|
Kaedric posted:Jeremy Thatcher, dragon hatcher? poo poo, I think that was it. I should re-read that poo poo, that dragon was rad as gently caress.
|
#
?
Aug 17, 2016 14:36
|
|
|
|
| # ? Apr 24, 2024 13:51 |
|
|
Couple horror books I remember reading when I was little, not Goosebumps or anything One of them had a house that was haunted or otherwise spooky for some reason, and one of the key revelations was when the protagonist was in the attic and realized it didn't have a window despite there being an attic window visible from outside the house so there must be a second secret extra scary attic. Maybe this second attic had a ghost or a corpse or something I forget The other one I remember that I think is from the same series had a guy/ghost that the protagonist saw through a sliding glass window, he lifted his hat or turned towards him or something to reveal empty eye sockets while moaning THEY TOOK MY EEEEYYYYYEEEEESSSSSS I thought of these books while watching Stranger Things because I (mis?)remember the title font being the same
|
|
#
?
Aug 17, 2016 14:40
|
|
|
1500quidporsche posted:I couldn't even tell you the central plot but I vividly remember my teacher reading a book where one of the B plots was this store owner having a piece of rope outside his shop that was all knotted up to the point where it was described as being the size of a basketball or something similar. In the third act (I'm pretty sure after the actual plot is resolved) the main character comes in and its described in pain staking detail the process of undoing this knot. There may have also been a pig in the book at some point but I'm not really confident on that. Maniac Magee. The store was a pizza shop IIRC and he won a lifetime supply of pizza, which he donated to poor kids to get them to go to school or something???
|
|
#
?
Aug 17, 2016 14:46
|
|
|
Len posted:The last about a school where the plans where wrong and instead of being built on the ground it ended being built straight up like a skyscraper. Sideways Stories from Wayside School I believe I remember ordering a bunch of novels from Paul Zindel through our school book fair program. He was most well known for writing The Pigman and Effects of Gamma Rays on Man-In-The-Moon Marigold- neither of which are horror stories- but apparently he felt like there weren't enough horror novels for young adults with graphic detail. He wrote one about the loch ness monster eating people, another about freakish cannibal humanoids living under Stonehenge, and another about huge voracious sea creatures taking over a normally peace stretch of water and brutally killing people. I remember one line in particular in the sea creatures one where a guy watches his bottom half fall into the ocean with his lower intestine trailing out of it. Basically fuckin' 
|
|
#
?
Aug 17, 2016 14:50
|
|
|
I could have sworn that Interstellar Pig went under a different name, because I strongly remember some kind of Z word being associated with it (only in the book itself?). I mostly remember the back cover showing a kind of unfinished tabletop game with the little glowing pig piece sitting there. And that's got to be like the 4th Maniac Magee reference. Screw that kid, I wanna know more about old schlubs bringing down the antichrist while teaming up with blow job giving monkeys 
|
|
#
?
Aug 17, 2016 14:51
|
|
|
Applewhite posted:A girl who flies into space in a ship with no canopy because it turns out there's air in space but nobody bothered to check. I wanna say it's"Akimbo" but that returns no results. Hahahaha awesome
|
|
#
?
Aug 17, 2016 14:55
|
|
|
Gabriel Pope posted:Maniac Magee. The store was a pizza shop IIRC and he won a lifetime supply of pizza, which he donated to poor kids to get them to go to school or something??? That name sounds right and the plot about the kid being a drifter lines up so I'm pretty sure this is it.
|
|
#
?
Aug 17, 2016 14:56
|
|
|
Applewhite posted:The White Mountains blew my mind when I was a kid and the sequels, City of Gold and Lead and The Pool of Fire also blew my mind. The face of Hollywood's next blockbuster YA adaptation: 
|
|
#
?
Aug 17, 2016 14:57
|
|
|
Gabriel Pope posted:Maniac Magee. The store was a pizza shop IIRC and he won a lifetime supply of pizza, which he donated to poor kids to get them to go to school or something??? maniac maniac he's so cool maniac maniac don't go to school runs all night runs all night maniac maniac kissed a mule also "fishbelly" as a terrible slur against whites
|
|
#
?
