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Wordy Words on WordsLast camp book in the original Goosebumps series! This is definitely my favorite camp book in the Goosebumps series. It has everything: gaslighting, ghosts, attempted murder, snakes, and betrayal. It was also scarier than a LOT of other Goosebumps books and it made me start thinking about JK Rowling. The genius of (the morally questionable) Rowling was that her books graduated in difficulty, subject matter, and characterization as they went on. Kids who were eleven when the first Harry Potter book came out got to grow up WITH Harry and deal with more and more mature things right next to him as they had to deal with more mature things in their own lives. It was brilliant. And I’m not saying Stine is Rowling or anything (Stine is OBVIOUSLY better than Rowling even if he never read the story I sent him as a kid. At least he’s not a TERF. That I know of - please don’t correct me), but the books have been getting scarier and it would be WILD if the last one served as a bridge to the scarier and far more violent Fear Street books. Imagine: A kid goes through a scarier than average Goosebumps story and the family moves in the end like Welcome to Dead House only pull up to a new house in a new town and the kid gets out to survey the scene. It’s quiet and he realizes that there aren’t any birds singing. And it’s chilly even though it’s summer. And what does that street sign say? “Fear Street? What kind of town names a street like that?” And then nothing. That’s the end. I think that would have been the coolest think Stine could have done but, alas, it didn’t work out like that. 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Wordy Words on WordsWhen I originally read this, I was impressed that the kid could basically fall asleep on command. I’m pretty quick to fall asleep and my wife gets pretty jealous of it, but I can’t just zonk out when I’m super stressed about things - like I can only imagine this kid was. And I really enjoyed the fever dream state of this book. Absolutely dreadful episode of the show, but the book was good. Except for one thing: You know how in movies they sometimes try to be cute and slip in names as an homage to the movie-maker’s influences? Like how in Friday the 13th, Tommy was at Karloff’s Garage? Or how in Scream, Rose McGowan said “Wes Carpenter?” And you know how it NEVER feels natural? These names are critical to the point where they seem almost unique to that individual. Are there other people named Wes? Sure! But in the context of horror movies, is there really any other Wes? Or a Karloff? It takes me right out of the story. It’s even harder in books because I can’t exactly read when my eyes are rolling in my head. That said, Stine has avoided it almost entirely until this book. He fell HARD in this book. Two characters. One named Bruce. One named Wayne. 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Wordy Words on WordsThis one really got me as a kid. “Jaw open, squealing at the twist“ kind of got me. I thought the twist was perfect. RL Stine said in his defense that no kids ever succumb to any real danger in his books and I genuinely can’t tell you if that’s because he doesn’t remember what he wrote, doesn’t remember what his ghostwriters wrote, or was so positive that no parent was going to verify his claims. Because we aren’t that deep into the series and a kid dies in a fire. In chapter one. The story centers on said dead kid as they think that THEIR new neighbor is a g-g-g-GHOST! But it turns out no! THEY’RE the ghost. They’ve been the ghost this whole time! I’m telling you, it blew my tiny little kid brain the first time I read it. <a href="https://pixelfed.social/discover/tags/horrorbooks?src=hash" class="u-url hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#horrorbooks</a> <a href="https://pixelfed.social/discover/tags/horrorbookstagram?src=hash" class="u-url hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#horrorbookstagram</a> <a href="https://pixelfed.social/discover/tags/readmore?src=hash" class="u-url hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#readmore</a> <a href="https://pixelfed.social/discover/tags/readmorebooks?src=hash" class="u-url hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#readmorebooks</a> <a href="https://pixelfed.social/discover/tags/readmorehorror?src=hash" class="u-url hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#readmorehorror</a> <a href="https://pixelfed.social/discover/tags/wordywordsonwords?src=hash" class="u-url hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#wordywordsonwords</a> <a href="https://pixelfed.social/discover/tags/goosebumps?src=hash" class="u-url hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#goosebumps</a> <a href="https://pixelfed.social/discover/tags/goosebumpsbooks?src=hash" class="u-url hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#goosebumpsbooks</a> <a href="https://pixelfed.social/discover/tags/goosebumpsseries?src=hash" class="u-url hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#goosebumpsseries</a> <a href="https://pixelfed.social/discover/tags/bookstagram?src=hash" class="u-url hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#bookstagram</a> <a href="https://pixelfed.social/discover/tags/book?src=hash" class="u-url hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#book</a> <a href="https://pixelfed.social/discover/tags/books?src=hash" class="u-url hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#books</a> <a href="https://pixelfed.social/discover/tags/bookrecommendations?src=hash" class="u-url hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#bookrecommendations</a> <a href="https://pixelfed.social/discover/tags/booklover?src=hash" class="u-url hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#booklover</a> <a href="https://pixelfed.social/discover/tags/bookaddict?src=hash" class="u-url hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#bookaddict</a> <a href="https://pixelfed.social/discover/tags/bookaholic?src=hash" class="u-url hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#bookaholic</a> <a href="https://pixelfed.social/discover/tags/constantreader?src=hash" class="u-url hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#constantreader</a> <a href="https://pixelfed.social/discover/tags/books?src=hash" class="u-url hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#books</a> <a href="https://pixelfed.social/discover/tags/bookrecommendation?src=hash" class="u-url hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#bookrecommendation</a> <a href="https://pixelfed.social/discover/tags/booktok?src=hash" class="u-url hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#booktok</a> <a href="https://pixelfed.social/discover/tags/bookstagram?src=hash" class="u-url hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#bookstagram</a> <a href="https://pixelfed.social/discover/tags/bookstagrammer?src=hash" class="u-url hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#bookstagrammer</a> <a href="https://pixelfed.social/discover/tags/booksky?src=hash" class="u-url hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#booksky</a> <a href="https://pixelfed.social/discover/tags/readersofpixelfed?src=hash" class="u-url hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#readersofpixelfed</a> <a href="https://pixelfed.social/discover/tags/read?src=hash" class="u-url hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#read</a> <a href="https://pixelfed.social/discover/tags/readinglog?src=hash" class="u-url hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#readinglog</a>

Wordy Words on WordsWe all know this one, right? A kid finds a weird camera and takes pictures of things only to find out that the picture that the camera spits out shows the subject in an accident, an injury, or straight-up GONE. Hijinks ensue. So far, this is the most frustrating book of the lot. I get that we’re talking about kids here, but there was a ton of gaslighting when everyone watched as a kid took a picture of someone on the stairs and then, later, the kid fell off said stairs. The picture showed the fall and everyone told each other “you took the picture as he fell.”⁠ ⁠ And they all bought it.⁠ ⁠ Then more “weird,” pictures were taken and not only did everyone not believe that something was off, one wanted the kid with the camera to bring it to her birthday party so he could take pictures of all the guests! ⁠ It was beyond frustrating that there wasn’t any logic used by the characters - BASIC logic - and then Stine threw an unexplained potential escape clause in there when a kid rips up a picture and a girl who had disappeared pops back into existence. The kid thinks maybe this is because they ripped up the picture, but this doesn’t go anywhere.⁠ ⁠ Ugh. This one was never one of my favorites. Even as a small kid it drove me nuts how dumb the characters were. ⁠ ⁠ It does have one of the coolest covers, though.⁠ <a href="https://pixelfed.social/discover/tags/rlstine?src=hash" class="u-url hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#rlstine</a> <a href="https://pixelfed.social/discover/tags/rlstinegoosebumps?src=hash" class="u-url hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#rlstinegoosebumps</a> <a href="https://pixelfed.social/discover/tags/rlstinebooks?src=hash" class="u-url hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#rlstinebooks</a> <a href="https://pixelfed.social/discover/tags/saycheeseanddie?src=hash" class="u-url hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#saycheeseanddie</a> <a href="https://pixelfed.social/discover/tags/goosebumps?src=hash" class="u-url hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#goosebumps</a> <a href="https://pixelfed.social/discover/tags/goosebumpsbooks?src=hash" class="u-url hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#goosebumpsbooks</a> <a href="https://pixelfed.social/discover/tags/bookstagram?src=hash" class="u-url hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#bookstagram</a> <a href="https://pixelfed.social/discover/tags/book?src=hash" class="u-url hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#book</a> <a href="https://pixelfed.social/discover/tags/books?src=hash" class="u-url hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#books</a> <a href="https://pixelfed.social/discover/tags/bookrecommendations?src=hash" class="u-url hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#bookrecommendations</a> <a href="https://pixelfed.social/discover/tags/bookreview?src=hash" class="u-url hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#bookreview</a> <a href="https://pixelfed.social/discover/tags/wordywordsonwords?src=hash" class="u-url hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#wordywordsonwords</a> <a href="https://pixelfed.social/discover/tags/booklovers?src=hash" class="u-url hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#booklovers</a> <a href="https://pixelfed.social/discover/tags/read?src=hash" class="u-url hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#read</a> <a href="https://pixelfed.social/discover/tags/readersgonnaread?src=hash" class="u-url hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#readersgonnaread</a> <a href="https://pixelfed.social/discover/tags/readmorebooks?src=hash" class="u-url hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#readmorebooks</a> <a href="https://pixelfed.social/discover/tags/readmore?src=hash" class="u-url hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#readmore</a> <a href="https://pixelfed.social/discover/tags/readmorehorror?src=hash" class="u-url hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#readmorehorror</a> <a href="https://pixelfed.social/discover/tags/nostalgia?src=hash" class="u-url hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#nostalgia</a> <a href="https://pixelfed.social/discover/tags/1990s?src=hash" class="u-url hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#1990s</a>

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