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Fear Street — Where Your Worst Nightmares Live...
It's Cindy's birthday, and her friends are throwing her a surprise party on Fire Island. It's a private party — no parents, no cops...in fact, no one around for miles.
Except there's a madman loose on the island. A murderer who quietly crashes the party.
And he wants to dance with the birthday girl...
However believable his plots seem to his readers, Stine insists he has never lived one of his stories. "I've never turned into a bee -- I've never been chased by a mummy or met a ghost. But many of the ideas in my books are suggested by real life. For example, one Halloween my son, Matt, put a mask on and then had trouble pulling it off. That gave me the idea for The Haunted Mask."
Although he never experienced terror first hand, he did enjoy reading about it. "When I was a kid, there were these great comic books called Tales From The Crypt and The Vault of Horror. They were gruesome. I discovered them in the barbershop and thought they were fabulous. I used to get a haircut every Saturday so I wouldn't miss any of these comic books. I had no hair at all when I was a kid!"
His ideas came from two sources: his memory and his imagination. "When I write, I try to think back to what I was afraid of or what was scary to me, and try to put those feelings into books." He also keeps a tribal mask and a skeleton hanging in his writing studio to provide eerie surroundings. Although he handles the writing by himself, Stine says he gets "lots of help from my editors, my readers, and my friends."
Kids reading Goosebumps may be looking for a scare, but the laughs they get are no accident. Before he was R. L., he was Jovial Bob, author of such works as 101 Silly Monster Jokes, and Bozos on Patrol and editor of Bananas magazine. His ability to know what kids will laugh at , as well as what will frighten them, makes the Goosebumps series all the more enjoyable for his readers.
Stine started writing when he was 9 years old! He would write stories and jokes on an old typewriter and hand them out at school. "The teacher would grab them and take them away," Stine says, "but I kept doing it." He wrote for his high school newspaper in Columbus Ohio. After graduating from Ohio State University, he moved to New York City, where he worked on a variety of writing jobs.
Although his books are fun and exciting, writing them is serious stuff. He treats writing "...like a job." To unwind after work he enjoys playing the pinball machine conveniently located in his own apartment.
For aspiring authors, Stine feels reading is as important as writing. He offers this advice: "If you want to be a writer, don't worry so much about writing. Read as much as you can. Read as many different writers as you can. Soak up the styles. You can learn all kinds of ways to say things." As a boy he read Norse legends, Greek myths, Edgar Allan Poe and baseball stories. "And Mad Magazine changed my life." Author biography courtesy of Scholastic, Inc.
"My first job in New York was making up fake interviews with movie and TV stars for a group of six movie magazines. I never spoke to the stars I wrote about. I wrote three-to-four "interviews" a day, all out of my imagination."
"'I've written over 300 books but I never learned to type. I use only one finger, the pointer on my left hand -- that's all. Three hundred books on one finger! The finger is very ugly now -- completely bent and curled and callused. When I show it to audiences, they can't believe it! This is my sacrifice for my art!"
"Sometimes kids show up at my country house and ask if my son Matt can come out and play. That's because they saw him mentioned in the back of my books. But they're very disappointed when he comes to the door -- because Matt is in his mid-twenties now! They were reading very old books! Matt is a musician, composer, and sound designer. You can hear his music at my web site, www.rlstine.com."
"I hope my readers get a chance to see my 4-D movie, R. L. Stine's Haunted Lighthouse. The movie stars Christopher Lloyd, Michael McKean, Lea Thompson, Weird Al, and others. You can find it playing at four parks: SeaWorld San Antonio, SeaWorld San Diego, Busch Gardens Tampa, and Busch Gardens Williamsburg, Virginia. Watch out -- you might get very wet!"
Anonymous
Posted February 26, 2009
Book title and author: All Night Party R.L. Stine
Title of review: Jessica's Book review of the All-night Party
Number of stars (1 to 5): 5
Introduction it starts out with a group of friends throwing her a birthday party on fear Street Island. But what they don't know is that there is a so called killer on the lose that escaped from the jail on fear street island. But the group of friends doesn't know that there is a killer on the lose. So they play a trick on Cindy and kid-nap her and put her in a car and brought her to the cabin, but before they get to the cabin they half to get on a boat to get their. Mean while it's raining and they are soaked. Finally they get to the cabin close to the woods.
