Question

give me the summary of goosebumps and what did you like about the story and what did you not like

Answer 1

book manages to describe the bad endings in a way that makes you understand what’s happening (very much so, in some endings, as I just touched upon) in order to make you feel inferior for making the wrong choice, and make you empathize with your character, and it is very easy to imagine what is happening to him/her/you.  The choices in this book are all just choices, there are no alternative methods such as coin flips, days of the week, or even item checks, but the book still provides interactive entertainment for the reader, albeit in the simplest form, and sometimes that can be all that is needed for a Choose Your Own Adventure book, at the end of the day – it’s just nice to do things a little differently for at least one choice.

However, if I’m really honest the one thing this book lacks is the traditional Goosebumps humor.  Aside from one “Should you stay or should you go?” choice (I included the same joke in one of my Choose Your Own Adventures, and assumed it to be original...) the only example of humor I could find was when Marvin and Matilda were too busy arguing to notice your character being eaten, and even that wasn’t as comedic as it could have been.  For a Give Yourself Goosebumpsbook, giggling at ghosties is thin on the ground, but this is still a decent, albeit somewhat graphic book in the franchise.

♪When I started reading stories, on one thing I could depend.♪ 
♪That all books have beginnings, and they only have one end.♪
♪I’d read all of the pages, in sequence then be done.♪
♪Then R.L. Stine showed, that there was a way that books could be more fun.♪
♪So now, Reader, you’re going to choose the scare, but you must beware.♪
♪You’ll see that making choices, brings out the fun in having fear.♪
♪So... Give yourself some Goosebumps.♪ 
♪...Whatever rhymes with Goosebumps.♪
♪Feel your fear extending♪
♪Checking out every ending♪
♪Find the most deserving♪
♪Of the Most Disturbing; ♪
♪Like-endings-where-your-face-melts-off-or-endings-where-your-head explodes-or-even-endings-where-you-return-home-to-find-your-family-are-now-hideous-monsters-because-the-poltergeist-possessed-them-while-you-were...♪ 
(deep breath) 
♪Goooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooone.♪

 HAPPY HALLOWEEN

The Cover: A “monster house” with two windows being the eyes, and the door being the mouth.  This is about as relevant to the story as the “escape” part in the title.

Lazy Prologue: For some time now, Give Yourself Goosebumpshas copy ‘n’ pasted the same paragraph at the end of the prologue (the one that starts with“This scary adventure is all about you.”) In the past they’d be altered at least slightly to go with the story, but then suddenly they just stopped caring.  This is pretty bad for this book because the paragraph always contains the line; “If you choose well, you’ll make it home again.”  The problem?  You’re already home during this book!