R.L. Stine

[The Mothman]

aaaaaahhh. remember the good ol' days? Goosebumps. Fear street. How the fuck could one man write so many friggin books!!!??

[tom-tom]

Yeah, it is rather weird, huh?
What's your favourite Goosebumbs book? Mine is probably the one with the garden gnomes that come alive at night.

[urgeok]

it's probably like the hardy boys / nancy drew books ..

i think they are written by a lot of different people under one name.



i was too old for goosebumps but I've sold them on ebay.

the guy people really like is Christopher Pike ..

especially the Last Vampire series ..

i made a lot of $$$ off of those

[jenna26]

Oh, when I was twelve or so I loved Christopher Pike. He kicked Stine's ass, in my opinion. His books were full of sex, drugs, and fairly graphic violence. I mean, this was a young adult writer. Parents were pretty freaked out about him as I recall. My parents didn't seem to care...LOL...

I used to read the Fear Street books. And no way did he write all of those. Had to be several authors, like has already been suggested.

[barbra]

christopher pike was great.

[The STE]

Originally posted by The Mothman
aaaaaahhh. remember the good ol' days? Goosebumps. Fear street. How the fuck could one man write so many friggin books!!!??

Easy; the books were all the fucking same. Plug different characters, settings, and monsters into the formula. It's Mad Libs on a bigger scale. Fake-out scare for the first chapter, Fake-out villain, twist reveal of the real villain, et cetera. I've eaten better books than R.L. Stine's poorly-written tripe

[tom-tom]

Originally posted by jenna26
Oh, when I was twelve or so I loved Christopher Pike. He kicked Stine's ass, in my opinion. His books were full of sex, drugs, and fairly graphic violence. I mean, this was a young adult writer. Parents were pretty freaked out about him as I recall. My parents didn't seem to care...LOL...

I used to read the Fear Street books. And no way did he write all of those. Had to be several authors, like has already been suggested.


Me, too. I read quite a few of the Fear Street books...pretty good.

[The Mothman]

never heard of christopher pike, byut im sure when i was 6 or 7 my parents would NEVER let me read that stuff.

[jenna26]

Originally posted by The Mothman
never heard of christopher pike, byut im sure when i was 6 or 7 my parents would NEVER let me read that stuff.

No Pike was definitely not for that age group.....lol. But I was a tad precocious (that's one word for it :p ) for my age so my parents didn't censor me all that much. Hell, they took me to see A Nightmare On Elm Street when I was nine or ten.....we had to leave thirty minutes in, but they took me. ;)

Anyway, Pike's earlier stuff was decent for what it was and had imagination, which I don't really feel that Stine's books did. Or do. Whatever. It did kind of feel like reading the same book over and over again.

[urgeok]

christopher pike is also the name of the enterprise captain before kirk

(as shown in the pilot episode)

[The_Return]

I was kind of a fan...read 5-6 of his. Watched the TV version ALOT though

[nemesis]

He has written loads of them, indeed. Lots of inspiration!

I read them all, I think. When I was a little kid :p