Scream 3 Books

This is the first book of a 3-part series. I love R.L. Stine, and I love amusement parks. This was a good book, but it wasn't the cozy type that I like - it was more gory. The book was about the original Fear Family trying to stop the development of Fear Park. But it was a good and enjoyable book.

This bok is one of the best boks i have ever read, I mean it's hard to put it down, I recomend this book for any teen whos into horror or mysteries

I liked this book a lot but I thought it was very violent like when the teenagers were hacking each other to death with hatchets and I didn't like the fact that Robin Fear kills all the people for like no reason at all. Well,if you like Horrer then you will most likely like it. Hope this helps!

This was a very good book. Although it was very violent, it was still good. I would of still like the book if he didn't describe the teenagers hacking themselves to death so much with all the gore.

i just finshed reading this book and it's creepy.Especially at the part where everyone's chopping eachother. It's a good book but has lot of gory details.

This is a great mystery with a ghost called the red lady who appears and vanishes. Really good story for all Cheerleader mystery fans

I would recomend this book to any body who likes to be scared. Delle Arlen wants nothing more that to make the cheerleading squad. But mysterious events keep occuring. Too many people have died. What is the truth behind these death?
This book will take your breath away. If you have asthma watch out. Have your inhaler at all times or else.
Pick up Diane Hoh's "Nightmare Hall the Scream Team" if you dare.

This book is cool! It is really well written and fun to read!

When I started reading this book I taught it would be excellent, but I was dead wrong. It is absolutly crap and is totally unoriginal.

I was surprised to see what results the little girl's aunt had for her. I figured letting her scream and get it out of her system was better than keeping it inside her. Making the list and actually telling the other children how they made her feel was a "sound" solution. What it all comes down to is SELF ESTEEM. How you feel about YOURSELF. Adults can benefit from this book, too. So many seminars today are based on self esteem. I thought the illustration were colorful and alive. Laura is very proud of her book and I look forward to passing it along to my children and grandchildren.

We all know that children get upset and angry at the littlest things. Well actually, what may seem like a trivial matter to adults, could make a child terribly angry. How can we teach our children to deal with and channel their anger?

In the book, "I Am So Angry, I Could Scream," a little girl named Penny gets very angry in response to different situations throughout the story. She doesn't know quite how to handle her anger, until her aunt Rose shows her how to use an Anger Chart to help her deal with her anger in positive ways.

My ParenTime recommends the book, "I Am So Angry, I Could SCREAM" by Laura Fox, M.A. -- the illustrations are colorful and descriptive, and the situations that Penny deals with throughout the book are real. I personally wouldn't read the book as a bedtime story though...I feel it's a bit too long for that. Besides the fact that it would be most effective when children are not sleepy. But I must say, that the book does do a wonderful job of teaching children about an important emotion - I've read it to my 6 year old a few times now :-). Also, by using the Anger Chart, you can help your child discover that their anger can be dealt with in a positive way.

The book I read was called Primal Scream. It was an ok book but I really didn't like it. It was kind of confusing but I got through it. The book is about a group of people in a jungle and they are looking for killers. Animals start to attack them. They have people give them strange gifts. People get body parts in boxes. One time this guy got a shrunken head as a gift. They would get arms, eyes, weird things like that.
I thought it was a little weird. If you like weird books then read this one. It is called Primal Scream By Michael Slade. Do you like suspense, do you like excitement then read This book. Its funny, scary and suspenseful. Maybe you will get a shrunken head too!

This series of books is not for the squeamish or the faint of heart. I found that after reading a few they became a bit repetative.

Being cooped up in the house during the weather led to a bit more reading time. That, and a two hour commute on light rail. Anyway, I just finished Primal Scream by Michael Slade. A strange and gruesome book that doesn't rank among my favorites. To start with, I think that much of the character development takes place in his earlier book Headhunter (which I haven't read). As a result, there were continual references to people and events that I didn't know anything about but that were important to this story. Next, there are two crime stories going on here that may or may not be interrelated, and it was confusing to figure out what was going on, and why. Third, there are vivid depictions of rape and sexual fetish stuff that is key to the story. Not for the squeamish. The storyline is that there are killings (beheadings, actually) that are going on, and they are similar to a crime spree from the first book. DeClerq is trying to solve the crime and figure out if they perhaps killed the wrong person on the earlier case. Some suspenseful moments to be sure, but very disturbing and somewhat confusing to follow...

