Thoughts on R. L. Stine and his books?
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milosprole9 — 9 years ago(October 14, 2016 09:37 AM)
I used to adore his books, but for this time I don't enjoy reading much his books. I mean I still enjoy, but I'm tired of all this "it was dream" or "someone tried to scare her" on the end of chapters. I'm currently reading Fear Street -
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Moss_Garden — 9 years ago(October 20, 2016 09:27 AM)
I've never cared much for horror and never got into the Goosebumps series, but I did go through a Fear Street phase as a tween. He really has a talent for resonating with kids of that age and their need for things that are dark and complex and a little above their pay grade in terms of handling bad stuff.
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novastar_6 — 9 years ago(October 21, 2016 09:52 PM)
I never read his books as a kid. I read the Fear Street books as a teenager, which were okay at best, really there were only a couple that I'd call anywhere near great. The main characters got very annoying very fast, spend 130 pages so helpless and cowering and quivering and then finally get a backbone and either fight for their lives or figure out what to do.
This summer I got a few of the Goosebumps books and read themI'll be honest with y'all, as a kid, I loved anything relating to horror, but I think I would've been rolling my eyes at these when I was a kid too. There's suspending disbelief, and then there's stuff that even as a kid you know could NEVER happen, people are never THAT stupid.
Now, when I was a kid, the books I read were the Fright Time series, anybody here ever read those? If not, find them, read them, and let us know how you think they hold up compared to Goosebumps. I have a friend who read Goosebumps as a kid and she admits they don't hold up as an adult like they did when you were 10, they certainly don't, Fright Time doesn't hold up QUITE as well over time but it still reads a hell of a lot better than Goosebumps, it's a bit more believable, the threats that NOBODY believes are carried out a bit more subtly so it's easy for them to miss, not an obvious 'oh you're about to die, oh, it's over, annnnnnd it was just a great trick, you knew it all the time, ha ha ha, then rinse and repeat about 10 more times', or whatever it was.
I'm not sure but I think the best books by R.L. Stine are the ones he doesn't write, I read one of the Ghosts of Fear Street books which seems a bit more on the Goosebumps level, something about a haunted knight, but it was actually well written, and it was written by a woman.