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the third special "power play" edition, readers must choose the right power objects to bring to the creepiest show on Earth or risk becoming a real sideshow freak! Trapped in the Circus of Fear by R.
L. Stine is a pretty fun chooseyourownadventure book, and one that I am sure will make some readers angry, This is because the book begins where you and a buddy are about to go away to a circus, and you need to bring three items with you.
If you choose incorrectly, when you hit key points in the book, then you will have a bad ending, Now, there are at least a few right answers as to what objects you need depending on how you move through the book, But still, there are some objects more crucial than others,
I've played through the book a few times and not gotten to the end, But I'm pretty sure I know now what objects I would need to make it to the end, So I'll choose those next time I read through it, And I understand why all of this is frustrating to some readers: choosing the correct objects means, if you chose incorrectly, having to go back and start from scratch, if you're playing fair.
But I think it allows for multiple readings of the book, which is not a bad idea,
A book like this is perfect to read on a long trip when you've got nothing else going on, and even more fun to read with a friend or significant other.
My advice is to load up your Kindle with these kinds of books and then embark on your road trip, That is, if you like this sort of thing, This has to be one of my favorite books when I was a kid! It packs a hell lot of scary scenarios you'd never expect children to read.
Or even understand. But I did, thanks to R, L. Stine's captivating writing and imagination,
I also made a habit of listing down page numbers before turning, in case I get a dead end, Ah, memories! Meh, it is ok, I'm not the biggest fan of circus stories, I read this because of thePopsugar Reading Challenge, It was an easily obtainable ebook from my local library, I did kind of like the chooseyourownadventure aspect and I remember enjoying some of the older Goosebumps stories as a child, This one is just average, It makes me want to continue making different choices while watching Bandersnatch more than anything, Shares similarities to the first Give Yourself Goosebumps, Escape from the Carnival of Horrors, except this one isn't as inventive and doesn't include fun references to other Goosebumps stories.
Your knowledge of the lore isn't going to help you here, but what will is dumb luck, Despite the "Special Edition" conceit which allows you to pick three items from a list in the intro, a chance of successfully completing this book using your wits is not on offer.
You have no inkling on your first readthrough of which of these silly items might help you peanuts or your lucky cap, which is the choice of the cunning adventurer Neither should've gone with chocolate.
and "winning" the book becomes a matter of simple trialanderror, as it is in so many gamebooks that don't play "fair" by giving you clues and by rewarding logical decisions.
Unfortunately there's not much creativity to redeem this barebones story, either, The solution to defeat the Ringmistress is as arbitrary and, frankly, weird as you've come to expect from this spinoff series, The other villains are mostly uninspired, The main takeaways are perhaps these two nuggets of wisdom carefully and lovingly placed at the calamitous ends of two plot branches: always carry a bar of chocolate with you, and never trust someone who drools.
The chocolate bit I agree with, but why Stine included that shot at me I will never know,
This one is very skippable and probably more like two and a half, This book is dark, and fun, And one of the best Give Yourself Goosebumps Ive ever read! Trapped In The Circus Of Fear
Plot: The main plot is you're trapped in a circus and the lady over the circus Mistress Barbarous and her family the other circus performers are all evil.
They also all have magic powers, Your goal is to make it out before they all use their magic on you and turn you into sideshow attractions and add you to their collection.
MY STORY: TRY
Ducked in time to avoid getting sliced and diced by a knife thrower
Got saved from a clown about to chock me out by another miniature clown Mr.
Peppers
Because I had chocolate You might wanna include chocolate bars as one of your choices
escaped the headmistress by running in the direction of the sideshow and she trips and knocks herself out.
Lizard Boy tells you the motive of Mistress Barbarous to turn all the normal kids into freaks and helps you hide,
Got found and almost eaten by Mr, Bostini the lion tamper
I went with the talcum powder to the face which made him sneeze
And he bites my head off
Mrs.
Barbarous sticks my ears on the side of my neck which he burps up
LOVELY!
MY THOUGHTS: I have a few of these on my shelf.
Imagine my delight to find them all, I was excited up until the point where he snapped my head off, I was doing so good like YES! I can do this! I can get my friend and get the hell out of here, Oh well maybe next try, The great thing about these books is you can try until you get the ending right, Very action packed. Every page turn was a question mark, The only bad thing is because I downloaded this in epub format even tho the page choice you pick if you click on it it immediately takes you to the page but sometimes the page was off because the pages are numbered funny in the format I have.
RATING:i was always a big fan of Goosebumps and other type of child/teen thriller and horror book series growing up, RL Stine was SK before I knew who SK was, Choosing your own adventure was even more exhilarating, Love that I found some online as an adult, I had a lot of fun navigating through this circus of horrors, Yes, I "died" numerous times but its always fun reading the grisly and
creative endings, I made it out eventually, Very Fun به حدی بترس که همه موهای بدنت سیخ شوند دلت میخواهد با تاب سیرکی پرواز کنی دلت میخواهد یکی از نمایشهای بخش جنبی سیرک را اجرا کنی نمایشی عجیب و غریب و غیر عادی و وحشتناک دلت می خواهد خودت را مثل دلقک گریم کنی گریمی که هیچ وقت پاک نمیشود هر ماجرایی که انتخاب میکنی بهتر است ابزار قدرت درست و مناسبی با خودت برداری اگر دلت میخواهد از این سیرک پلید و شیطانی جان سالم به در ببری بهتر است این کار را بکنی. This is the first that I read in the newer series of Give Yourself Goosebumps Power Play Special Editions, gamebooks written with some extra features that are somewhat closer in scope to the Lone Wolf odyssey penned by Joe Dever.
In Trapped in the Circus of Fear, you are allowed to pick three objects from a list objects that you think might help you at some point in your adventure.
This is an interesting new twist for R, L. Stine as he continually tried to keep things fresh in his gamebook writing,
Some really odd things happen in this book, but there are a lot of good stories, I, for one, enjoy reading it, Solamente quiero decir que por momentos necesité salir corriendo para algún lado,
Nunca fui al circo, nunca me cayeron muy bien los payasos, y las historias alla Elige tu Propia Aventura siempre me desesperaron, Como me pasó con el Silent Hill: The Room cuando lo jugué el año pasado, los finales tristes me ponen de pelos, i once owned this book, finish reading it a long time ago when i was a kid, but now i cant remember where i kept it, haha Robert Lawrence Stine known as R, L. Stine and sitelink Jovial Bob Stine, is an American novelist and writer, well known for targeting younger audiences, Stine, who is often called the Stephen King of childrens 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 childrens author in history, In the earlys, Stine was catapulted to fame when he wrote the unprecedented, bestselling Goosebumps series, which sold thanmillion copies and became a worldwide multimedia phenomenon.
His other Robert Lawrence Stine known as R, L. Stine and sitelink 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 earlys, Stine was catapulted to fame when he wrote the unprecedented, bestselling Goosebumps series, which sold thanmillion copies and became a worldwide multimedia phenomenon.
His other major series, Fear Street, has overmillion 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, sitelink sitelink.