Once you've started one of Slade's books, you might give it up if you're not inured to violence and suspense, but otherwise he really keeps you wanting more. Once you've read MANHUNTER you'll want to find out more about LeCLERCQ and his obsession with killers of the past and present. PRIMAL SCREAM completes his voyage into the past, with the violent death of his own daughter a throbbing memory inside his brain compelling him to lead an investigation into a possible copy cat killer. There's even a young girl called KATT, as if to hint at a COPY KATT!!

Is Slade even a real person? I wonder if it isn't the pseudonym behind which a variety or people can make their feelings known on the topic of serial killing. One thing this putative syndicate could do to raise the standard of their books is to get some more imaginative titles. For example, HEADHUNTER and PRIMAL SCREAM. There must be dozens of books and movies already with those names. PRIMAL SCREAM is a psychoanalutical movement, for goodness sakes. The way Slade writes you'd think it was a heavy metal band.

Canada must be proud that for a country with not very many people (compared to the US) Slade has populated it with mad maniacs and determined grim-jawed cops in pursuit. And plenty of victims whose blood is rich with riboflavin.

Of the 11 Special X books Michael Slade has written I have never told anyone to "read them in order." New comers to the series can start anywhere and become immersed in the wonderful world Michael Slade had given us...

Primal Scream, the sixth Special X books from bestselling author Michael Slade, is the one exception to that rule. This book CAN be read and enjoyed without reading the previous novels, but reading Headhunter first will increase the tension level within Primal Scream by ten fold.

A severed head is delivered to Robert DeClercq at Special X HQ and ten years of questions, guilt, and angst from the case that nearly destroyed him come thundering back to the forefront of DeClercq's life. Now the elite psycho hunters of Special X must race against the clock to catch a killer that should already be dead.

Primal Scream will keep you on the edge of your seat waiting for the next shocking body blow to be delivered, while Michael Slade smiles and taunts you with what might happen next.

Filled with shock and suspense, Primal Scream will have you screaming for more.

The late Paul Zindel, most famous for his Pulitzer Prize winning playwriting, ended up his very prolific writing career with this series of murder mysteries aimed at adolescent readers. THE SCREAM MUSEUM inaugurates the series, narrated by hot shot teen sleuth P.C. Hawke and his equally brainy sidekick McKenzie. In Book 1 the kids' friend Tom, a slow-witted custodian at the musuem where P.C.'s dad works, is accused of murdering entomologiest Conchetta Farr. P.C. and McKenzie, aware of Tom's essentially gentle nature, know this cannot be the case and set out to discover the real killer.

This is nothing special, and it certainly does not rank among Zindel's finer works for young people, but it has an agreeable pace and a nice sense of how teens think and live life in the early 21st century. Best of all the narrator and his friend are eminently likable and believable characters.

This would make for a good intro for young people into the mystery genre.

Zindel does not meet his usual quality of writing in this book. In the first chapter, P.C. says that his father left town yesterday, then says that his father's been out of town for a week. I also doubt that P.C., a high school junior, would have Jesus, a 13-year-old computer wiz, for a best friend. And the relationship with Jesus seems to be for P.C.'s benefit primarily. I will warn my junior high students that this book is not as good as others by Paul Zindel before they read it. I don't know whether I will invest in the rest of the series for my classroom library or not. The story was entertaining, but I feel that Zindel did not take the time to think carefully during the writing process. Take your time, Paul - you have great ideas to get kids reading!

"The Scream Museum" starts with someone already murdered which is the biggest mystery in the book. P.C. Hawke and his partner Mackenzie try to uncover clues in hopes to find out who the murderer is. They ask most of the characters where they were st the time of the murder and in time, they soon believe they have their man just like on an episode of Law and Order or CSI...but P.C. is mistaken. It's a neat suspenseful mystery novel.

Well....at least it's mystery for ya. I could not put it down.

In my opinion the book The Scream Museum was excellent. This book was full of suspense and mystery.The setting of this book was well described. Characters in this book was also well described. I would recomend this book to any one who loves murder mysteries. Also to any one who would like to sit patiently and read such a great book.

