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Aug 15, 2013 19:02
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Nutsngum posted:Reading up on RL Stine amazed me just how incredibly prolific he was. Between Goosebumps, the choose your own adventure goosebumps, Fear Street and etc.. he was probably pumping out an entire book in about a week. Ghostwriters. 
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Aug 15, 2013 19:03
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Nutsngum posted:Reading up on RL Stine amazed me just how incredibly prolific he was. Between Goosebumps, the choose your own adventure goosebumps, Fear Street and etc.. he was probably pumping out an entire book in about a week. Yeah, I read up on him before deciding to start this thread, and it was like he turned himself into a mini factory, just churning those things out. Some of the much later ones were ghostwritten, but still, must have put in some very long days when writing those.
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Aug 15, 2013 19:03
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 I owned this book as a kid, and it was completely awful. I liked most of RL Stine's stuff at the time, but this was garbage of epic proportions. This version would have been better in every meaningful way.
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Aug 15, 2013 19:12
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Oldstench posted:Can someone please explain the joke? Spoiler tagged as this is about the show "The Wire" and I don't want to give anything away to those who haven't seen it. The guy on the cover is "Bubbles", a character from the HBO show "The Wire." He was a homeless heroin addict who was living with his sister and she threw him out because he was stealing her stuff and selling it for money. Later in the series, she lets him back into her house and he is allowed to sleep there, but he has to stay locked in the basement and can only enter the house through the basement door, and must leave the house during daylight hours. At the very end of the series she finally lets him upstairs to have dinner with her.
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Aug 15, 2013 19:16
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QUEEN CAUCUS posted:Ghostwriters. There doesnt seem to be any evidence of this as far as I can tell. Its certainly very possible but the only things google can provide are basically either people speculating and stating it as fact, or people just speculating. Im also not sure about publication credits. I thought that the real writers had to be credited somewhere, although not necessarily on the front cover.
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Aug 15, 2013 19:19
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Nutsngum posted:Reading up on RL Stine amazed me just how incredibly prolific he was. Between Goosebumps, the choose your own adventure goosebumps, Fear Street and etc.. he was probably pumping out an entire book in about a week. My 5th grade class had a lady who was an author (can't remember her name, sorry) speak to us about her process and stuff. When she was doing Q/A at the end some kid asked her if she knew R.L. Stein. She told us that "R.L. Stine" was just a pen name that a group of three women who actually wrote Goosebumps used. I dunno if it is actually true or not. Maybe she just got tired of answering questions about Goosebumps and made up a dumb story. It would explain how Stein pushed so many books out I guess.
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Aug 15, 2013 19:21
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Nutsngum posted:There doesnt seem to be any evidence of this as far as I can tell. It's a joke, you humorless dummy.
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Aug 15, 2013 19:22
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zenintrude posted:It's a joke, you humorless dummy. 
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Aug 15, 2013 19:28
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Aug 15, 2013 19:39
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zenintrude posted:It's a joke, you humorless dummy. Hey man, Goosebumps is serious business.
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Aug 15, 2013 20:06
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Wait are they watching the hard way or are we supposed to be learning the hard way?
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Aug 15, 2013 21:54
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Gravel Gravy posted:Wait are they watching the hard way or are we supposed to be learning the hard way? "Goddammit stop stepping on my foot you rear end in a top hat- I know this kid's locker is cramped but come on man. Why did we have to do this the hard way?"
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Aug 15, 2013 22:36
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Hah! I work at BustedTees and we actually had a similar idea for a 'modernized' Goosebumps shirt a few months ago! One of our designers did a brand new digital painting for it: (Shameless plug, but you can buy it here: http://www.bustedtees.com/goosebumps ) VVVV Selling, yes. Buying, not so much. :-/ Randomosity fucked around with this message at 23:54 on Aug 15, 2013 |
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Aug 15, 2013 23:40
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Randomosity posted:Hah! I work at BustedTees and we actually had a similar idea for a 'modernized' Goosebumps shirt a few months ago! One of our designers did a brand new digital painting for it: Huh. Well now I know it's a good idea if people are selling shirts of it.
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Aug 15, 2013 23:46
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Randomosity posted:Hah! I work at BustedTees and we actually had a similar idea for a 'modernized' Goosebumps shirt a few months ago! One of our designers did a brand new digital painting for it: I keep reading the screen as "Fox News Crohns". It's strangely appropriate somehow.
