So youtube randomly recommended me this guy showing off his Goosebumps collection. Now i read some of the books and watched the show. Certainly no superfan but i have an appreciation for it from my youth but this lead me down a rabbit hole afterwards.First off all the things i missed like the knockoffs like Shivers, Bonechillers and the like but also the Fear Street and Point Horror imprints from the late 80's and early 90's. When i saw the cover for the uk edition of "Homecoming Queen" i was hit with a wave of memories i long forgot as this was the very first book i bought at my first scholastic school book faire back in 1997. That copy was long since lost and i was too young to really get into it but i picked up a copy at a second hand book store and gave it a read. It was a simple, formulaic 90's thriller akin to made for tv and more edgy hallmark stuff today but it was refreshing to read a paperback in two sittings over a couple of hours that wasn't trying to be a 600 page "event book" hoping to make it off goodread reviews in hopes of a movie rights deal.I've since gone on to pick up any of these books i can when i see them cheap, which honestly bar a few golden goose books for collectors seems to be an easy ask. I bought the entire Shivers collection for £26 for example and they are pretty interesting to reread as an adult, not just as a nostalgic time capsule, but to see what techniques outside Stines infamous chapter ending cliffhangers that instantly turn out to be nothingburgers and how they got young people into reading back in the day.Its given me a real appreciation for the sub genre in general. Do you have any from your childhood you still think is worth a look?
>reddit manchild sloppification of literature is now hitting /lit/Don't you have a bowl of weed to smoke for breakfast while you watch cartoons? How did you find your way to /lit/?
>>25299208Did you just construct a person in your head, choose to get mad at that person and then make your entirely internal dialogue with yourself the worlds problem?Your mental health is not your fault, but it is your responsibility. I hope you get the help you need. I believe in you, you can overcome this.
Good thread OP aside from the giant blogpost.I think there's room now for bringing Choose-Your-Adventure books back into the limelight. There's nothing else really like them.>>25299208>Goosebumps and Goosebumps-equivalent books are now reddit slopYou people are so lame. As if the critically lauded 20th century bildungsroman you're reading, with its intelligent-but-sad protagonist and its mysterious muse love interest, is any less slop.
>>25299253Aren't they trying to bring back choose your own adventure books as a thing now? i have a few friends who teach early grade kids and they seem to suggest the book companies are trying stuff like that to "gamify reading" as the modern book faires are all shit like taylor swift sticker albums and 3rd party ai written minecraft build guides.
>>25299258>the modern book faires are all shit like taylor swift sticker albums and 3rd party ai written minecraft build guidesThe kids aren't going to make it are they?
>>25299195>fear street>point horror>goosebumps>everything else.
I hated anything scary as a kid, hence I never read Goosebumps or watched the show. Oh, how people change when they grow up. I'm kind of grateful though, since perhaps if I had been big into Goosebumps I wouldn't be such a big weird horror/fiction fan as an adult.