Aug 17, 2016 14:58
|
|
|
Wicker Man posted:One where the cafeteria of a middle school are run by some kind of evolved monster bug people that served deliciously addicting food made from bugs. I think they killed it with mustard of all things. Gabriel Pope posted:Also remember reading a contemporary book where a magical peddler shows up in some small quaint New England town hawking some sort of special polish, and the secret is that whatever you shine with it becomes an animated object and starts attacking people. This really broke my suspension of disbelief because it was like the 80s and who the gently caress was buying miracle ointment from traveling patent doctors in the loving 80s? The climax involved a fight with an animated giant buzzsaw blade because the village idiot had shined up the saw in the local lumber mill. It was defeated by the powers of HOMEMADE LYE SOAP, which again, this is the loving 80s, nobody was making homemade soap while watching Alf. I suspect whoever wrote this book was about 90.
|
|
#
?
Aug 17, 2016 14:59
|
|
|
1500quidporsche posted:That name sounds right and the plot about the kid being a drifter lines up so I'm pretty sure this is it. I looked it up a few years ago and apparently racism was a major part of the plot, but all I remembered was the pizza and baseball parts. 8-year-old Gabe had his priorities straight.
|
|
#
?
Aug 17, 2016 15:00
|
|
|
ConstantDelays posted:This is very familiar. I want to say it was one of the 'Animorph' books? Nah. I might have gave the wrong impression about "evolved bug monsters." I think it was just one, cartoonishly evil bug monster that disguises itself as a cafeteria lady. There are quite a few pages going into detail about the other kids and school staff scarfing down french fries made out of grasshoppers or something.
|
|
#
?
Aug 17, 2016 15:03
|
|
|
ConstantDelays posted:This is very familiar. I want to say it was one of the 'Animorph' books? It was about inanimate objects coming to life and attacking people in New England, but Stephen King idolizes the 50s-70s, which is still too late for whatever weird period boner this book had. Maybe it was written by Stephen King's dad and that's where he got it from??? idk
|
|
#
?
Aug 17, 2016 15:03
|
|
|
Gabriel Pope posted:I looked it up a few years ago and apparently racism was a major part of the plot, but all I remembered was the pizza and baseball parts. 8-year-old Gabe had his priorities straight. For years the only thing I knew about it was the knot. Apparently all the racism and homelessness poo poo flew right over my head.
|
|
#
?
Aug 17, 2016 15:09
|
|
|
I remember a book with a guy who received radio transmissions on his tooth, and an evil alien that died from eating too many red pepper flakes. I remember a book about mitochondria being angels or something and the sun was dying and something something old testament.
|
|
#
?
Aug 17, 2016 15:12
|
|
|
Wicker Man posted:Nah. I might have gave the wrong impression about "evolved bug monsters." I think it was just one, cartoonishly evil bug monster that disguises itself as a cafeteria lady. There are quite a few pages going into detail about the other kids and school staff scarfing down french fries made out of grasshoppers or something.
|
|
#
?
Aug 17, 2016 15:11
|
|
|
Applewhite posted:A horror anthology about "true stories of evil nature" and one of the stories was about a lady who fell down in her garden and vines grew around her neck and she was strangled to death. The label "true stories" can pretty much be discounted as spin when it comes to horror stories. The second short story you mention is possibly 'The Wind" in Ray Bradbury's own collection, "The October Country": https://www.cliffsnotes.com/literature/b/bradburys-short-stories/summary-and-analysis-the-october-country/the-wind Your other story might appear in the same book, though Bradbury's stories have been included in hundreds of general horror anthologies.
|
|
#
?
Aug 17, 2016 15:21
|
|
|
Twelve Batmans posted:Sideways Stories from Wayside School I believe wayside school is some next level poo poo. some of the stories were wild, i mean loving wild a story about a new kid who smells really bad and they force him to take his jacket off and he's just a matryoshka doll of jackets and the jacket dude is screaming as all the kids are tearing his clothes off and at the center is just a dead rat the teacher is like 'ok gross' and throws it out the window. end chapter kid stumbles into room 27 1/2 never having heard of it before or seeing it despite being next to his class and i don't remember what happens but its basically the set up from Being John Malcovich. except im pretty sure it predates that movie by a while. or im mixing that movie up with the book. idk. there was also a story about some kid who kept trying to pull the pigtails of the girl in front of him and they turn into snakes when he grabs them.
|
|
#
?
