Blogger Beware: The Goosebumps Blog
Between 1992 and 1997 R.L Stine made publishing history. His horror novels for children were listed as the fifteenth most challenged books of 1990-1999. But just like the blob who ate everyone, was he sorry about freaking out kids everywhere? Hell no. And thank the thing under the sink for that.
¨The golden era of GOOSEBUMPS has disappeared, but our memories of flawed plotlines, stupid taglines and cheap cliffhangers have not. Blogger Troy Steel is bravely revisiting each GOOSEBUMPS novel, noting that in 'Welcome to the Dead House' # 42 'Egg Monsters From Mars' when kids are bored with paranormal events then it's likely the reader is too. And in that the twist-ending is fine until the monster "stops and squats in the lawn and lays an egg."
Blogger Beware also makes you wonder how a guy has ejected himself from the real world to bring so much joy to the internet. Maybe it's the too-frequent Juno product placements. Still, it makes all those hours of hiding under your doona with a torch feel worthwhile.
Format: Online
Motivation: Kill twenty minutes dead
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