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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...
...Locker 13 is a formulaic combination of junior-high athletics and supernatural intimations. The whole tale seems as overheated as its young hero Luke Greene's reaction when he learns he has been assigned the unlucky locker: "My breath caught in my throat. I started to choke...
Woods was unprepared for the crush of attention that accompanied his astonishing debut. He had difficulty making friends with other players. "He couldn't walk anywhere without being mobbed," says golfer Lee Janzen. "So he didn't spend any time in the locker room. Most of us didn't even get the chance to see him." The spotlight was blinding, Woods says. "It was a big change in my life. I turned pro, and suddenly, overnight, people knew who I was. I felt uncomfortable with it. There I was enjoying dinner with family and friends, and to have people...
This is silly. Every schoolboy knows the only worthwhile reason to become invisible is so you can case the girls' locker room undetected. Caine (an utterly charmless Kevin Bacon) does use his power voyeuristically in Hollow Man. But this being an up-to-date--that is to say, thoroughly ugly--movie, he doesn't stop there. He becomes a rapist. And then, of course, a murderer...
...ended there, the incident might only be notable for its absurdity: adult men fighting over a kids' version of a thuggish sport. But when Costin, 40, emerged from the locker room, Junta was there. The men started brawling. At six foot one and 275 pounds, Junta overwhelmed Costin, 100 pounds lighter, and allegedly beat him into a coma. Two days later, Costin - a part-time carpenter and single father of four - was dead...