Aug 17, 2016 15:23
|
|
|
BigBadSteve posted:Juvenile science fiction novel, 1970's or before. A boy makes a loving wooden crate or similar into a spaceship and flies into space (maybe to the moon or another planet, I forget). I guess I should have googled it before- asking here. Turns out this book was James Blish's Welcome to Mars!
|
|
#
?
Aug 17, 2016 15:24
|
|
|
I remember reading some sci-fi book where there are a bunch of sentient ball robot sphere things that float around and I think they are like the rulers of humans now or something. Then some kid maybe befriends one and some stuff happens but I don't remember. I recall reading it a couple times and really liked it but have never been able to figure out what the title was.
|
|
#
?
Aug 17, 2016 16:23
|
|
|
BigBadSteve posted:The label "true stories" can pretty much be discounted as spin when it comes to horror stories. The second short story was definitely Bradbury's"the Wind." I remember the Himalayas thing and the valley of the wind.
|
|
#
?
Aug 17, 2016 16:48
|
|
|
The wayside story where Mrs. Gorf's son with the third nostril stole all the children's voices and called their parents and told them in their kids' voices that they didn't love them any more really scared me as a kid and ever since I have made it a point to regularly remind my loved ones that I love them no matter what.
|
|
#
?
Aug 17, 2016 16:53
|
|
|
something about a witch and a little boy who tags along with her.
|
|
#
?
Aug 17, 2016 16:56
|
|
|
nigga crab pollock posted:theres a few pages out of a nat geo space book circa 1980 or somethin that are like this. a teacher had it i think idk i def read it I remember that one Titan had floating helium filled jellyfish like creatures
|
|
#
?
Aug 17, 2016 16:56
|
|
|
- A kid and his family look for the lake monster in Lake Champlain. I don't remember much else but the title was like 'Loch' or something and I remember feeling ripped off because it had nothing to do with Nessie. - Some 50s sci-fi novel about a prison rebellion on Alpha Centauri. - Something called 'Space Cadets' that was a series about cadets in a space academy getting into "wacky" space hi-jinks. - A guide about wrestling alligators. For kids. - A novel about some kinda cross-country road trip for fried chicken. - One with about a bunch of woodland creatures and their forest community. I think at one point there was a flood? (No it wasn't Redwall). I mostly remember it as the first time I faked reading a book for a book report. - A CYOA where you're a fighter pilot for the Space Navy and most of the options ended with you getting exploded. I also read 'The Man With the Golden Gun' for a report in 6th grade and read the scene with the oiled up chick dancing on giant hand statue like ten times. Also that year I read 'Red Mars' and had to read the dirt orgy scene like twenty times because my sixth grader brain could unpack what the gently caress was even happening but it totally says erection so I guess it's hot? Then I did my last book report that year on 'The Great Train Robbery' and was really grossed out by the scene where a dude fucks a 12 year old hooker and the robbers make a copy of his key or something? I dunno, I just remember skipping to the next chapter.
|
|
#
?
Aug 17, 2016 16:57
|
|
|
ConstantDelays posted:This is very familiar. I want to say it was one of the 'Animorph' books? not enough allusions to cocaine use
|
|
#
?
Aug 17, 2016 16:58
|
|
|
1500quidporsche posted:For years the only thing I knew about it was the knot. Apparently all the racism and homelessness poo poo flew right over my head. (Dripping ink) FISH BELLY GO HOME
|
|
#
?
Aug 17, 2016 17:00
|
|
|
ConstantDelays posted:That's exactly how I remember it. I'm sure it's from some fairly mainstream series like Goosebumps or Animorphs or something. Now I'm starting to wonder. It might have been part of some smaller series, but I keep thinking it was just one of those one off books.  My parents got me a couple of these. Even back then it wasn't lost on me that they might be trying to say something 
Wicker Man fucked around with this message at 17:04 on Aug 17, 2016 |
|
#
?