I thought the Scream Museum was a slow, boring book. I wouldnt really recommend it to anyone, unless they really like those suspence books alot. It was about a boy, P.C Hawke, who dreams of being a detective. When there is a murder at the Museum of Natural History, where his father works, he jumps on the case. Tom, who is the custodian at the musuem, is accused of the murder but P.C knows that Tom wouldnt hurt a fly. He along with his best friend, Mackenzie, try to find the real murderer and prove Tom innocent. They believe that it must have been one of the two co-workers who are now fighting for the womans job. Can P.C and Mackenzie prove Tom innocent?

Noir contains three 1950s written stories by Matheson, which although will adequately pass the time, are nothing special and certainly no where near the masterpiece league level of his classics I Am Legend, The Shrinking Man or Duel.

Richard Matheson is the master of the normal guy suddenly plunged into a terrifying situation thriller and the only story in Noir where we see even an aspect of this is the final one, Ride the Nightmare. In this story the everyday person is shared at different times in the novel between both the husband and wife but these characters are not as well written as in the above mentioned masterpieces or even stories that weren't quite in that league such as Hunted Past Reason. We don't really get into the depths of these character's minds that we do with those novels and there are no surprises in their at times very predictable actions. Nor are there any twists in this or the former two Noir stories. They're all just straight up, tell the story.

Three stories follow a mini biography or Matheson and his work which is quite interesting in its own right. The first story Someone is Bleeding has Dave falling head over heels for a woman, named Peggy, who he sees on the beach. He believes she is the most beautiful woman he has ever seen. When she invites him to a party he can't believe his luck, but there he learns she is sort of spoken for by a guy he went to high school with who he didn't like much then. He doesn't think any higher of him when he tells Dave she's a murderer and hater of men. Dave is determined to be with Peggy, surely she's no psycho!

Fury on Sunday has an escape from a mental institute by a man who goes on a murder spree once out. Pretty much straight up and down storyline.

Ride the Nightmare easily the best of the three has happy couple Chris and Helen, with a young daughter. One night they receive an irritating dinner phone call. Helen answers and although not an annoying telemarketer, her night (and next day) is about to ruined. The caller asks for her husband but calls him by a different name. Helen tells the caller he's got the wrong number but he insists to speak with Chris. It seems Chris hasn't told Helen everything about his past.

So although good enough to pass the time I wouldn't buy Noir for someone to introduce them to Matheson's work. However if they've read all his classics, it's worth picking up.

"Noir" includes three short novels written by the legendary Richard Matheson back in the 1950's. These works bring us back to an era of in your face, hard-boiled, and unsubtle prose. In the first novel, "Someone is Bleeding," a writer named Dave Newton falls in love with a beautiful blonde who seems to harbor an antipathy towards men. "Fury on Sunday" describes the escape of an inmate from an insane asylum, and his subsequent attempt to take revenge on those who have wronged him. The final novel, "Ride the Nightmare" is about a family whose world is turned upside down when a shadowy figure from the past decides to pay them a visit.

The first two stories are occasionally suspenseful, but the author's melodramatic writing style and one-dimensional characters keep them from being first-rate. Matheson writes truncated "just the facts, ma'am" type of sentences, which evoke the fifties very well: "Eyes. That was my first impression. The biggest and brownest eyes I'd ever seen, great big eyes seeming to search for something." All three novels feature psychotic characters who lash out at others. In the first story, a woman named Peggy attracts men easily but she cannot bring herself to trust them. Is this femme fatale also a homicidal maniac? In the second story, Vince is a gifted former concert pianist whose career is cut short when he has a mental breakdown. After he escapes from the hospital where he has been confined, he sets out to kill the husband of the woman he loves. Will a night of abject terror end in tragedy? These first two novels, although occasionally powerful, lack depth and realism.

The third novel, "Ride the Nightmare," illustrates how much Matheson grew as a writer as his career progressed. In this story, Chris Martin lives with his wife, Helen, and their young daughter, Connie. Chris runs a successful music store, and he is proud of everything that he has accomplished. One day, he gets a call from someone who harbors a serious grudge against him. He must face the fact that he has unwittingly embroiled his beloved wife and child in a terrible situation from which there may be no escape. "Riding the Nightmare" is a mature and well-developed tale with nail-biting scenes of suspense and violence.

