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Aimee said...

Hahaha, that whole shoving of "Boo, dude!" down our throats as the 'official' Goosebumps catchphrase pissed me off as a kid. I thought it was an attempt to dumb down the series into something patronizing and non-scary. Ohhhh, if I only knew...

A+ review, as usual. And anything with Ghostbusters[1] and Home Alone[2] references is a total win. Although some sort of quip about how 'Marv and Harry decide to reconcile their differences through their mutual love of burglarizing Chicago suburbs' would've made my night even more.

Yeah, I need sleep.

MARCH 03, 2008 9:12 PM

Christopher[Note 1] said...

Good book, it was one of my favorites.

Also, nothing is scarier than Ernest Scared Stupid.[3] Nothing.

MARCH 03, 2008 9:13 PM

troy steele said...

I completely forgot Pesci's character was named Harry in that movie, I totally blew it. But as always, if I miss something, my readers are there for the pick-up.

And Christopher, I know Oscar Wilde was a fan of the movie. After all, he understood the Importance of Seeing Ernest.[4]

MARCH 03, 2008 9:44 PM

Anonymous said...

yup...Beware has Harold from the third book and The Girl Who Stood on a Grave from the first. It also has the story of the golem, retold by Stine himself.

what pisses me off most is that i cant read a schwartz story without a stephen gammell picture...and from what i saw, the pics for the stories in Beware are generic and stupid.[5]

MARCH 07, 2008 8:24 AM

troy steele said...

I guess "retold" and "ruined" are synonyms now?

MARCH 7, 2008 12:06 PM

Q & T[Note 2] said...

We want us some Slappy, Troy.

MARCH 10, 2008 8:11 PM

troy steele said...

Q+T, the night is still young, and of the living dummy

MARCH 10, 2008 8:49 PM

Notes[edit | edit source]

  1. This name would eventually be redacted by the author, but we've restored it for the sake of context.
  2. This name, too, was removed at some point.

References[edit | edit source]

  1. The 1984 film.
  2. The 1990 film.
  3. The 1991 film.
  4. Riffing on famed playwright Oscar Wilde and his play The Importance of Being Earnest.
  5. Beware! was an anthology compiled by R.L. Stine. "Harold" and "The Girl Who Stood on a Grave" are horror stories that notably appeared in Alvin Schwartz's Scary Stories to Tell in the Dark series. Originally, they were illustrated by Stephen Gammell ⁠— but not in the Beware! versions.