Aug 17, 2016 17:01
|
|
|
This is probably the best children's book I've read: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Brothers_Lionheart It's dark as gently caress, especially considering the target audience. Hell, maybe that's part of what makes it so compelling.
|
|
#
?
Aug 17, 2016 17:07
|
|
|
Applewhite posted:Oh, here's one that's been bugging me for a while: This one was Mega Man 9
|
|
#
?
Aug 17, 2016 17:06
|
|
|
Something something about a black kid named "Mars Bar" because he always ate Mars bars and then a white kid took a bite of Mars Bar's Mars Bar and all the other kids were like "woah!" Also contained my first encounter with the anti Jewish Slur "kike"
|
|
#
?
Aug 17, 2016 17:11
|
|
|
Applewhite posted:Something something about a black kid named "Mars Bar" because he always ate Mars bars and then a white kid took a bite of Mars Bar's Mars Bar and all the other kids were like "woah!" Also Maniac Magee (every unidentified book in this thread is actually Maniac Magee)
|
|
#
?
Aug 17, 2016 17:13
|
|
|
Gabriel Pope posted:Also Maniac Magee (every unidentified book in this thread is actually Maniac Magee) New thread title.
|
|
#
?
Aug 17, 2016 17:14
|
|
|
nigga crab pollock posted:there was also a story about some kid who kept trying to pull the pigtails of the girl in front of him and they turn into snakes when he grabs them.
|
|
#
?
Aug 17, 2016 18:20
|
|
|
Speaking of animorphs and pickles, I remember a really corny (joke within a joke, within a joke) book about teenagers that somehow gained the power to turn into vegetables and become super healthy or something from it. And all their friends were getting turned into zombies by some kind of evil bacteria or something. Maybe alien spores?
|
|
#
?
Aug 17, 2016 18:25
|
|
|
Prettz posted:The first book I read was based on the NES game Wizards and Warriors, except a kid from today (the 80s) gets transported to that world and accompanies the hero. I can't imagine how awful it must have been, but I read the whole thing. Hah I read that. He's transported there by a little statue in his dad's attic. He slays all kind of poo poo with kuros and then at the end...it turns out his dad did it when he was a kid too 
|
|
#
?
Aug 17, 2016 18:28
|
|
|
oh you guys were thinking of one of the Fear Street books. earlier. one of you
|
|
#
?
Aug 17, 2016 18:31
|
|
|
Hogge Wild posted:do they live in their aunt's attic maybe... i don't think so really. but maybe. why?
|
|
#
?
Aug 17, 2016 18:32
|
|
|
I remember this one book I really enjoyed about English/Dutch settlers going to Spanish conquistador occupied Florida and this adolescent sailor watches his entire crew get killed by the Spaniards then has to avoid the conquistadors in the Florida swamps and everglades. Along the way he becomes friends with an escaped slave child who takes him to a native village and eats venison where he plots revenge against the conquistadors. I think. It was kickass but I never finished it 
|
|
#
?
Aug 17, 2016 18:38
|
|
|
|
| # ? Apr 24, 2024 13:51 |
|
|
blk96gt posted:I remember reading some sci-fi book where there are a bunch of sentient ball robot sphere things that float around and I think they are like the rulers of humans now or something. Then some kid maybe befriends one and some stuff happens but I don't remember. I recall reading it a couple times and really liked it but have never been able to figure out what the title was. Journey to Terezor, I think. I remember it had an interesting setting where aliens abduct entire towns and take them into trumen show domes on another planet. The aliens are all dead and the Orbs rule in their place, and also they reprogram an orb to be on their side. Also there's a plant that will turn you into any alien depending on what dirt is on its roots... that part was dumb hemroid xfoli8r posted:An anthology that wasn't outright terrifying but still invoked a sense of unease, containing the following stories: I believe those were from the anthology books of Paul Jennings. He created a tv show called "Round the Twist" that I did not watch.
|
|
#
?
Aug 17, 2016 18:47
|
|
