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I never read any of Stine's GOOSEBUMPS books but this week I found a copy of Stine's only adult fiction book, SUSPICIOUS.

So far the stories are fulla sex and violence and college girls. I like Stine's depiction of sex better than the violence. I like the sex cuz its very different from you find at LIT. In the books prologue a college girl picks up a married man at a beerhouse, goes to his hotel room, and has sex.

During the sex she thinks of a professor at school, wonders why she keeps picking men up at bars, contemplates being 26 years old, and stews about undone chores at home. She gets outta bed, dresses, and the man pleads for a blowjob before she goes. She wants a hot bath.

Outside a dog barks at her, kids on skates almost collide with her, and an assailant scalps her then pushes her eyeballs out with his thumbs. She's in her head while all this happens.

Its depressing. Stine captures the depressed mood.
 
I admit that when my daughters were into Goosebumps and fear Street I read a few and considering the age of the target audience they weren't bad.

I always thought he was a good writer who found a hell of a niche.
 
I admit that when my daughters were into Goosebumps and fear Street I read a few and considering the age of the target audience they weren't bad.

I always thought he was a good writer who found a hell of a niche.

What impresses me is how he places sex in a supporting role and subordinates it to the story.
 
Almost every general novelist places sex in a supporting role. Stine is a horror writer. Of course the sex is subordinated to the horror.

A horror writer would write about baseball, and make the baseball support the horror. it wouldn't be a baseball story.

Presumably, the violence is also subordinate to the plot. That's not Stine's focus either.
 
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I read another Stine story today and thought of STELLA. A college girl complained that her boyfriend was hung like a hampster.
 
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