Goosebumps book series

[JayJayinMay]

ive read most of them in my youth,ansnd i can say they never gave me what they advertise on the front,goosebumps.Seriously.

And anyway,why are all the characters 12 years old?

 

[SmartIdiot]

The characters were all 12 because that was the target audience. I was more of a Point Horror kid. Now those books were... marginally more scary than Goosebumps.

 

[shedra]

Where do you expect this topic to go?
They're like the Rattata's of literature. They suck and there are a million of them. There isn't reason to have one either. The books are bad. They're for children that smell and can't make friends.

 

[Citrus]

The characters are all 12-years-old because the books are marketed to 12-year-olds. That's also why they aren't meant to be particularly frightening.

 

[Sleekgiant]

Those books were directed at kids(or pedophiles!?), thus everyone will be younger. The books could never have been to scary of course, otherwise parents wouldn't buy them.

 

[SnootyEnglishman]

The books were marketed towards kid who were 12 years old or younger. I read them at that age and i watched the movies and TV show..all got stupid after about twice times.

 

[Pariah87]

There's even elitism towards childrens books? Bloody hell.

I was around 10 when I read them. At one point I owned all of the original series, by the time Goosebumps 2000 came out I was growing out of them so didn't bother. Those, along with the Spooksville series by Christopher Pike formed the majority of my reading back then.

They're for children that smell and can't make friends.

Dude really? On a gaming forum where the same could be said about 80% of the interests of the demographic on here? A book is a book, a game is a game, a film is a film. If it doesn't fit whatever standards you as an individual have, then don't read them, why bash the people that did and enjoyed them?

No, they were not scary, but they were an introduction. From there, childrens interest in the horror genre developed. Unless you think we should mass market Childs Play to 10 year olds, although history would suggest that doesn't work out very well, then surely it's better to give them Night of the Living Dummy?

 

[chartoc]

I read some of the books but they were not scary expect for Night of the Living Dummy. Slappy was creepy with a fitting voice in the show and the ending to that episode could give some adults chills.

 

[Jumplion]

Most of the Goosebumps series was terribad. However, the Animorphs series. THAT WAS AWESOME!

Hmm, I remember seeing the Animorphs book series when I was younger though I never actually read them.

As for Goosebumps, I've read a few when I was younger. They were never really "scary" but they were entertaining enough when I had nothing to do.

 

[busterkeatonrules]

I remember reading the first one, when they came out in Norway. I never bothered to read another - I realized quite quickly that the books themselves would never deliver anything close to what the plot summary on the back promised.

I did read the summaries, though. The CONCEPTS were usually decent enough!

Also, may I recommend this website:

http://www.bloggerbeware.com/2006/03/01-welcome-to-dead-house.html

 

[Good morning blues]

Surprise: a scary book series for preteens and younger isn't actually all that scary. Were you expecting scary stories for children to read like a novelization of the Texas Chainsaw Massacre?

 

[RJ Dalton]

Where do you expect this topic to go?
They're like the Rattata's of literature. They suck and there are a million of them. There isn't reason to have one either. The books are bad. They're for children that smell and can't make friends.

My best friend was really into those books when he was younger and he does not smell that bad. He never was very good at making friends, though. I never liked them myself, but that's because I didn't understand the difference between intent of the author and marketing. Goosebumps weren't meant to be scary, they were more of a parody of horror. At least, that's why I think about it when I look back on what little I remember of them. Even then, though, they probably weren't very good parodies.

 

[Cliff_m85]

Surprise: a scary book series for preteens and younger isn't actually all that scary. Were you expecting scary stories for children to read like a novelization of the Texas Chainsaw Massacre?

I liked them, but that was because my school held a contest where if you read enough books you could throw a pie at a teacher.

When I was 6 my father would read to me every night, one time I decided I'd read to him so I ran and grabbed his book. Took about two months, but I read "The Wasteland" by Stephen King to him. Good memories.

 

[Z(ombie)fan]

I always like the excellent pacing of the MONSTER BLOOD series, though overall goosebumps is proof that R.L. stine does not deserve to write (and honestly, his other books are pretty good,if your retarded and dont know how to read.)

 

[Z(ombie)fan]

Surprise: a scary book series for preteens and younger isn't actually all that scary. Were you expecting scary stories for children to read like a novelization of the Texas Chainsaw Massacre?

I liked them, but that was because my school held a contest where if you read enough books you could throw a pie at a teacher.

When I was 6 my father would read to me every night, one time I decided I'd read to him so I ran and grabbed his book. Took about two months, but I read "The Wasteland" by Stephen King to him. Good memories.

thats awesome.

 

[Marter]

I remember that series. It was a good read when I was about 7 years old.