Todd Barstow loves worms. He loves digging them up on the baseball diamond behind the school after it rains, loves collecting them in an aquarium in his basement, and loves tormenting his sister Regina and her best friend Beth with them. Luckily his best friend Danny always gives him a hand in collecting worms, even though he does not quite share his friend’s enthusiasm. Todd is known as that child who always wears the Raiders cap and loves worms.Todd's planning on entering a worm house in the Science Fair. The Worm House is a wood house with worms inside. Todd learns that Patrick, a rich blonde good-looking child, is also entering a worm-related project in the Science Fair. Todd becomes obsessed with finding out what his project is, to ensure that his will be better than Patrick's. Regina tells Todd Patrick's address and Todd and Danny set off late at night to first meet with Patrick to try and get an answer from him. Later when they see his mansion is abandoned, they decide to break in and see his project. Then an evil spirit dog chases them and they see a corpse inside the house and run away.Todd overhears his sister the next day talking to Beth on the telephone about what a great trick she played, sending the two boys to the abandoned mansion where some children threw a Halloween party a few months ago. Todd gets revenge on her by putting worms in the beak of the paper mache bird she has created for the Science Fair, which she has named Christopher Robin. Regina accidentally opens the bird's beak, when the Science Fair judges walk by and they land on the head of the judges.Patrick sets his project down next to Todd's modest worm house and reveals that he has built a massive worm skyscraper, complete with working elevators. The judges spend a considerable amount of time on Patrick's project, mostly ignoring Todd's. Todd is furious, especially since he is the worm expert. He had even refused to let Danny help him with his project, leaving Danny to build a solar system representation made out of balloons, half of which deflate by the time the judges come around. The judges announce the winner of the Science Fair, Danny and his balloon solar system.Todd goes back to digging up worms out by the baseball diamond. Danny and Todd have been noticing a low rumble every time they go out to the diamond to dig. They even embarrassed themselves in front of the student body by proclaiming they were experiencing an earthquake.Todd collects a bucket of worms and carries them back to his basement, where Regina and Beth are hanging out. Todd shows them a "neat" trick: he takes a worm and slices it in two. The two halves continue to wiggle forming two worms. Regina tells Todd that the worms in his fish tank are watching him, that they know what he did and they're not happy, that they will take their revenge on him. The next day, Todd's baseball cap is filled with worms.Todd then begins finding worms in his bed, his food, his homework, so on. He finally decides that Regina is right, and becomes so convinced that the worms are seeking their revenge that he sneaks down to the basement to apologize to the worms, where he is caught by his father, who is wielding a baseball bat. Todd's father tells him he has to get rid of his worms once and for all.The next day at school, Todd walks to class in the pouring rain. When he enters the school, he and Danny overhear Regina telling her friend Beth about how she has been the one freaking Todd out, carefully placing worms all over his things to get him back for sabotaging her project. Todd drags Danny out to the baseball field to dig up worms after school. The rain has cleared and all the worms are coming out, the perfect time to grab some worms and get back Regina and Beth with them.As Danny and Todd are digging around in the ground, they feel the rumble again and this time, a giant worm the size of a tree trunk pops out of the ground, grabs Todd, and drags him underneath the soil of the baseball diamond. Danny waves at Regina and Beth, who are walking along the edge of the diamond, to help him. They are busy carrying their paper mache bird, the shadow of which falls onto the baseball diamond, casting the shadow of a giant bird. The giant worm sneaks back out of the soil, sees the bird shadow, and releases Todd from his grasp. Todd decides to abandon his worm hobby once and for all by tossing his worms out into the garden, and he begins to collect beautiful butterfly specimens instead, much to the delight of his sister.Todd is then awakened by a giant butterfly holding a huge silver pin, who has shown up to take revenge.