"Noir" provides a nostalgic look at a prose style that exemplifies fifties fiction. It also gives the reader a glimpse of three early works by Richard Matheson, the author of many memorable scripts for the Twilight Zone as well as other successful television shows and films.

"Someone Is Bleeding". In Santa Monica, writer Dave has fallen in love with Peggy. However, he begins to have doubts when he begins to find male corpses everywhere he goes. Could his sweet Peggy be a man-hating serial killer and if yes how can he avoid joining her deadly list?

"Fury on Sunday". Manhattan concert pianist Vincent was already a bit crazy when he finally goes off the deep end. He begins murdering people who cross his path turning the mean streets even meaner with a final confrontation in his apartment.

"Ride the Nightmare". In California, Chris has come a long way from his misspent youth. He loves his wife Helen and their daughter and is willing to die to keep them safe. He soon has the opportunity as his past has arrived in California not concerned about collateral damage.

These three suspense thrillers were written in the 1950s by the author of Duel (basis for the Spielberg movie). "Ride the Nightmare" and "Someone is Bleeding" are fabulous novellas that hook the audience from the start and never slows down as seemingly nice middle class people get caught in maelstroms of perilous trouble. On the other hand "Fury on Sunday" follows a maniac without getting inside him making his killing spree seem endless; this tale would have been better as a short with a smaller body count. Still overall NOIR lives up to its title.

Harriet Klausner

Karol Ladd is an attractive, articulate woman who specializes in bringing Christ's teachings to the least understood group of human beings in America--the stay at home Moms who are often misunderstood, especially in Texas ever since that woman went a little crazy and killed all her kids. Don't let that happen to you, and get yourself a copy of "Scream Savers," which is a Bible-based guide to keeping your cool even when your kids get out of hand.

Whatever you do, spare your children from your own neuroses, especially if they are the fatal kind in which the chikdren are not seen as loving dependents, but as enemies of the stay-at-home mother. Karol Ladd, who has written over thirty books, and spoken often to many Texas and national women's groups, can show you the way. She is not exactly a stay at home Mom herself, but she's been there, and she will help you to cope. Remember, murder is not a resort, even a last resort, but prayer and confidence can and should be your first port of call when you make your voyage into the pften rewarding world of being a Stay at Home Mom.

There are many great tips here. Recommended. Karol Ladd could be the cousin of the starlet Cheryl Ladd, both are petite and blonde and very articulate and together women with a love of Texas that shines right through them.

This is a good book but it is very tiny and looks like something you'd pick up in the supermarket checkout line. It's a great pick me up but nothing incredibly life changing is in it - just simple common sense things to keep your cool, i.e. count to 10, etc.

I liked the stories in this book(although they were not as scary as they were cracked up to be) only it made me mad when I found out that one of the stories (the main one) was a continuing story. All it gave was a small section about what had happened in the book before, and it did not go into great detail. Other than that, and the fact that the stories are not too scary, it was pretty good. I do not recommend buying it unless you have the first book.

I thought that this was an okay book for beginner horror fans, especially if you enjoy the Goosebumps line of books. However if you are someone who doesn't think too highly of Goosebumps then I suggest you avoid this title. For the most part this title keeps you on the edge of your seat, but it isn't too hard to put down. Even though the title lacks imagination the plot is pretty original. In conclusion if you are a fan of beginner thrillers like Goosebumps then I suggest you take a look, if not you shouldn't bother with this novel.

I read books one and two of this trilogy and I HATED them. I have yet to find a book written by Phillip Athans that I like.

His characters are unlikeable (and that's an understatement), he uses bizarre flashbacks at the oddest times, and he jumps past key plot elements with barely a mention.

I think I'm probably going avoid anything this author writes in the future.

Ive got to completely disagree with the usual reviews for this book.
2 stars? are they nuts?
Yes, this is not a book for the stupid, it is not a book for people who are simply lookign for action.
b ut the watercourse trilogy is one of the best books IVe ever read. a hefty some.
the characters may seem bland to some but their actually flushed out VERY well. you just need to pay attention and above all else trust me
READ THIS SERIES IN ORDER!!

