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Please Don't Feed the Vampire!: A Give Yourself Goosebumps Book (Classic Goosebumps #32),Reissue edition
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You buy something called ""Vampire in a Can."" At first you think its just a goofy vampire costume with a cape, plastic fangs, and a tattoo of teeth marks. But then you find a packet in the bottom of the can labeled: DANGER-KEEP AWAY!
If you try to open the packet with your teeth, it rips in your mouth. Uh-oh. Looks like you've been transformed into a vampire-and you're really thirsty. If you decide not to open the packet, your dog sinks his teeth into it. Now your cute little poodle has become a ferocious vampire dog! Can you save your pooch before th bites off more than he can chew?
The choice is yours in this scary Goosebumps adventure that's packed with over 20 super spooky endings!
You buy something called ""Vampire in a Can."" At first you think its just a goofy vampire costume with a cape, plastic fangs, and a tattoo of teeth marks. But then you find a packet in the bottom of the can labeled: DANGER-KEEP AWAY!
If you try to open the packet with your teeth, it rips in your mouth. Uh-oh. Looks like you've been transformed into a vampire-and you're really thirsty. If you decide not to open the packet, your dog sinks his teeth into it. Now your cute little poodle has become a ferocious vampire dog! Can you save your pooch before th bites off more than he can chew?
The choice is yours in this scary Goosebumps adventure that's packed with over 20 super spooky endings!
144 pages, Paperback
First published March 1, 1997
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R.L. Stine
1,674 books18.5k followersRobert Lawrence Stine known as R. L. Stine and Jovial Bob Stine, is an American novelist and writer, well known for targeting younger audiences. Stine, who is often called the Stephen King of children's literature, is the author of dozens of popular horror fiction novellas, including the books in the Goosebumps, Rotten School, Mostly Ghostly, The Nightmare Room and Fear Street series.
R. L. Stine began his writing career when he was nine years old, and today he has achieved the position of the bestselling children's author in history. In the early 1990s, Stine was catapulted to fame when he wrote the unprecedented, bestselling Goosebumps® series, which sold more than 250 million copies and became a worldwide multimedia phenomenon. His other major series, Fear Street, has over 80 million copies sold.
Stine has received numerous awards of recognition, including several Nickelodeon Kids' Choice Awards and Disney Adventures Kids' Choice Awards, and he has been selected by kids as one of their favorite authors in the NEA's Read Across America program. He lives in New York, NY.
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R. L. Stine began his writing career when he was nine years old, and today he has achieved the position of the bestselling children's author in history. In the early 1990s, Stine was catapulted to fame when he wrote the unprecedented, bestselling Goosebumps® series, which sold more than 250 million copies and became a worldwide multimedia phenomenon. His other major series, Fear Street, has over 80 million copies sold.
Stine has received numerous awards of recognition, including several Nickelodeon Kids' Choice Awards and Disney Adventures Kids' Choice Awards, and he has been selected by kids as one of their favorite authors in the NEA's Read Across America program. He lives in New York, NY.
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October 25, 2023
Please Don't Feed The Vampire begins with you getting this thing called vampire In A can.It's basically a last-minute Halloween costume. Inside the costume you see this little packet that says "danger","keep away"or something along those lines.Your first choice is to either open it ,or don't open it.If you don't open it you and your friend keep throwing it back and forth to each other until one of you drop it. Your dog comes in and grabs it and eats the stuff out of it.Your dog quickly turns into a vampire and runs away.It's up to you to go get your dog and try to prevent him from biting the other dogs in the neighborhood,and other pets.You get a weird phone call from a guy named Mr.Wagner who claims he has your dog and that's honestly the gist of this storyline.It's very short but it's also very good to.I really enjoyed the whole phone call thing and a mystery surrounding Mr Wagner ,although when it's revealed to what he actually is ,it's a little underwhelming, it's still pretty good though.The other storyline is if you yourself rip up in the packet you become a vampire and you have to try to change yourself back, by going to either the place where you got it from or studying vampires, or just becoming a vampire and having fun,or simply just trying to sleep it off, which would probably be my first try.You also have to watch out for Count Yvonne and her group of vampires.This storyline is really good too it's very humorous.Well both story lines are kind of humorous.There's the scene where you bite your dad but he puts braces on you so you can't bite him properly.So you run away from him ,but he can't catch you because he's out of shape.You're young so you get away to get one of the best endings.There's a lot so funny little things like this. but don't be fooled.This book also has its Dark tone to it.There are endings where you get cremated,go to prison and having a dead body thrown on top of you. I really enjoyed Please Don't Feed The Vampire. I didn't expect to like it that much,but it had a lot of good stuff.The whole thing where you go to the place to find the Vampire In A Can remind me a lot of Monster Blood and The Haunted Mask and Vampire Breath,so pretty nostalgic to say the least.I also want to mention a scene that would actually be pretty scary.This is when you fall into a trap door with no windows in a room filled with vampires.It's pretty terrifying. Please Don't Feed The Vampire is one of the better Give Yourself Goosebumps books.I probably give it a four out of five stars.If I had any complaints,they are very minimal.I would have love to seen the turning into a bat get explored more.There is also an ending involving it being a certain kind of ending that I didn't love but it was fine.
