know who the villains are here! And it's not the mud monsters.
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Post by Alyce: Old Media Enthusiast on Oct 15, 2017 23:15:03 GMT -5
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Post by Ryback on a Pole! on Oct 16, 2017 0:45:51 GMT -5
As a kid I did my own map of my horrorland theme park for a class at school. Like a map design of s theme park with pictures of scary rides and attractions and stuff. There was a petting zoo with dangerous animals, a log flume with acid instead of water so people got dissolved, a poison lemonade stand and a giant spider web climbing frame with actual giant spiders.
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Post by Alyce: Old Media Enthusiast on Oct 16, 2017 22:40:11 GMT -5
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Post by Alyce: Old Media Enthusiast on Oct 18, 2017 8:05:49 GMT -5
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Post by häšhtå.gdālėÿ on Oct 18, 2017 14:50:20 GMT -5
Oh man, I loved the salt! Can't wait for Part III and IV!
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Post by Alyce: Old Media Enthusiast on Oct 18, 2017 22:06:42 GMT -5
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Post by Alyce: Old Media Enthusiast on Oct 19, 2017 22:16:59 GMT -5
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Post by Ryback on a Pole! on Oct 20, 2017 1:42:26 GMT -5
Scarecrow was the only one to actually scare me as a kid.
I found the thought of scarecrows sneaking around on their own to be creepy
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Post by Fauxnaki on Oct 20, 2017 2:27:24 GMT -5
Just read and got the true ending to the wax museum choose your own safe book last night. Those books are a lot my violent then I remember, multiple deaths of kids being thrown in boiling wax and one where your thrown off a cliff.
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Post by 2coldMack is even more baffled on Oct 20, 2017 13:50:16 GMT -5
Just read and got the true ending to the wax museum choose your own safe book last night. Those books are a lot my violent then I remember, multiple deaths of kids being thrown in boiling wax and one where your thrown off a cliff. Dude, the Give Yourself Goosebumps series was hardcore.
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Post by Alyce: Old Media Enthusiast on Oct 20, 2017 14:01:38 GMT -5
Just read and got the true ending to the wax museum choose your own safe book last night. Those books are a lot my violent then I remember, multiple deaths of kids being thrown in boiling wax and one where your thrown off a cliff. Dude, the Give Yourself Goosebumps series was hardcore. I believe there's one of them (Creeping Coffin I believe) that had certain things happen if you read it on certain days. Stine thought these ones out.
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Post by Fauxnaki on Oct 20, 2017 14:04:22 GMT -5
Dude, the Give Yourself Goosebumps series was hardcore. I believe there's one of them (Creeping Coffin I believe) that had certain things happen if you read it on certain days. Stine thought these ones out. The wax museum had that too. If you were reading it on a weekend you died. I like to think it was RL Stine sending a message to kids not to be nerds on the weekend and go outside.
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Post by Alyce: Old Media Enthusiast on Oct 20, 2017 22:12:16 GMT -5
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Post by msc on Oct 21, 2017 15:05:37 GMT -5
We had the option with the Scholastic Book Club of 1 book: Go Eat Worms or The Scarecrow Walks at Midnight. Most folk in the class's first Goosebumps book. I got Scarecrow, which was far better. The kids who got Go Eat Worms wound up so disappointed.
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