The Blob That Ate Everyone

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#55 "He's no picky eater!"
This book should really be called The Haunted Typewriter, because when Zackie find an old typewriter in a burnt down antique store he starts writing his greatest story yet... The story of the blob monster that ate the whole town! Little does he know that everything he rights on this typewriter comes true! ( )

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This is one of those Goosebumps book whose cover I would see everywhere, and that I immediately got the reference to. Who didn't giggle at the thought of The Blob? It's an absurd concept, and apparently one that 'Zackie', the protagonist of this book, believes is wholly original.

Zackie wants to be a famous horror writer. He spends a lot of his spare time making up stories, but apparently the idea of a wholly original story is a bit beyond him. All of his stories involve his town and his friends, particularly his best friends Alex and Adam. When he happens to find an antique typewriter that makes everything he writes come true, well, the Blob Monster that he originally imagined becomes a bit of a problem for everyone.

This book was entertaining, but the main character's idiocy somewhat got in the way of me actually enjoying it. It took Zackie too long to realize the power of the typewriter, and ultimately when he did the ways he used it seemed poorly conceived. I think the book would have been better served by gong in a slightly different direction than him typing the town's destruction and being surprised when it came to pass, let alone the actual ending... ( )