Two fun blogs!

[candyland]

articulation brought this to my attention--how many of you read the Goosebumps books when you were a kid? In the same vein, how many of you thought that by association, R.L. Stine was the coolest thing since the lava lamp? Yeah, though so XD Me too. Though I can honestly say that only one of the books ever actually scared me ^^;;

Anyway, there's actually a blog about it--an adult is reading back through the books and reviewing each of them. I've only read a couple so far, but I enjoy them. One, it's a nice trip down Memory Lane, and two, it confirms what I thought when I picked one of the books up at B&N one day and paged through it for the sake of nostalgia.

...that thought being, "How in blazes did I ever think these were good??"

There's also one for Fear Street. I never read as much of the basic Fear Street series, though for a while I was stuck on a couple of the spin-off series.

Enjoy!


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Comments

[yume-no-kage.livejournal.com]

Augh. I grew out of the Goosebumps series really quickly (after reading probably abou thirty of them, heh) but was stuck on the Fear Street novels for ages.

I KNOW that they're so bad, now but I think my standards were lower, back then. XD *read everything when she was a child*

[candy--chan.livejournal.com]

I was into Goosebumps in elementary school. Granted, like you, I was one of those kids who loved to read and would happily devour any book that I could get my hands on and that interested me in any way. They're definitely intended for children ^^;;

I didn't discover Fear Street until middle school, but I loved those books. I really should go find the last Fear Street Seniors book, if only to see who made it to graduation XD

[keidiarji.livejournal.com]

OMGZ. I LOVE YOUR ICON. XD

[candy--chan.livejournal.com]

Thank you! \o/

[ehrenyu.livejournal.com]

I remember reading them and only getting scared from 4 or 5 of the books out of a bazillion. Some were just lame. My younger brothers were completely enthralled, I remember. XD I read 'em when I ran out of Nancy Drew and BoxCar Children.

[candy--chan.livejournal.com]

Yeah, I think I knew deep down that a lot of them were stupid even when I was that little. But I still plowed through them. Every book order, we would all eagerly await the arrival of our new paperback copy :3

Oooh, I liked Nancy Drew, too! :D Read a lot of those in middle school. Now I enjoy the Nancy Drew computer game series. (http://www.herinteractive.com/prod/index.shtml)

[laytonmeme.livejournal.com]

Woah! I used to love those books. I remember reading them, and thinking 'one day I want to write stories like this'...
...I kind of hope my ambitions have raised a bit since then. :B

Haha, I already love this site. Great find!

[candy--chan.livejournal.com]

I think we're all like that. There are very few books (or heck, even cartoons) from my childhood that I pick up now and still go "Wow! This is just as fantastic as I remember it!" I recently reread Two-Minute Mysteries by Donald Sobol. Still enjoyable...but I remembered the answer to every single one of 'em XDD

Thanks! *glomps articulation for the find* She found the Goosebumps one, I found the Fear Street one :D

[ytak.livejournal.com]

Interestingly, I never read them. They didn't interest me.

And for a non-post related comment, after reading socchan's comments about Avatar last night, I got to thinking. Zuko left his family. Azula makes me think she's a B.O. member (I swear she's related to Gin or Vermouth). Does that mean Zuko is Haibara? XD And if he's Haibara, does that Aang and his group=Shonen Tatei-dan? If it does, that means Iroh=Professor Agasa! XDDDD Amazing the thoughts that hit before bed.

[insaneladybug.livejournal.com]

Haha, I never read them either. XD I probably wouldn't have been allowed to even if I'd wanted, but I was never into horror and they didn't interest me in the least. I think I always kind of thought they looked stupid.

[candy--chan.livejournal.com]

In hindsight? They were. Heck, I think I knew deep down that they were at the time. But I still read 'em.

[candy--chan.livejournal.com]

To each their own z(^o^)b

...OH, NOW YOU'VE JUST GOT ME THINKING! *shakes fist at you and reaches for the mallet*

[ytak.livejournal.com]

Yep!

*cackles madly* I felt the idea was worth sharing with you. I'm still trying to figure out if I can write a fusion of the two.

[candy--chan.livejournal.com]

Where there's a will (and an author who can do it justice), there's a way! *cheers you on* Go go go!

[marsdejahthoris.livejournal.com]

Heh. Man, I remember the Fear St. books. I liked 'em, but I have an affection for bad pulp horror. And I mean BAD pulp horror. Brian Lumley, for instance. Goosebumps were too far below my reading level... I loved Christopher Pike, though, and then graduated to Stephen King.

[candy--chan.livejournal.com]

Nothing wrong with pulp horror! And as far as bad pulp horror goes...well, can't get much better than Fear Street *laugh* Some of them are just awful. And I don't think it's that good when I find myself hoping the antagonist wins, just because the protagonist is so god-awful and annoying XDD

I never got into Stephen King. Tried reading Carrie, but something about the writing style didn't work for me *shrug*

[theorygirl.livejournal.com]

I wasn't allowed to read the Goosebumps books, but I probably wouldn't have read them anyway. I was very easily freaked out as a child--just seeing the poster for the second Child's Play movie (when I was eight, I think) had me convinced that Chuckie was living in my bathroom and would come out and get me.
I love that blog, though. I've saved a few quotes from it, even.

[candy--chan.livejournal.com]

I was very easily scared as a child, too--and am still easily scared as an adult, to be honest--but...not quite to that extent XD Then again, the seance scene from Beetlejuice gave me nightmares for a week... XDD

It's a fun blog! Wonder if they'll ever get to the Fear Street Seniors books...I did like those ^^;;

[girlquinn.livejournal.com]

Oh, my friends and I are all over Fear Street! First Baby Sitters Club, then we grew up a little and though Fear Street was more hardcore.

But after a while, the stories got kind of redundant. It's the best friend that's murdering everyone, I tell you! I do remember one of the Fear Street spin-offs I regret not reading... it had something to do with the 1800's... and an amulet? Obviously, I didn't read this trilogy.

[candy--chan.livejournal.com]

I was a die-hard BSC fan, too! But like you said, growing up and discovering something a little bit more daring ^_~ But yes, you're right--in hindsight, it was sort of like a MadLibs.

"[character name] has everything--money, looks, an awesome boy/girlfriend, etc. Then people start dying, oh noes! S/he is convinced that it's [outcast character], but then all of a sudden, ZOMG, you find out that [character name]'s [boy/girlfriend/best friend/teacher/parent/puppy] was the murderer all along! SHOCK AND AMAZEMENT!"

...although I will give credit for some really unique, creative murder methods. Dropping someone into a printing press, then having it turn on to spray blood all over the main character? That was sick. Sick but morbidly cool. So long as it stays fictional.