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...Stine is launching yet another series of chill-inducing novels for adolescents and precocious younger siblings. He has a new running title, The Nightmare Room, and a new publisher, HarperCollins. Stine insists that he is not in the business of repeating himself: "I always describe Goosebumps as a roller-coaster ride, all the twists and turns and crazy things jumping out at you. I see The Nightmare Room more like a fun house. You step inside this place, and everything seems normal at first. And then you look and you see, ah, the floor is tilted. And then it looks...
...Roller coaster or fun house, the first two books in the new series, Don't Forget Me! and Locker 13, read like slightly more sophisticated installments of Goosebumps. Stine's prose is, as usual, simple, his dialogue attuned to the speech of the young ("awesome," "totally lost it," "Duh"). The plots of both involve Stine's trademark: teenagers being frightened witless in a context assuring readers that nothing truly dangerous will occur. As he admits, "There's more teasing than horror in my books...
Even by Silicon Valley standards, life at Google is ridiculously cool. The 120 employees at the two-story office block off Route 101 known as the Googleplex have everything a well-to-do West Coaster could wish for: full-time masseuse, yoga classes, all the Ben and Jerry bars they can eat and organic catering by the guy who used to do meals for the Grateful Dead. The only table in the boardroom is for Ping-Pong. There's pool, shuffleboard, two pianos, twice-weekly hockey games, K'nex models for the nerd set--which is everyone--and even...
...sorts. And that means that ever since New Year's I've had to purchase several new bottles of antacid, which I clutch faithfully every morning as the market opens. It all looked so rosy back in '98, and now it's like a terrible and extremely expensive roller coaster...
...movements anywhere in the park. The watches send out regular signals that are picked up by 14 sensors located throughout the park. A central computer triangulates the wearer's exact location, which is then displayed on a map at special kiosks. From now on, "Stay off the roller coaster" really means "Stay off the roller coaster...