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Does he read the Archie Sonic Comics? I always thought they'd be a dream for a guy like Chris who loves Sonic so much to read.
Chris and Goosebumps
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Big_Pete_33
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I'm surprised he never put Dr. Seuss into his books.
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Big_Pete_33 said:
Too complicated for him.
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Considering Chris' reading level is only advanced enough to read Goosebumps, I would be really surprised if he even got past the first few pages before he decided that that book was too boring and spend the rest of his class time sleeping and dreaming about all the adventures Sonichu and the gang are having and the good life that God and the Bear were BASICALLY PROMISING him.CompyRex said:
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Mayor McCheese said:
He knew enough about them to think he'd be working for Archie Comics at some point...
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blackie toy said:
Man, mentioning that one takes me back.
I don't think Goosebumps is bad per se; it's certainly not the most challenging book series out there but in my opinion it's just another young adult reader from the 90's. It's no different than Babysitters' Club or Animorphs.
For me, it's more about what you DO with your experiences in reading than what you're reading. Goosebumps was an important book series to a friend of mine when we were both kids. He read (and probably owned) the entire series and even went as far as to write Goosebumps fanfiction (typewritten and everything, I remember him being proud of that). Yes, that fanfiction was terrible; I distinctly remember the horribly botched sentence "the dog woke up in fierce" appearing in it. Fast forward 20 years and this same person is now a published author with a pretty decent life. Last time we spoke he wasn't an author full-time but he wasn't doing that badly for himself either.
Chris didn't take that same inspiration from Goosebumps considering how much he apparently loved the series, so to an extent it was all just wasted on him.
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JeffGoldblumIRL said:blackie toy said:
Man, mentioning that one takes me back.
I don't think Goosebumps is bad per se; it's certainly not the most challenging book series out there but in my opinion it's just another young adult reader from the 90's. It's no different than Babysitters' Club or Animorphs.
For me, it's more about what you DO with your experiences in reading than what you're reading. Goosebumps was an important book series to a friend of mine when we were both kids. He read (and probably owned) the entire series and even went as far as to write Goosebumps fanfiction (typewritten and everything, I remember him being proud of that). Yes, that fanfiction was terrible; I distinctly remember the horribly botched sentence "the dog woke up in fierce" appearing in it. Fast forward 20 years and this same person is now a published author with a pretty decent life. Last time we spoke he wasn't an author full-time but he wasn't doing that badly for himself either.
Chris didn't take that same inspiration from Goosebumps considering how much he apparently loved the series, so to an extent it was all just wasted on him.
There's no question Goosebumps has its place. The problem - like pretty much everything else from Chris' childhood - is that he never takes the next step. He never graduated from little kids' books to adult horror (which, given its increase in tits and china, would probably interest him a great deal more.)
That said, there are so many other young adult books on the market that are better written than Goosebumps. Narnia, The Hobbit, and Maradonia and the Seven Bridges, just to name a few.
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I remember the books being all the rage back in elementary school.
I've never really read the books except for those choose your adventure books. And thy weren't scary at all. And I was probably 10 when I read them.
I do remember some episodes of the TV series being kinda creepy. Particularly the one about the Tower. Then there was one about an evil sponge or something from under a sink. Which I found pretty stupid.
I've never really read the books except for those choose your adventure books. And thy weren't scary at all. And I was probably 10 when I read them.
I do remember some episodes of the TV series being kinda creepy. Particularly the one about the Tower. Then there was one about an evil sponge or something from under a sink. Which I found pretty stupid.
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scorptatious said:
I've recently watched some Goosebumps on Netflix with my roommate after seeing JonTron's Halloween episode about it. The endings to these stories are a hell of a lot more morbid and macabre than I remember as a kid.
In one of them where this kid gets a time-controlling TV remote he ends up getting trapped in a purgatory-esque void presumably for all eternity.
The kids' dad in Stay Out of the Basement ends up "dead" at the end, turned into a plant, while a body snatchers version of their father flawlessly mingles among the other humans.
After the family escapes from Horrorland, their car gets hijacked by the remote control device placed on it and their station wagon is driven off a fucking cliff.
The kids' dad in Stay Out of the Basement ends up "dead" at the end, turned into a plant, while a body snatchers version of their father flawlessly mingles among the other humans.
After the family escapes from Horrorland, their car gets hijacked by the remote control device placed on it and their station wagon is driven off a fucking cliff.
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scorptatious said:
They definitely were the thing to read at one point. It is another example, like Pokemon, sonic and lego, of Chris living like a pre-teen from the 90's.
The main difference is that there is no nostalgia market like Pokemon, or to a lesser extent Sonic, or advanced adult versions, like lego. There is no excuse for it, it is just having the mindset of a 10 year old in 1992. It is embarrassing.
It also invalidates any of his other interests.
"He is into Pokemon? Maybe he is a connoisseur of vintage gaming."]
P "Well he is into Goosebumps, too" "Oh, never mind then, he is just immature"
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bradsternum said:JeffGoldblumIRL said:blackie toy said:
Man, mentioning that one takes me back.
I don't think Goosebumps is bad per se; it's certainly not the most challenging book series out there but in my opinion it's just another young adult reader from the 90's. It's no different than Babysitters' Club or Animorphs.
For me, it's more about what you DO with your experiences in reading than what you're reading. Goosebumps was an important book series to a friend of mine when we were both kids. He read (and probably owned) the entire series and even went as far as to write Goosebumps fanfiction (typewritten and everything, I remember him being proud of that). Yes, that fanfiction was terrible; I distinctly remember the horribly botched sentence "the dog woke up in fierce" appearing in it. Fast forward 20 years and this same person is now a published author with a pretty decent life. Last time we spoke he wasn't an author full-time but he wasn't doing that badly for himself either.
Chris didn't take that same inspiration from Goosebumps considering how much he apparently loved the series, so to an extent it was all just wasted on him.
There's no question Goosebumps has its place. The problem - like pretty much everything else from Chris' childhood - is that he never takes the next step. He never graduated from little kids' books to adult horror (which, given its increase in tits and china, would probably interest him a great deal more.)
That said, there are so many other young adult books on the market that are better written than Goosebumps. Narnia, The Hobbit, and Maradonia and the Seven Bridges, just to name a few.
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