January 2, 2025
I remember the first time I saw a Give Yourself Goosebumps book in a store. The combination of two of my favorite literary types—juvenile horror and gamebooks—was exciting, and ever after that I sought to collect the series. In Please Don't Feed the Vampire!, you have recently purchased a "Vampire in a Can" Halloween costume from a local shop called Scary Stuff, but you regret spending the money. You and your best friend Gabe find that the can holds only a few cheap plastic pieces that hardly make you look like a vampire at all. You'd like to march right back and demand a refund from the store owner, Mr. Reuterly, known as the "Eyeball Man" for the glass eye he's rumored to have. But then you notice a small packet tucked away in the can, marked DANGER—KEEP AWAY. Is it fake blood for the costume? Should you tear open the packet with your teeth, or heed the danger sign?
As the catalyst for everything that happens next, ignoring the packet isn't an actual option. If you choose to do so, your black poodle, Fifi, gets hold of the packet and tears it with her teeth. Instantly she turns aggressive, snarling at you, behavior totally out of character for your little dog. You know you're in deep trouble when she grows fangs. The "fake blood" turned her into a vampire, and now she's out on the streets, a lethal threat to people and animals. Depending what you and Gabe do next, you might face a herd of vampire canines bitten by Fifi. You could hide from them in a garage, but you have to find an antidote before the situation becomes unmanageable. Does Gabe have the perfect solution? Make different choices and you'll cross paths with Jeremy Weniger, a grouchy guy who lives on another street. When you go to his house to retrieve Fifi, he drives away suspiciously fast in his car. Did Weniger just kidnap your dog? You may discover he has taken Fifi to a vampire flick at the movie theater as a form of psychotherapy, or that he's gone to a pet store owned by his own mother. Can you stop Fifi from infecting other animals with vampirism? Don't get careless and let her bite you, or your idea to be a vampire for Halloween will become a permanent condition.
Maybe you opened the packet yourself at first, in which case Fifi only makes a cameo appearance in the story. Your teeth pierce the packet and the syrup floods your mouth, a sweet substance you crave more of as soon as it touches your tongue. The stuff looks like blood, Gabe points out, and if you're honest, tastes like it too. When you pass a mirror and see no reflection, the truth is obvious: the packet of blood made you a vampire. You desperately desire to sink your fangs into Gabe's neck, but do you have the willpower to hold back? The two of you brainstorm some strategies, but none are sure to work. You could hole up in your bedroom and hope the vampirism is temporary, but what if you die of starvation? Maybe you'll ask your parents for help—your dad is a dentist—but will he take you seriously or just try to fix your teeth so they're no longer sharp and pointy? The longer you spend outside your room, the more likely you are to bite someone, maybe even your dad. You could research vampirism rather than lock yourself in your room, but marathoning Dracula movies doesn't yield much insight. Who knew pop culture was so useless? Maybe you'll decide simply to indulge your new nature and team up with Gabe to shop for victims; you wouldn't mind preying on nasty old Mrs. Winesap. But perhaps your best bet is returning to the Scary Stuff store and confronting Mr. Reuterly, who points you in the direction of a product help center. You and Gabe have a bad feeling as you approach the rundown factory building on 999 Sanguine Road, but what other hope do you have? Go this route and you may turn into a bat forever. If you don't, then inside the factory a team of cordial associates do their best to trap you in their vampire lifestyle. Much of this book is spent running from them through the factory's shadowy hallways, trying to save yourself and Gabe. There are more bad endings than good, but triumph is possible if you're lucky.