Todd is a worm fanatic. He collects them in his basement in a fish aquarium. He also studies them and does his science project on them. The worst thing he does is drop them on unsuspecting people. The person that is his number one victim is his sister Regina along with her friend Beth.I was not really into this book I gave it a three star mostly because of Regina and Beth. I was not happy at all with how it went. I didn't drop them on people, but I did collect worms in wheel-barrels as a child. They were always interesting to me too.Todd has always scared his sister so she sets out for revenge on him. She tells him after he cuts a worm in half that they are going to get their revenge on him. She is always telling him to go eat worms and well they start showing up in his food. I was suspicious of her from the start even when she swore it wasn't her.After the worm is cut in half things change. Todd finds them everywhere and I do mean everywhere. His hat, his food, even in his notebooks. He is convinced that it is his sister doing it. He plans to set up and find out, but his plan is stopped by his dad who thinks he's a somebody breaking in.By the end of the book Todd is onto another project, Butterflies. Let's just say I think they really do want revenge when the mother of all comes after Todd again. R.L. Stine has another great book, I just wasn't crazy about this one.
What do You think about Go Eat Worms! (1994)?
"Go Eat Worms" is almost identical to previous Goosebumps book "Monster Blood II." And that's not a good thing considering that is currently my lowest rated Goosebumps book of the series. Neither is all that scary, people bully or prank one another, and then a giant monster (this time the giant mother worm) pops up and scares the kids.But at least Monster Blood II made sense. Go Eat Worms is just completely ridiculous. There is no explanation of what the giant mother worm is or how it came to be. It is only present for a page or two. And how it is vanquished, by a paper mache bird is just dumb. The book itself is actually an enjoyable read and I had a few laughs. But as a Goosebumps book intended to scare, it's kind of a failure.1. One Day at Horrorland2. Night of the Living Dummy3. Say Cheese and Die4. Welcome to Dead House5. The Werewolf of Fever Swamp6. The Scarecrow Walks at Midnight7. Deep Trouble8. The Haunted Mask9. Welcome to Camp Nightmare10. Stay Out of the Basement11. Monster Blood12. The Ghost Next Door13 The Curse of the Mummy's Tomb14. Let's Get Invisible15. The Girl Who Cried Monster16. You Can't Scare Me17. Piano Lessons Can Be Murder18. Be Careful What You Wish For19. Why I'm Afraid of Bees 20. Monster Blood II21. Go Eat Worms
—Jay
Confession time: I'm the kind of person who carefully picks up worms on the pavement and puts them back on the grass, so they don't get run over or stepped on or dried out.So Todd, the main character in this book, is a real asshole. Not only because he tortures worms, cutting them in half and dropping them into things like coffee and soup - but he's an asshole to people, too. He's a mean person. He torments his little sister by dropping worms down her shirt and putting them in her food, he sabotages her science project with worms, he hates another kid at school because the kid likes playing with worms, too. He's just a horrible person.So I think he deserved what was coming to him.He starts to find worms in his bed, worms in his bath, worms in his sandwich. Are the worms seeking revenge? How can he make it stop?(view spoiler)[ Turns out his sister Regina is the one taking revenge! But there is a gigantic worm that lives below the baseball diamond and it DOES emerge and try to kill Todd. But it gets scared off. Does Todd learn anything from this experience? No, he doesn't. He then takes up the hobby of chloroforming and pinning butterflies. However, Stine hints that a giant butterfly is coming with a giant pin to take revenge... (hide spoiler)]
—Carmen
Todd is a collector of worms. He likes to torture his sister with his worms, putting it in her cereal, sandwich, down her back... One day, he cuts one of the worms in half and weird things started to happen. Todd thought the worms are getting revenge from him because they appeared everywhere in his things. At the end, he begins to collect butterflies. As you may know, R.L.Stine is my favorite author. After reading a book written by him, i could not stop reading his other books. They just appeared attractive to me, despite the fact that there are always mystery and scary things involved.When i was reading this book, some of the parts were really disgusting. I cannot imagine myself eating a sandwich with worms inside it. It is nasty to just think about it. However, i do have a question about the worms. Why are the worms purple? I have never seen a purple earth-worm.
—Jinbin
