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Post by Limity (BLM) on Oct 21, 2017 15:09:46 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. Yes! The Scholastic Book Club! I had my Book It pin, and you better believe I got my Pizza Hut personal pan pizza.
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Post by 2coldMack is even more baffled on Oct 21, 2017 15:13:49 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. Yes! The Scholastic Book Club! I had my Book It pin, and you better believe I got my Pizza Hut personal pan pizza. Yuuuuup!
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Post by häšhtå.gdālėÿ on Oct 21, 2017 16:31:12 GMT -5
I cannot wait for the review of "Camp Jellyjam." I remember loving the creep on the cover, and would even dress up and annoy my family dressing up and posing around the house as him.
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Post by Alyce: Old Media Enthusiast on Oct 21, 2017 20:01:15 GMT -5
I have been mulling over doing the remaining 31 in January, but might change my mind and set them up earlier.
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Post by Alyce: Old Media Enthusiast on Oct 21, 2017 22:34:27 GMT -5
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Post by Alyce: Old Media Enthusiast on Oct 22, 2017 22:30:49 GMT -5
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Post by darthobiwan on Oct 23, 2017 20:47:40 GMT -5
Awesome thread! I believe I read every book but headless ghost one. I also watched the TV series, and one thing not pointed out yet was Say Cheese and Die started a very young Ryan Gosling.
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Post by Alyce: Old Media Enthusiast on Oct 24, 2017 1:25:58 GMT -5
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Post by msc on Oct 24, 2017 5:04:27 GMT -5
Phantom is glorious goofy fun. When a Sky channel started showing the TV series, I had to tape it for the class. Cue Phantom of the Auditorium, which was already a bit of an in-joke among us because our teacher was called Mrs Walker. So, episode shown in class, via VCR and really old communal wheeled in TV, and when it ended, our Mrs Walker said aloud: "I think they portrayed me as a bit too young and shrill, to be honest!"
Everyone laughed.
Our Mrs Walker was a lovely woman and a top class teacher, who was determined to get everyone in our (working class stereotype) class reading for fun, and achieved it. Last I heard, she's now in very poor health, alas, but even if the characterisation is way off key (our Mrs Walker would have stood by Zeke when he claimed innocence, even if everything pointed in his direction) this book always reminds me of her, so I am quite fond of it.
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Post by Alyce: Old Media Enthusiast on Oct 24, 2017 23:16:07 GMT -5
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Post by Alyce: Old Media Enthusiast on Oct 25, 2017 20:25:09 GMT -5
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Post by Alyce: Old Media Enthusiast on Oct 26, 2017 6:27:21 GMT -5
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Post by Ryback on a Pole! on Oct 26, 2017 7:47:21 GMT -5
Never read my Hairiest Adventure. I thought I had, could have sworn bit was about a magicians assistant turning into a rabbit, or finding a magicians rabbit was actually a human turned into one.
Anyway, sounds a bit like a forerunner to Chicken Chicken.
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Post by 2coldMack is even more baffled on Oct 26, 2017 9:24:28 GMT -5
Oh, man, it's a long way off, but now I can't wait for "How I Got My Shrunken Head". Something about that cover always stuck with me.
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Post by Alyce: Old Media Enthusiast on Oct 26, 2017 22:42:09 GMT -5
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Post by msc on Oct 27, 2017 8:00:23 GMT -5
Hairiest Adventure is really goofy, but genuinely, I never saw the twist coming at the time. So I guess it did it's job!
Terror Tower, however, really unsettled me. The bit where they get back to the hotel, and the parents are gone, and so are all of their possessions. Creepy nightmare fuel for a child. It does have no surprise twist at the end, but really, if there's any protagonists in the series who deserve a happier ending after what they go through...
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Post by Alyce: Old Media Enthusiast on Oct 27, 2017 22:24:00 GMT -5
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Post by Ryback on a Pole! on Oct 28, 2017 1:59:30 GMT -5
I'm finding I enjoy these more than Blogger Beware. Blogger Beware is funny, but comes across as too nitpicky.
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Post by msc on Oct 28, 2017 4:56:07 GMT -5
I'm finding I enjoy these more than Blogger Beware. Blogger Beware is funny, but comes across as too nitpicky. Yeah, there seems to be an element of... love or affection to these. (Though, the fact even Blogger Beware liked, say, The Ghost Next Door spoke volumes!) Sure, some of the books are rubbish, but Retro's reviews seem to appreciate them as they would be for their target audience, rather than for an adult audience. Cuckoo Clock of Doom, eh? I remember when that one got announced. Nearly universally, my friends thought "what a stupid title". Even me and Cat thought Stine had maybe run out of credible ideas. Then, we got to read the book, and nearly all of us changed from that to "what a great book". I imagine it's really difficult to write a story about a credibly ominous cuckoo clock, but Stine manages it just like Philip K Dick did years earlier. Also, for the record: my relationship with my "kid" sister was far healthier than the Michael in this book!
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Post by EvenBaldobombHasAJob on Oct 28, 2017 9:45:45 GMT -5
I'm fairly certain that had Michael not retconnned his sister out of existence she would've grown up to be a serial killer.
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