Please Don't Feed the Vampire! offers, albeit weakly, a noteworthy theme: is it better to serve your own appetites even if they harm people, or commit to the arduous work of resisting? A gamebook focused on that question, if written well, could be superb, but Please Don't Feed the Vampire! fails to deliver. It is full of lazy narrative inconsistencies and ineffective comedy. Aside from a few scenes at the factory on 999 Sanguine Road that give the feeling of being trapped in a labyrinth with excitement waiting around every turn, there's not much to praise about this book. I suppose it's possible I'd rate it one and a half stars, and I'll pull it out occasionally for a reread around Halloween. You can't go too wrong with Goosebumps.
As the catalyst for everything that happens next, ignoring the packet isn't an actual option. If you choose to do so, your black poodle, Fifi, gets hold of the packet and tears it with her teeth. Instantly she turns aggressive, snarling at you, behavior totally out of character for your little dog. You know you're in deep trouble when she grows fangs. The "fake blood" turned her into a vampire, and now she's out on the streets, a lethal threat to people and animals. Depending what you and Gabe do next, you might face a herd of vampire canines bitten by Fifi. You could hide from them in a garage, but you have to find an antidote before the situation becomes unmanageable. Does Gabe have the perfect solution? Make different choices and you'll cross paths with Jeremy Weniger, a grouchy guy who lives on another street. When you go to his house to retrieve Fifi, he drives away suspiciously fast in his car. Did Weniger just kidnap your dog? You may discover he has taken Fifi to a vampire flick at the movie theater as a form of psychotherapy, or that he's gone to a pet store owned by his own mother. Can you stop Fifi from infecting other animals with vampirism? Don't get careless and let her bite you, or your idea to be a vampire for Halloween will become a permanent condition.
Maybe you opened the packet yourself at first, in which case Fifi only makes a cameo appearance in the story. Your teeth pierce the packet and the syrup floods your mouth, a sweet substance you crave more of as soon as it touches your tongue. The stuff looks like blood, Gabe points out, and if you're honest, tastes like it too. When you pass a mirror and see no reflection, the truth is obvious: the packet of blood made you a vampire. You desperately desire to sink your fangs into Gabe's neck, but do you have the willpower to hold back? The two of you brainstorm some strategies, but none are sure to work. You could hole up in your bedroom and hope the vampirism is temporary, but what if you die of starvation? Maybe you'll ask your parents for help—your dad is a dentist—but will he take you seriously or just try to fix your teeth so they're no longer sharp and pointy? The longer you spend outside your room, the more likely you are to bite someone, maybe even your dad. You could research vampirism rather than lock yourself in your room, but marathoning Dracula movies doesn't yield much insight. Who knew pop culture was so useless? Maybe you'll decide simply to indulge your new nature and team up with Gabe to shop for victims; you wouldn't mind preying on nasty old Mrs. Winesap. But perhaps your best bet is returning to the Scary Stuff store and confronting Mr. Reuterly, who points you in the direction of a product help center. You and Gabe have a bad feeling as you approach the rundown factory building on 999 Sanguine Road, but what other hope do you have? Go this route and you may turn into a bat forever. If you don't, then inside the factory a team of cordial associates do their best to trap you in their vampire lifestyle. Much of this book is spent running from them through the factory's shadowy hallways, trying to save yourself and Gabe. There are more bad endings than good, but triumph is possible if you're lucky.
Please Don't Feed the Vampire! offers, albeit weakly, a noteworthy theme: is it better to serve your own appetites even if they harm people, or commit to the arduous work of resisting? A gamebook focused on that question, if written well, could be superb, but Please Don't Feed the Vampire! fails to deliver. It is full of lazy narrative inconsistencies and ineffective comedy. Aside from a few scenes at the factory on 999 Sanguine Road that give the feeling of being trapped in a labyrinth with excitement waiting around every turn, there's not much to praise about this book. I suppose it's possible I'd rate it one and a half stars, and I'll pull it out occasionally for a reread around Halloween. You can't go too wrong with Goosebumps.
