![]() ![]() The pranks just felt like a waste of time. This takes up a full two-thirds of the book. Lindy is rightfully mad that Kris won’t let her have her own thing, and so she stages a series of elaborate pranks to make Kris believe that Mr. ![]() ![]() The twin’s parents only made things worse by buying Kris her own dummy, Mr. This level of sibling rivalry is understandable. When Lindy finds a ventriloquist dummy in a dumpster, Kris quickly becomes jealous of her sister and the dummy Slappy. Lo and behold, Kris and Lindy turned out to be assholes. ![]() Who names their dog Barky? Assholes name their dog Barky. Score: 1.5Īn early tell that the Powell family was going to be terrible was that their dog’s name was Barky. To cap it off, the twist ending felt cheap, and I usually love Stine’s twist endings. Wood came off as more cartoonishly evil than I would have hoped. There is an inherent creepiness to ventriloquist dummies, but the book did little to build on that premise. It might have been a spot-on characterization of preadolescent twin sibling rivalry, but it sure made them impossible to empathize with. The twin protagonists of the story are straight-up awful. Night of the Living Dummy is one of the best-remembered and most iconic books of the Goosebumps series. ![]()
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