Series: |
Give Yourself Goosebumps
#34
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Translated Into: |
Lift v nikuda [Лифт в никуда] (Russian)
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Author: |
Stine, R. L.
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Illustrator: |
White, Craig
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Release Date: |
March, 1999
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ISBN: |
0590516701 / 9780590516709
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Length: | 136 pages |
Number of Endings: | 23 |
User Summary: |
You visit your science fair partner's uncle, an inventor, and get mixed up in adventures involving an elevator that leads to other dimensions. |
Demian's Thoughts: |
There sure are a lot of strange scientist uncles in gamebook-land; the first few pages of this book felt awfully familiar to me. Indeed, there are a lot of familiar plot devices on display here, but I found the book to be a lot more fun than I expected. There's a clear mission to accomplish, a variety of places to explore, multiple paths to victory, and a sense of continuity nearly unprecedented in this series -- I was actually able to use something I learned from my first play-through to avoid getting killed during a later adventure. The book is also fairly well-written, having a certain sense of fun while still taking itself relatively seriously and, for better or worse, being surprisingly violent. This obviously isn't a classic, but it's another unexpectedly respectable entry in a series that I never thought I'd hold any respect for whatsoever.
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