December 30, 2020
3.5 stars!
Well that was fun! I've read 7 of the endings today. Please Don't Feed the Vampire is a "choose your own adventure" book. This book can end in more than 20 different ways!
In some you might die or become a bat forever or become a vampire and find your true love and live forever or get killed by your vampiric dog. Everything depends on your choices!
Although a Goosebumps book, it's not at all scary. It's more of a goofy fun book. The writing is simple and easy. The book is perfect to kill time or when you don't want to read anything serious. I'd recommend taking this book on long journeys.
One can spend whole day(like me) figuring out the different endings!
Well that was fun! I've read 7 of the endings today. Please Don't Feed the Vampire is a "choose your own adventure" book. This book can end in more than 20 different ways!
In some you might die or become a bat forever or become a vampire and find your true love and live forever or get killed by your vampiric dog. Everything depends on your choices!
Although a Goosebumps book, it's not at all scary. It's more of a goofy fun book. The writing is simple and easy. The book is perfect to kill time or when you don't want to read anything serious. I'd recommend taking this book on long journeys.
One can spend whole day(like me) figuring out the different endings!
July 14, 2017
this is my first give-yourself-goosebumps book and i decided to go through it systematically (using a spreadsheet to track my progress)
it was fun but i kinda wish i read the first book instead
now for some shut-eye...
it was fun but i kinda wish i read the first book instead
now for some shut-eye...
April 25, 2022
These books are so silly, I love them! Takes me right back to when I was a kid and borrowed these at the library. 4 stars for the entertainment and nostalgia it brings me.
October 18, 2017
It was my first GOOSEBUMPS book and I finished in 2 days. I took it from my school library and I wanted to read this book because you can choose over 20 different endings! If you take a WRONG decision, you can be buried alive! But if you take the right decision, you can get a surprise birthday party!
December 6, 2009
Two stars, because some sections just seemed rushed. There were parts with half a page of text, which then made you flip through the book to an end section that had one paragraph! It's pretty obvious they were simply trying to fill space. Lots of choices, but not many great ones. A few amusing pages, however, so all is not lost.
December 17, 2015
★★★☆☆½
Read this aloud and with my 5th grade brother. The humor was so good and it reminded me and him of Teen Wolf's Scott and Stiles (or should I say Teen Wolf reminded me of the friendship in this book between the reader and Gabe). It was a great book overall and I really enjoyed the humor.
Read this aloud and with my 5th grade brother. The humor was so good and it reminded me and him of Teen Wolf's Scott and Stiles (or should I say Teen Wolf reminded me of the friendship in this book between the reader and Gabe). It was a great book overall and I really enjoyed the humor.
August 21, 2021
3.6
Vampire costume goes super wrong that costs your dog, teeth, and probably a neck or two. Despite not being a vampire lover, this had some unexpected twists and turns that made every page entertaining.
Vampire costume goes super wrong that costs your dog, teeth, and probably a neck or two. Despite not being a vampire lover, this had some unexpected twists and turns that made every page entertaining.
January 20, 2020
This was a fun and quick read. I found myself flipping back and forth until I had exhausted all the scenarios. My first time I became a vampire, embraced that life but ended up dying. My second read my dog, Fifi, became a vampire and made a legion of dog vampires which ultimately led to my demise. After this I went on to meet a coven of vampires and had to battle my way out while finding a cure for vampirism. I did a few more backtracks and re-read several different versions of those stories and greatly enjoyed. This book was pretty ridiculous and comedic like most Goosebumps books but doing the choose your own adventure method was so fun and took me right back to my childhood. I'm in awe of authors who can put these kinds of books together. Very neat! Perfect book for Nostalgiathon. I can't wait to share these with my own children someday.
April 19, 2025
These books have an undeniable power to transport me back in time, and my shelves and iPad are filled with them. But I digress. Please Don’t Feed the Vampire by R.L. Stine is nothing short of a treasure for young readers. While I didn’t explore every possible ending and stopped after the fourth because they began to feel a bit repetitive, I can’t help but appreciate the charm of this choose-your-own-adventure format. Though I can’t recall if I ever read any of the other books in the series, this one stands out as a pinnacle of nostalgia. It truly made my inner child smile.
June 9, 2020
It was not as fun as letting the spooky to come to you then you going to the spooky.