I read both Whisper of Waves (Forgotten Realms: Watercourse Trilogy Book 1) and Lies of Light: The Watercourse Trilogy, Book II (The Watercourse Trilogy) the days they came out. I was originally very excited about this trilogy because of the mentioned "world shattering" event (completion of the canal) and thought this would be a very interesting trilogy because the "world shattering" event was not a huge war or the magical artifact changing the world; but rather a politically motivated, blood and sweat event.

This being the final series in the Watercourse Trilogy I was expecting great things from this book. I really enjoyed the first book and somewhat disappointed in the second book. The chapters are extremely short and the storyline jumps all over the place. Not only this, but the books span several years and unless you are very knowledgable about the Faerun calendar system or pay close attention the months and dates at the beginning of every chapter it can be difficult to follow how much time has passed between chapters. This book did a better job of verbally explaining how long someone had been in jail or exiled compared to the book's predecessors; but, it was still slightly difficult to gauge the time. There is a helpful calendar explanation as an appendix, and this would have been more helpful in the first two books, as well.

The one shining part of this trilogy was one of the main characters: Ivar Devorast. I thought he was an intriguing character and I thoroughly enjoyed his attitude and demeanor. Some of the other characters I could have done without as their story lines were hardly engaging and I didn't care what really happened to them.

Overall, a very disappointing trilogy with so much potential. I would only recommend this book to those that have already read the first two books in the Watercourse Trilogy and die-hard Forgotten Realms fans.

Scream of Stone by Philip Athans is the final book in the Watercourse Trilogy. The first book in this trilogy is titled Whisper of Waves (Forgotten Realms: Watercourse Trilogy Book 1) and the second is titled Lies of Light: The Watercourse Trilogy, Book II (The Watercourse Trilogy). For fans of the Forgotten Realms this book, and series for that matter, this book is unlike most other Forgotten Realms books. It is written in very short chapters, most about 2-5 pages. It goes without saying, but if you have not read the first two books in this trilogy than you really do need to before reading this one. There are events that occur in this book that would make very little sense to someone who is not up to speed with the rest of the story.

The plot of this novel carries on with the plot from the first two books fairly well. There are also a couple sub-plots that are brought to conclusions from the previous books. The main plot line is of a character attempting to make a canal to connect the Lake of Steam and the Nagaflow. However, there are some that don't want this to happen, and of course some that do want it to come to fruition. One of the sub-plots is a Thayan envoy attempting to play the senators against each other to get what he wants. Another sub-plot involves a character from the first two books and something that happened to him and what he is set to do now. Overall, this book, for the most part, continues the overall plot lines of the first two books.

The characters in this novel are largely the same as from the previous two books. In my reviews of the first two books I commented that largely the characters seemed flat and uninteresting. Not much has really changed with this book. I still enjoyed the character Ivar, and I found myself more interested in Pristoleph other than those two though, the characters seemed flat and uninteresting. They seem to be cast in clichéd roles and were two-dimensional. There was very little true character development in this book, and really in this trilogy, aside from a few small instances. From the start of this book, it is fairly obvious what is going to happen in terms of how the characters will act and what, in the end, will occur.

This book, as a whole, is really nothing but average. The clichéd characters could have been salvaged. However, how the book was written, jumping from piece to piece via these ultra short chapters makes for a book that feels disjointed and it was extremely difficult for me to focus on something. It seemed every time the story was picking up steam, there was a new chapter and a dramatic shift in events.

Aside from the clichéd characters and flow, my main criticism of this book is that this trilogy has always been billed as a `Realms Shaking Event'. Something that would change the landscape of Faerun forever. However, at the conclusion of this book and trilogy, very little (if anything) has been changed. In fact, once I finished the book I felt as though I was merely back at square one where the firs novel picked up. I felt distinctively cheated by this fact. I invested the time and effort to read three novels, only to be back where I started.

Phil Athan is a wonderful author, and I have enjoyed many of his previous works. However, this trilogy is not one of them. I feel let down by the conclusion, I feel let down by the flatness of the characters. All in all it was just a blah reading experience for me. While there are some decent moments in this novel, they do not save this book (or trilogy) from mediocrity. This will not be a book, or trilogy, that I will be recommending to people.