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Aug 16, 2013 00:04
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Something the length of A Goosebumps book a week? I can see it. Back in the old pulp days, you'd see that kind of output a lot, and I remember reading that the Applegates had to work their asses off to fulfill Scholastic's contractual demands for the Animorphs series. I'm about ten years too old to have caught Goosebumps, but I wish we'd had that and Animorphs and the rest when I was a kid. They had to combine classroom orders at my school, because there weren't enough kids to make minimum orders separately.
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Aug 16, 2013 00:32
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Bieeardo posted:Something the length of A Goosebumps book a week? I can see it. Back in the old pulp days, you'd see that kind of output a lot, and I remember reading that the Applegates had to work their asses off to fulfill Scholastic's contractual demands for the Animorphs series. Every Animorphs book between the multi-parter about the aliens trying to kill the president and the final few books were ghostwritten.
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Aug 16, 2013 01:38
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poo poo, another Goosebumps thread. Pretty much the only case of buyer's remorse I've ever had came after the last Goosebumps thread, when I sort of lamented selling off all my old books and decided a good idea would be to buy the entire collection off ebay. Took one look through the box when it arrived, pretty much went 'yup, sure is Goosebumps' then never looked at them again 
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Aug 16, 2013 03:32
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That must have been some thread to make you want a Goosebumps collection of all things.
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Aug 16, 2013 04:43
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I asked my parents to buy me the books every time we were out, but I never read a single one of them; I just thought the covers looked neat. It's a shame the whole Goosebumps craze came and went by the time I really had the capacity to properly read and comprehend things. By that point it was all about Harry Potter, and 8 year old me could not abide the thought of reading a 200+ page book when there was a perfectly good N64 in the house. The book bug never had a chance to bite
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Aug 16, 2013 04:53
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 Too soon?
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Aug 16, 2013 05:10
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Bieeardo posted:Animorphs This being posted in this thread reminded me of an image that always brings a smile to my face: 
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Aug 16, 2013 05:20
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Manfrompoot posted:I asked my parents to buy me the books every time we were out, but I never read a single one of them; I just thought the covers looked neat. It's a shame the whole Goosebumps craze came and went by the time I really had the capacity to properly read and comprehend things. By that point it was all about Harry Potter, and 8 year old me could not abide the thought of reading a 200+ page book when there was a perfectly good N64 in the house. The book bug never had a chance to bite I was in the core demographic for Goosebumps, and for the most part thought they were the poo poo up through probably 5th Grade. I was a voracious reader as a kid, though, so I was also busting my way through Michael Crichton and whatever random fantasy novels I could find at the school library. Once I was allowed to ride my bike wherever I wanted, I mostly went to the real library and got in DEEP to Stephen King in like middle school  I also did the Harry Potter thing as a teenager because I was a big nerd at that time, still. Now I have a full time job, and a girlfriend who gets mad at me if I spend too much time not paying attention to her, so reading is hard. I have this heinous ongoing back log of books I want to read.
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Aug 16, 2013 13:11
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deadly_pudding posted:Now I have a full time job, and a girlfriend who gets mad at me if I spend too much time not paying attention to her, so reading is hard. I have this heinous ongoing back log of books I want to read. A woman who doesn't like a partner who reads is not a woman worth having. I was always scared shitless by the Goosebumps books so never for into them really.
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Aug 16, 2013 13:37
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deadly_pudding posted:a girlfriend who gets mad at me if I spend too much time not paying attention to her E/N is thataway.
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Aug 16, 2013 13:46
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Aug 16, 2013 14:14
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deadly_pudding posted:Now I have a full time job, and a girlfriend who gets mad at me if I spend too much time not paying attention to her, so reading is hard. I have this heinous ongoing back log of books I want to read. Witness Mr. Henry Bemis, a charter member in the fraternity of dreamers. A bookish little man whose passion is the printed page but who is conspired against by a bank president and a wife and a world full of tongue-cluckers and the unrelenting hands of a clock. But in just a moment, Mr. Bemis will enter a world without bank presidents or wives or clocks or anything else. He'll have a world all to himself - without anyone.
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Aug 16, 2013 14:16
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Snoggle posted:Witness Mr. Henry Bemis, a charter member in the fraternity of dreamers. A bookish little man whose passion is the printed page but who is conspired against by a bank president and a wife and a world full of tongue-cluckers and the unrelenting hands of a clock. But in just a moment, Mr. Bemis will enter a world without bank presidents or wives or clocks or anything else. He'll have a world all to himself - without anyone. Now make the Goosebumps cover.