Description and summary of main points The All-night party was a vey good book. It explained who the real killer on fear Street Island. It was and it is very descriptive. It's a very good book if you like mystery and suspense. It's mainly about Cindy's murder on fear Street Island. But what they all don't know is that there friend is the killer. In the book you will read it is really good and it is really descriptive and tells you all the main details of the story. So if you like mystery and suspense you will like this book.
Evaluation In the book its starts out with friends throwing Cindy a birthday party on fear Street Island. But when Cindy's ex- boyfriend was their and they were getting into a fight outside of the cabin and Jackson overheard the fight and maybe a little more than a hour after the fight Cindy ends up dead in the kitchen of the cabin. So they start to look for clues about who would have wanted to kill Cindy. They start finding clues to say that it was one of their friends because Cindy wouldn't date him so if he couldn't have Cindy no one could. So that is why Cindy ended up dead in the kitchen of the cabin they rented for the party.
Conclusion is that the person and friend that killed Cindy was caught by the police and he went to jail for what he did to Cindy on her birthday party on Fear Street Island. Because when they found out that their friend was the killer and that there was never really a killer on Fear Street Island. They called the police and he went to jail.
4 out of 5 people found this review helpful.
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Posted October 4, 2007
I read All Night Party in two days twenty pages one night and one hundred forty pages the other. THis book is a gripping read. I cannot beleive the real murderer. WHy would the (person) do something like that. Terrifying and gripping, like a never ending book ending book. I wish the book would be a little thicker.
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Posted December 30, 2012
I hate when people do, write, or act stupid. Go get a life.
xoxo Mz. Mone
1 out of 2 people found this review helpful.
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Posted September 21, 2012
It was a really good book,
I loved it for the recerd in Grechen
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Posted June 5, 2013
I finished reading it tonight.....this one is my least favorite book out of the series.......it was alright
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Posted March 11, 2013
Shimmer she called " you ok? "
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Posted December 30, 2012
Try to get their prey
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Posted October 29, 2012
Interesting!
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Posted October 5, 2012
Great book as always!
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Posted August 5, 2012
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Posted August 17, 2011
This is a great book! i thought it was a great book becuase it was suspencful and mind blowing! this is also a great book because it made me laugh a little bit and it makes you thinkk!!! this is an awesome book, so you should definetly read it!(:
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Posted August 17, 2011
I thought it was the best book ever! Actualy it was my first R.L Stine book i ever read. I read it in 5th grade i loved, it so much that i read it in 4 days and thats not normal at least for me. But now my fav. series are R.L Stine.
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Posted November 28, 2008
This book is really good...My cousin let me have all of her R.L. Stine books because she now likes vampires. She won't read anything else. She just saw Twilight but nevermind that. This book was such a thrill. Don't waist your money on goosebumps they're so childish,I mean I am a child but i've been told a lot that I am mature for my age goosebumps books are just so immature. Just dont forget to always buy fear street books by R.L. Stine.
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Was this review helpful? Yes NoThank you for your feedback. Report this reviewThank you, this review has been flagged.I really liked this book. It kept me guessing till the end which wasn¿t too far away. I was a really good book for just reading in like an hour. At some parts I was getting scared. This is the nest step up from Goosebumps which I do not recommend unless all you want to do is make fun of them. You should read this book I¿m not really into R.L. Stine but I liked this one<BR/><BR/>killing britney is good if you r over 14 and really want something scary
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Posted November 27, 2007
Seriously, it is a great book. I found it very chilling and had a great story line. I also found it very short though. But other than that, it was great.
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Posted April 23, 2007
I was having a really hard time figuring out who was the murderer, but when you find out, it makes the book all the more interesting! You should definatelly read this book if you get the chance!
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Posted February 4, 2007
This was an excellent book that kept you guessing to the end. At first you think you have it all figured out and then it turns on you! i deffinately recomend it!
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Posted September 18, 2006
Cindy is in a reall suprise for her b-day party.A madman is loose and wants alone time with the b-day girl!!!!!!!!!!
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Posted November 5, 2006
this book is about a girl named Gretchen. When Gretchen finds out there's a madman on the loose, she's terrified! As more accidents start happening Gretchen gets more and more scared. Is she next?
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Posted August 22, 2004
This is an awosem book that I enjoyed very well it had me guessing and wondering and I mean it's a great book. You gots to read trust me it's a great book.
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Overview
Fear Street — Where Your Worst Nightmares Live...
It's Cindy's birthday, and her friends are throwing her a surprise party on Fire Island. It's a private party — no parents, no cops...in fact, no one around for miles.
Except there's a madman loose on the island. A murderer who quietly crashes the party.
And he wants to dance with the birthday girl...