May 29, 2022
This book is awsome! I love it because you can choose the way that your mind wants to go!
October 3, 2025
Not much to say, but that was fun
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September 19, 2022nr
read this for a readathon but it made me remember how much i loved goosebumps as a kid lol
read this for a readathon but it made me remember how much i loved goosebumps as a kid lol
March 27, 2016
It took forever to go every ending, but it was an awesome adventure!! Haha.
I think it was one of my favorite books because I love a choose-your-own Goosebumps book.
It's surprising in one of the endings, but I won't say it. I love this book!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
I think it was one of my favorite books because I love a choose-your-own Goosebumps book.
It's surprising in one of the endings, but I won't say it. I love this book!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
April 28, 2019
I personally love that with this book the reader is able to choose how the story develops which really brings the reader into the story. With having it able to go in two separate ways at the beginning of the book with either the person becoming a vampire or the dog becoming a vampire there is different paths in which can make you read it over and over. With over ten different ways the story can end as well there is a lot of ways this book can keep you entertained and scared.
October 29, 2011
The story is kinda lame and some parts are rushed but this book is fun to play around because you could choose what will happen next in the story and you could end up either in a bad situation or a good one.
January 23, 2016
Read through two of the pathways as a family and really enjoyed reading it.
January 28, 2016
I didn't realize this was a Choose Your Own Adventure type of book. Not a fan of those, but I can see how kids might enjoy these types of books.
May 3, 2016
I never get bored from these goosebumps books !!
July 3, 2016
We loved reading all the different endings!
May 24, 2019
This book has so many alternate endings and loop holes to explore that your not really sure which one to pick.
This entire review has been hidden because of spoilers.
October 30, 2018
Please Don’t Feed the Vampire
Plot: It’s almost Halloween and you have a pretty lame costume (in a can) sold to you at a store called Scary Stuff from a guy with a glass eye (which in itself is scary). As you examine the can you find a packet of what looks like fake blood and a warning. Do we open it or not?
Everything inside me says no. Soooo. Let’s open it (I’m still doing opposites of what my brain says).
So we rip it open and it gets on our tongue and it’s GOOD but it looks like blood. All of a sudden your thirsty. You don’t want to think its blood but it taste the same as when you licked your hand after scraping it. The water you drink is nasty! You want something else. (the blood didn’t turn us we’re already vampires. Someone didn’t tell us is my guess). Looking in the mirror confirms it. We’re still SO hungry and Gabe’s neck looks tasty! Should we bite him or not!
GO FOR IT! He threatens me, runs to the kitchen and grabs a STEAK (lmao! Smart guy this one). We apologize, and he accepts, but it still doesn’t look like he trusts us.
Gabe says I have 3 choices 1 go back to the man at store 2 research to see if there’s a cure 3 stay a vampire, hide out, hope it wears off. 4 Enjoy it and embrace it. Hmm...
IRL I’m a book worm so I’d probably research it. Id probably also seek out the answer. So that leaves hope it wears off and embrace it. And seeing as hoping it wears off is something I’d do in IRL too let’s embrace this thing.
Later fun. Right now rest. I hang upside down on a excersize bar, arms folded, and go to sleep. The night wakes us and we go to claim our first victim. Miss Winsap-a mean old lady that wouldn’t give our frisbee back. We wander off to a cemetery and hear footsteps but we see a open grave.
We fight temptation and face a shadowy man. It’s Mr. Reuterly-the guy at the store. He leaps with you into the open costume in his arms. He tells us how he became a vampire (he was ill and dying and got bite by a vampire) and he’s willing to show us the tricks of the trade if we’ll bring him fresh victims and show him how to get into their houses (wow! Can we start with my ex’s? He can suck them lifeless). Do I hear more about his offer or run away? I’m actually interested in his offer (the vindictive side of me) so I decide to run away (remember I’m doing the opposite of what my brain says).
I turn him down and he sinks his teeth into me and drains me and I’m in the open coffin!
Rating:7 NOT BAD! I didn’t expect much from this one but it wasn’t as lame as some of the others. I wasn’t expecting “Glass Eye” from the costume store to be a vampire and be hustling fake merchandise. I also didn’t know vampires could kill each other by biting each other. That’s a new one. I knew they could die just that seems like a odd way to do it. But I think the technique I used worked of not following my gut and doing something completely different. It made for a better story ending.