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Aug 16, 2013 14:21
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The cuckoo clock of doom could sufice as a Henry Bemis vehicle
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Aug 16, 2013 14:23
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juicecube posted:The cuckoo clock of doom could sufice as a Henry Bemis vehicle Even as a kid, I found the whole part where the protagonist knocks the year his little brother was born off the clock and erases him from ever having existed to be pretty hosed up.
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Aug 16, 2013 14:28
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Snoggle posted:Witness Mr. Henry Bemis, a charter member in the fraternity of dreamers. A bookish little man whose passion is the printed page but who is conspired against by a bank president and a wife and a world full of tongue-cluckers and the unrelenting hands of a clock. But in just a moment, Mr. Bemis will enter a world without bank presidents or wives or clocks or anything else. He'll have a world all to himself - without anyone. It's me. I was the monster, all along.   With bonus Fear Street content.
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Aug 16, 2013 15:09
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Necros posted:My 5th grade class had a lady who was an author (can't remember her name, sorry) speak to us about her process and stuff. When she was doing Q/A at the end some kid asked her if she knew R.L. Stein. She told us that "R.L. Stine" was just a pen name that a group of three women who actually wrote Goosebumps used. I dunno if it is actually true or not. Maybe she just got tired of answering questions about Goosebumps and made up a dumb story. It would explain how Stein pushed so many books out I guess. If nothing else, there is a guy named R. L. Stine and he attends book conventions and teaches workshops and whatnot.
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Aug 16, 2013 16:34
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Pick posted:If nothing else, there is a guy named R. L. Stine and he attends book conventions and teaches workshops and whatnot. So I wiki'd him, and found there is a lota money in writing children's horror: quote:According to Forbes List of the 40 best-paid Entertainers of 1996-97, Stine placed 36th with an income of $41 million for the fiscal year.
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Aug 16, 2013 16:56
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Aw hell. I did something similar called "Weekend at the Anorexics Anonymous Company Picnic". I got a lot of these I did not too long ago. I'll post them later. quote:Even as a kid, I found the whole part where the protagonist knocks the year his little brother was born off the clock and erases him from ever having existed to be pretty hosed up. Not to sound like a nerd who remembers when she read those books, but, it was his little sister, actually. In trying to fix the cuckoo clock at the antique store, despite that he's gone back in time to when he was a baby, Michael knocked off 1988 accidentally. When he was brought back to his normal time, he asks his parents where his sister was and they don't know what he's talking about. Later, the dad tells Michael that he found an interesting flaw in the cuckoo clock: the year 1988 is missing. Michael realizes that that's why his sister doesn't exist. In the end, he mulls over whether or not he'll go back and fix it so that way she does exist, but, given how she humiliated him during his birthday party, you can draw the conclusion that it's never going to happen. Penny Paper fucked around with this message at 17:31 on Aug 16, 2013 |
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Aug 16, 2013 17:11
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Hometown Slime Queen fucked around with this message at 17:59 on Aug 16, 2013 |
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Aug 16, 2013 17:55
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 Not so much "Modern" as easy target. Polybious fucked around with this message at 19:05 on Aug 16, 2013 |
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Aug 16, 2013 18:07
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It's me again, back and with content. Click to see in full:              And the last one isn't from Goosebumps, but it is from the series "Ghosts of Fear Street," which is pretty much the Fear Street series for kids (and most of them did read like Goosebumps stories that didn't make it):  And I had that "Mad Masturbator" one titled as "Insert Masturbation Joke Here," because, sometimes, it's just too easy... 
Penny Paper fucked around with this message at 18:53 on Aug 16, 2013 |
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Aug 16, 2013 18:30
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deadly_pudding posted:Now I have a full time job, and a girlfriend who gets mad at me if I spend too much time not paying attention to her, so reading is hard. I have this heinous ongoing back log of books I want to read. The best laid plans of mice and men...and Deadly_Pudding...the small man in the glasses who wanted nothing but time. Deadly_pudding, now just a part of a smashed landscape, just a piece of the rubble, just a fragment of what man has deeded to himself. Mr. Deadly_Pudding...in the Twilight Zone.
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VendaGoat posted:
This would have gone south for me, anyway. I have no skill whatsoever in identifying edible plants in the wild, and everything is radioactive now. 
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Aug 16, 2013 19:43
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