R.L. Stine
 

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

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.

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

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.

christopher pike was great.

Re: R.L. Stine
 

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

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

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.

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

(as shown in the pilot episode)