Originally Posted by
Shlup
Goosebumps are what turned me into a life-long reader. My mom got me #1 when it was new, and I read all the way up to #48 before I outgrew them.
Same with me more or less, though looking at the covers right now I believe I stopped getting each new one with #47, but still got #51 when it came out. I think the first one, Welcome to Dead House was always my favourite. I don't know if it was just because I was getting older later on, but I remember it scaring me the most. Then again, by the time I stopped reading them I'd been watching horror movies for a year or two.
I honestly didn't read much before I got into Goosebumps. Not fiction anyway (I was more into books about space and dinosaurs). But once my mom gave me the first two books and I was hooked. I believe I read both of them in a few hours and demanded more.