Plot: It’s almost Halloween and you have a pretty lame costume (in a can) sold to you at a store called Scary Stuff from a guy with a glass eye (which in itself is scary). As you examine the can you find a packet of what looks like fake blood and a warning. Do we open it or not?
Everything inside me says no. Soooo. Let’s open it (I’m still doing opposites of what my brain says).
So we rip it open and it gets on our tongue and it’s GOOD but it looks like blood. All of a sudden your thirsty. You don’t want to think its blood but it taste the same as when you licked your hand after scraping it. The water you drink is nasty! You want something else. (the blood didn’t turn us we’re already vampires. Someone didn’t tell us is my guess). Looking in the mirror confirms it. We’re still SO hungry and Gabe’s neck looks tasty! Should we bite him or not!
GO FOR IT! He threatens me, runs to the kitchen and grabs a STEAK (lmao! Smart guy this one). We apologize, and he accepts, but it still doesn’t look like he trusts us.
Gabe says I have 3 choices 1 go back to the man at store 2 research to see if there’s a cure 3 stay a vampire, hide out, hope it wears off. 4 Enjoy it and embrace it. Hmm...
IRL I’m a book worm so I’d probably research it. Id probably also seek out the answer. So that leaves hope it wears off and embrace it. And seeing as hoping it wears off is something I’d do in IRL too let’s embrace this thing.
Later fun. Right now rest. I hang upside down on a excersize bar, arms folded, and go to sleep. The night wakes us and we go to claim our first victim. Miss Winsap-a mean old lady that wouldn’t give our frisbee back. We wander off to a cemetery and hear footsteps but we see a open grave.
We fight temptation and face a shadowy man. It’s Mr. Reuterly-the guy at the store. He leaps with you into the open costume in his arms. He tells us how he became a vampire (he was ill and dying and got bite by a vampire) and he’s willing to show us the tricks of the trade if we’ll bring him fresh victims and show him how to get into their houses (wow! Can we start with my ex’s? He can suck them lifeless). Do I hear more about his offer or run away? I’m actually interested in his offer (the vindictive side of me) so I decide to run away (remember I’m doing the opposite of what my brain says).
I turn him down and he sinks his teeth into me and drains me and I’m in the open coffin!
Rating:7 NOT BAD! I didn’t expect much from this one but it wasn’t as lame as some of the others. I wasn’t expecting “Glass Eye” from the costume store to be a vampire and be hustling fake merchandise. I also didn’t know vampires could kill each other by biting each other. That’s a new one. I knew they could die just that seems like a odd way to do it. But I think the technique I used worked of not following my gut and doing something completely different. It made for a better story ending.
June 11, 2024
As I've mentioned before, both of the Goosebumps boxed sets that I got a Ollie's had books that were published as part of the Goosebumps 2000 series in US, but lumped into the main series in the UK, because the sets were of the British editions. (The book in the 1st set was called Goosebumps: The Haunted Car, and the book in the 2nd set was called Goosebumps: Attack of the Graveyard Ghouls.) The 2nd set also featured this book: Goosebumps: Don't Feed the Vampire. In America, it's part of the Give Yourself Goosebumps series. Again, though, in the UK, all Goosebumps books are published under the main series banner.
The Give Yourself Goosebumps books are Goosebumps books written in the style of Choose Your Own Adventure books. That means that use the 2nd-person POV, and each page offers different choices. I'm not a particularly big fan of these types of books, because I've never really understood how to read them. So, I just read Goosebumps: Don't Feed the Vampire straight all the way through from start to finish. And that's part of the reason I rated it 3 stars, making it only the 2nd book I've given that rating to so far in 2024. (The 1st was Indiana Jones and the Sky Pirates, by Martin Caidin.)
The Give Yourself Goosebumps books are Goosebumps books written in the style of Choose Your Own Adventure books. That means that use the 2nd-person POV, and each page offers different choices. I'm not a particularly big fan of these types of books, because I've never really understood how to read them. So, I just read Goosebumps: Don't Feed the Vampire straight all the way through from start to finish. And that's part of the reason I rated it 3 stars, making it only the 2nd book I've given that rating to so far in 2024. (The 1st was Indiana Jones and the Sky Pirates, by Martin Caidin.)
