Say Cheese and Die! (Classic Goosebumps #8) (8)

Say Cheese and Die by R.L. Stine is the 4th book in the original goosebumps series. It's a story about the worst invention ever, a camera that seems to predict or make bad things happen, you be the judge. This one oozes 90's more than Welcome to the Dead House, Stay out of the Basement, and Monster Blood, the first 3 Goosebumps books in the series. Oh the boredom before cell phones, it talks about how bored the four best friends are with nothing to do. It talks VHS videos, home phones, and cool new station wagon (I think station wagons are still pretty cool). This book doesn't bring as much real life scenario as others it does kind of deal with homelessness, and everybody has a story, but it's pretty vague. The story flows pretty well the ending is a little out there not too big of a twist. This like Monster Blood is the second book where Stine opens it up too a sequel at the finally.The Plot: Greg, Shari, Bird, and Michael are four best friends that are super bored, they keep trying to come up with ideas, but nothing takes they decide to go explore an abandoned mansion. The mansion is not as abandoned as first thought, as a man they nicknamed Spidey has been living there. Greg ends up finding a secret compartment with an old camera there that is a self processing camera that allows the photo to develop in minutes after you take the photo. Greg being a photo junkie takes the camera out and takes a photo of Michael against the staircase banister. Moments after taking the photo the banister breaks and Michael falls with it. when greg looks at the photo it shows Michael falling, but he knows he took it before hand, Spidey comes back and they quickly leave Greg in his fear takes the camera with him as his friends flee. Greg takes more photos of his dad's new car, but the photo shows it wrecked. Grep is sure the camera is haunted and always shows bad things, but when Shari insist he takes a photo of her, the photo looks regular except Shari is not in it, what can that mean. Greg and his friend must find the secrets of the camera before it is too late.What I Liked: The story is really fun and is for the most part driven, the story really makes the reader cringe with every photo not knowing the exact details of the consequences, except knowing there will be some. The friendship of the group feels really real if it wasn't for the 90's troupes you would think it was modern day. The camera is just a great device, and used well through out the story. The original cover is amazing and one of my favorites of all the goosebumps series. I like how it leads you to a possible sequel at the end.What I Disliked: The twist was lackluster a little bit when we find out more about the origin of the camera, there's a lot lacking in that story if it was always intended for evil, or if it was cursed after the fact.Recommendations: I totally recommend this one, it's interesting and the story is great, if the twist was nailed this one would have taken number one spot away from Stay out of the Basement. If you are a fan of the TV series on Fox this was the episode that featured a young Ryan Gosling as Greg. If you want a good one for your kids that's not as scary as the other's with a good story then this is the one to get. the price is just 3.99 on Amazon kindle and you can't beat that. I rated Say Cheese and Die 4 out of 5 stars. My rating so far from best to worst of the Goosebumps series is Stay out of the Basement, Say Cheese and Die, Welcome to Dead House, and Monster Blood.

I've read many books by RL Stine, pay attention to his career, took his Masterclass, and more. If you are reading this, you know he's a terrific ideas writer more than anything. He can come up with so many situations, so many twists and turns, it's impressive. This book, by that standard, is one of his better books, but not in his top tier. It's a good set-up (taken a little from an old Twilight Zone episode, by Stine's admission), and paints a good picture of what's going on, ratcheting up the tension as accidents start to happen, and the characters get more on edge. But I didn't like the way it played out so much in the second half of the book. Stine's descriptions are also better in some of his later writing. A worthy read though, very entertaining and easy to read.

This was a fun book, and very captivating for my 8 year old son. It has been hard to get him interested in reading, but these Goosebumps books really keep him interested to the point of trying to read them himself after I finish reading him our 2 chapters a night. Every chapter ends in a cliff hanger so he is always excited for the next night to see what happens. Love these books.

Well for me anyway. I purchased a couple of Goosebump books because I am taking a Masterclass with R.L. Stine. I have to say, even at my age, I can't put the book down. It's just like he teaches in his class.

Bought as a gift for my 12 year old niece and she loved it

I think you could have done a little bit better on it I'm really enjoying your books there trending out very good you should make a book based on five nights at Freddy's now that would be scary if you don't know what five nights at Freddy's is look it up beware your in for a scare

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I bought these for my seven-year-old grandson who loves to read. I Purchased the first five in the series and he’s hooked. Looks like I’ll be buying the rest!

After watching the movie twice and really enjoying it I decided that I wanted to read one of the books and so I did! Next day I got it and the artwork on the cover looked beautiful. So far so good! So then I started reading it and it was really good! In the end I manged to ginish it in 24 hours! That's how brilliant it was. It was just as I wanted it to be! Scary, exciting! It made me want to keep reading on and on and last night I read for about and hour and a half and finished it! I really reccomend this book! Especially if you like the goosebumps film or books. Or even if you've never read or watched goosebumps then read it!

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The amount of detail put into these books are amazing! I've really been into these books thanks to the great storylines and horror aspect - not to mention the great titles. I look forward to reading another book

I have just finished reading this book, I haven't read goosebumps since I was about ten. But having recently watched the goosebumps film I decided to give them another go.I really enjoyed this book.

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