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The Beast from the East (2005)

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0439724031 (ISBN13: 9780439724036)
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The book I am reviewing name is Goosebumps the Beast from the East by RL Stines. It is science fiction book. My thinking is that the books theme is that you should do anything to survive but in the process of survival don't forget relationship.The book starts with a family that is on a picnic in a forest. The kids get separated from their family and they reach a place where there are blue giants forcing them to play a game. The winner gets to go home but the loser has to get chewed up alive so this now the test of their survival. There were only 3 through 4 character which were important but Ginger was the main character other characters are Nat and pat who were twins. They are also Gingers brothers who get lost.The book is really like interesting and entertaining if anyone reads this book there eyes will be glued to this book. The book has a lot of interesting plots of what's going to happen. My favorite part in the book was in the end when ginger and Pat lost the game in the end and they were almost going to be eaten by beast. I loved it when they were hearing the growls of the beast and the heated cauldron. It was really funny the description made me laugh and that's why I love the scene. Yes the book was descriptive. The book was so I descriptive I can visualize the characters and scenes. I can even make a movie out of this book. The book was concentrated on the smallest things like trees. The book wasn't confusing because everything was excellently described. My on question was that will they be able to make it out of the forest it was finally answered in the end. The book didn't have an opinion. The book affected me by that I would never go alone in the forest. So in the end my favorite scene is that when Nat, pat, and Ginger almost were being eaten by the beast. The beast got disappointed because they had to end the game. The reason was they thought Nat and Pat multiplied into two people because they looked alike and were twinsI would recommend this book to teenager both to boys and girl because this is the best book. It is great for even kids too because this doesn't have a single bad words. I haven't read any book like this but I have seen like a movie similar to this book. It is really a nice movie it is jumanji. It has almost like the same story like two kids finds a weird board game and plays it after each turn a card comes out and whatever things it say on the card comes trueThis is like the best book ever. It is not scary at all but is really an interesting book. I'd recommend it to teenager's girls and boys because this book is like really descriptive and a cool book. If I had to rate this book I would give it 5 out of 5 stars.

I think this is a great example of using cliffhangers to entice younger readers to keep turning those pages! Whereas otherwise I am not a fan of this book now as an adult, I recognise what an important example of learning to love reading this books stands for. It's very Alice in Wonderland and I'm so jealous Stine get's away with writing something so ridiculous and it totally works. There are gross out moments (hello cave of bugs??) and the ending is a great one. I love how Stine doesn't always give happy endings, why does no one acknowledge the importance that something things don't work out? Goosebumps are juvenile works for kids, but the books are now so much more. They're easy, they're silly, they're scary and even to this day some of them still give me Goosebumps! This one isn't a fav of mine but I'm happy this story is around because it invokes a never giving up attitude!

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Ginger Wald and her younger twin brothers (Nat and Pat) go on a camping trip with their parents. It all starts off well but in typical Goosebumps fashion it all goes to hell pretty quickly and Ginger and her two brothers find themselves lost in the woods. The flora and fauna of this part of the woods is pretty bizarre- yellow grass, umbrella- like trees as tall as skyscrapers. This is when Ginger and her brothers meet the Beasts. They are large creatures with blue fur. They want the three kids to play their favourite game of ‘Tag, you’re it’ in which the winners get to live and the losers? Well, they get eaten. ‘The Beast from the East’ is not the best of the original Goosebumps series in terms of characters or plot and I believe that Stine could have done a bit better with the material. Having said this, reading ‘The Beast from the East’ is an ok read.
—John

"Quiet! Here comes the Beast from the East. Don't make a sound or he'll find you!"...This book is SO weird but very enjoyable. It starts out with one of the most amazing openings:When I was a really little girl, my mom would tuck me into bed at night. She would whisper, "Good night, Ginger. Good night. Don't let the bed bugs bite."I didn't know what bedbugs were. I pictured fat red bugs with big eyes and spidery legs, crawling under the sheet. Just thinking about them made me itchy all over.After Mom kissed me on the forehead and left, Dad would step into my room and sing to me. Very softly. The same song every night. "The Teddy Bears' Picnic."I don't know hwy he thought that song made a good lullaby. It was about going into the woods and finding hundreds and hundreds of bears.The song gave me the shivers. What were the bears eating at their picnic? Children?After Dad kissed me on the forehead and left the room, I'd be itching and shaking for hours.GREAT OPENING. Ginger, her parents, and her twin 10-year-old brothers Pat and Nat, go on a camping trip. But the kids get lost in the woods. Woods that don't really look familiar. Woods with strange creatures and sentient trees.The children meet some huge, 8-foot, blue-furred creatures. To the kids' shock, the creatures speak English. One, named Fleg, slaps Ginger on the shoulder. She's now The Beast From the East.The creatures have now tagged her. If she can't remain hidden and uncaptured by sunset - they will eat her. She is told that she and her brothers better get running!Caught in an alien, deadly game of Tag with rules Ginger can't understand, trapped in an exotic jungle - Ginger is fighting in a game of survival. Can she and her brothers win the game and save their lives?...Tl;dr - This is one of the more bizarre Stine books. But it is fun, weird, cool, and engaging. There are few things children like more than imagining crazy, weird-looking beasts and Stine even flirts with creating a strange language in this book - let's just say that by the end, your children will be able to count to five in ... whatever alien language the beasts speak! LOL So cool.
—Carmen

I just finished reading this book for the first time in well over 15 years. It was somehow both sillier and scarier than I remember. I haven't read too many Goosebumps books in a while, but this one seemed to stray from the typical structure. In a good way, to me. The whole book is set in one fairly isolated location, which actually isn't too typical of a Goosebumps book (even those set at camp or some far off location), and the way the story wraps up kind of left me still worried and tense. I realize that all Goosebumps books have a cliff-hanger type ending, but this seemed... less stinger and more "damn." It was such a fun read and I breezed through it pretty quickly. I hope others enjoy it as much as I did.
—Samuel Barrera

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