September 4, 2020
I got this Goosebumps book lumped in with 9 other Goosebumps books in a $19.99 set, meaning the physical copy cost about $1.99. I would say I got at least $1.99 worth of fun out of it.
I read most of these books as a kid and I love them. This one is probably one of the weaker Give Yourself Goosebumps ones, but it's still fun enough to read. Goofy as all get out, but that's what you're paying for basically.
Some of the endings are so downright silly, it's impossible not to laugh. Others sort of just fizzle out. That's sort of the rub of a Choose Your Own Adventure book. 1-2 Good adventures, a smattering of mediocre adventures, and some downright awful ones.
If you have a kid who is just starting on chapter books, I think this would be great to read with them. If not you, like me, might enjoy it just for the nostalgia value.
I read most of these books as a kid and I love them. This one is probably one of the weaker Give Yourself Goosebumps ones, but it's still fun enough to read. Goofy as all get out, but that's what you're paying for basically.
Some of the endings are so downright silly, it's impossible not to laugh. Others sort of just fizzle out. That's sort of the rub of a Choose Your Own Adventure book. 1-2 Good adventures, a smattering of mediocre adventures, and some downright awful ones.
If you have a kid who is just starting on chapter books, I think this would be great to read with them. If not you, like me, might enjoy it just for the nostalgia value.
June 6, 2024
Give Yourself Goosebumps was a series that started off really strongly but quickly turned to dirt real quick. It's only understandable what with being forced to write so many books for so long in such a short period of time. Even worse, choose your own adventure books are much harder than his normal books to write. Schoolastic took advantage of him and worked him into the ground and, this is unfortunately one of the side effects of that. It's uninspired, uninteresting with nothing feeling necessarily earned. Things just sort of happen. I can't imagine why this is one of the ones they reprinted when the first two are really the only good ones. This is probably the worst piece by RL stein I've read to date.
October 30, 2024
It has been a long time since I read a Goosebumps book. Were they always this light? I remember cheesy but I also remember a bit of creep factor I thought. Well, this is missing that for the most part. The kids just found it plain fun, or even silly. While reading with the kids, almost all wanted to drink the packet for the first choice. But personally, I found the story where the dog gets it to be better. Although that version also has the cheesiest endings it also had the most gruesome one. Also, those were less predictable for what would happen. I didn't like how a couple of the choices didn't make a difference and would have the same result then other factors intervene, making the option pointless.
July 29, 2020
Wrong numbers. :(
We bought the Scholastic 2016 edition because we like to read choose-your-own-adventure type books for nostalgia and we really liked the Wicked Wax Museum. We love the style and the humour of the author.
However, this one was a disappointment as none of the numberings seems to be right and coherent. At first, we tried to find the correct page numbers around the given numbers. This strategy worked fine till 1-2-36-53-42. Then we arrived on page 73 and gave up immediately, as that page has absolutely no footnotes. No instructions. No "The End" script. Nothing.
Just crappy editorial work that kills all the fun. It was a complete waste of time and money.
We bought the Scholastic 2016 edition because we like to read choose-your-own-adventure type books for nostalgia and we really liked the Wicked Wax Museum. We love the style and the humour of the author.
However, this one was a disappointment as none of the numberings seems to be right and coherent. At first, we tried to find the correct page numbers around the given numbers. This strategy worked fine till 1-2-36-53-42. Then we arrived on page 73 and gave up immediately, as that page has absolutely no footnotes. No instructions. No "The End" script. Nothing.
Just crappy editorial work that kills all the fun. It was a complete waste of time and money.
March 5, 2021
This Halloween got stuck with a cheesy vampire costume, that comes stuffed inside a can.And as I open the costume a packet of red liquid in it falls out,That will turn anyone who drinks it into an actual vampire. Will I swallow it or will not? I deside not to. Just then my adorable poodle Fifi runs inside and snatches the packet with her mouth and slumps the liquid inside! I start to panic as she slowly grows fangs! What will I do now . How will I be able to get Fifi back? Is this the end of he?!
HOPE U ENJOYED MY REVIEW ♡
-Queen Yxl
HOPE U ENJOYED MY REVIEW ♡
-Queen Yxl
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