Saturday, March 5, 2011

Goosebumps - Night of the Living Dummy (from the LIving Dummy Collection) by R.L. STINE

Caution! if under the age of  3 please don't read this book because this will scare you out of your wits but if you have previously experienced the horrors ( and the nightmares) and already lost some of your wits, then this will scare you out of your remaining wits.
In the story 2 twins Kris and Lindy find a old ventriloquist's dummy next door ( and by the way the dummy was found by Lindy). So obviously Kris became way too jealous because Lindy became the best ventriloquist in the city and was earning money in birthday parties, so their father bought Kris a new dummy which she called Mr. Wood and Kris also started practising, but then things started to go wrong, very wrong. The dummy, Mr. Wood, started to appear at places and started destroying things. For example, it started talking, destroyed the refrigerator, Kris's jewellery was shattered to pieces, but the most horrible was when the dummy threw up green goo on the special concert Kris was supposed to perform at. Afterwards, Kris came to know that her sister was doing all this, but their parents were fed up of all this havoc, complaints etc. But then, Kris found a old piece of paper in the dummy's pocket it said Karru marri odonna loma molonu karrano, this was a strange language to Kris, she read these words aloud. Lo and Behold the dummy came to life! It called Kris it's servant, Kris tried throwing it away but it didn't work. Then, she tried killing it with a steam roller and at last, it worked! The steam roller flattened the dummy like a piece of paper. My opinion on this book is that it is too stupidly scary. When your read it, it seems like BOO! the dummy's going to come out and eat you but don't let that stop you - the story is quite impressive.