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Goosebumps 2000 #17

الرجل الذئب في حجرة المعيشة

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Aaron's dad thinks he's found a real live werewolf, and keeps him caged up inthe living room. Aaron thinks it's a big joke--until he sets the man free andthree people are attacked by a wolf creature!.

115 pages, Paperback

First published May 1, 1999

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R.L. Stine

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Robert Lawrence Stine known as R. L. Stine and Jovial Bob Stine, is an American novelist and writer, well known for targeting younger audiences. Stine, who is often called the Stephen King of children's literature, is the author of dozens of popular horror fiction novellas, including the books in the Goosebumps, Rotten School, Mostly Ghostly, The Nightmare Room and Fear Street series.

R. L. Stine began his writing career when he was nine years old, and today he has achieved the position of the bestselling children's author in history. In the early 1990s, Stine was catapulted to fame when he wrote the unprecedented, bestselling Goosebumps® series, which sold more than 250 million copies and became a worldwide multimedia phenomenon. His other major series, Fear Street, has over 80 million copies sold.

Stine has received numerous awards of recognition, including several Nickelodeon Kids' Choice Awards and Disney Adventures Kids' Choice Awards, and he has been selected by kids as one of their favorite authors in the NEA's Read Across America program. He lives in New York, NY.

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Profile Image for Austin Smith.
709 reviews66 followers
March 4, 2021
*Sigh*

So, this used to be one of my favorite GB books when I was younger, and probably my favorite S2K book... Naturally, I went into my reread of it with high expectations. Unfortunately, it doesn't really hold up as well as I remember...

The whole first part of the book (the book is split into two parts, roughly at the halfway mark) is really sloppy and too fast paced. This is another s2k book where the story being told is a bit too big for its own good. There's too much stuff going on in part one and most of it doesn't make sense or really back up the story... or provide logical explanations to support any of it. It just feels really cluttered. Almost like a rough draft, and not the final published version.

Aaron, our protagonist, is in the foreign country of Bratvia hunting werewolves with his dad. A bunch of crazy stuff happens in the opening (including a confusing and needless dream sequence). But Part One takes place entirely in "Bratvia".
Part Two of the story takes place "back home", where they keep their captured werewolf locked up in a cage...

Part Two is where the story starts to get a lot better. There are a few twists and turns that are quite enjoyable, and the story feels like it moves at a much more steady pace than in part one. Unfortunately, I just didn't quite enjoy this book as much this time around.
I love werewolves and werewolf stories. Always have. Werewolf Skin and Werewolf of Fever Swamp are two of my favorites from the original GB series.
This book just didn't really hold up all that well. Plot-holes galore, logical fallacies to no end, and the ending wasn't too bad, but by the end, I just felt like this book left a little bit of a stale taste in my mouth.
I was a little disappointed. I still like the book, I just feel like it could be so much better. A missed opportunity.
Overall, I give this book a 3.25 / 5, which still isn't bad. If nothing else, this book provides more nostalgia for me than most other s2k books, and has an absolutely sick cover art.
Profile Image for Emma  Chantiri.
3 reviews2 followers
April 25, 2022
This is one of those books that's really affected me emotionally, there's a sadness to it that's very present. Stine really puts effort into this I mean the thematic stuff with the father and son have more of a clear arc and catharsis (certainly does it better than Scream School). Part two is definitely the superior part, there's a few sections in part one I'm not a fan of (although I think it's kind of interesting how the whole hunting section is essentially a nightmarish concoction, a world his father built that Aaron can't escape from). The journey of this book is so sweet that by the end even if it doesn't totally land on its feet, the ride was worth it. Certainly a case of a book being so passionate that I think it really endears itself to me, flaws be damned.
Profile Image for Josiah.
3,485 reviews157 followers
August 10, 2016
R.L. Stine's Goosebumps Series 2000 is different from the original, no doubt about it. The plots are less conventionally structured, going on jags that will surprise longtime Goosebumps fans. The Werewolf in the Living Room is a good example of what makes the Series 2000 unlike its predecessor, even if it isn't one of the better books in the series. Eleven-year-old Aaron Freidus and his father aren't your average father-son team. Aaron's mother died two years ago, and his father is the town sheriff...who happens to be obsessed with hunting werewolves. His preoccupation with capturing a live werewolf specimen prompts him to take Aaron on a summer excursion to the distant country of Bratvia, where lycanthropes are a common part of national lore. If Aaron's father can catch a werewolf and bring it back to America, he'll finally prove what he's been convinced of all along: that werewolves are not just a figment of superstitious legend. This trip to Bratvia is destined to define the rest of Aaron's and the sheriff's lives.

Isolated, heavily wooded Bratvia gives Aaron the creeps, but at least he knows his father will keep him safe. That is, until a late-night encounter with a snarling beast which may have been a werewolf shakes Aaron's confidence. But his anxiety over being stalked by a mythical carnivore doesn't last long when a trap his father sets captures the werewolf...or so his father claims. The sad little man inside the cage looks nothing like a monster, but the sheriff insists he's the werewolf who attacked Aaron, and he'll morph again into his savage form under the glow of the next full moon. Aaron's father has the man transported back to their house in America, then arranges a special television event: by the light of the full moon, the viewing audience will witness the captive change into his true form, and doubts over the existence of werewolves will be permanently dispelled. But the man seems harmless and profoundly forlorn, and tells Aaron every time they're alone that he's a normal human and his father has made an awful mistake, that the sheriff is going to be shamed in front of the world unless Aaron unlocks the cage and lets him go. Aaron doesn't know what the right thing to do is, but the outcome of his choice will affect him and his father in ways he can't foresee. The curse of the werewolf is more far-reaching than even the sheriff comprehends.

I'm impressed with the Series 2000 overall, but The Werewolf in the Living Room doesn't measure up to its best entries. I'd bump my rating to one and a half stars in appreciation of the story's innovative trajectory, but I ended up more confused than astounded by it. If you want a good Series 2000 werewolf novel, I suggest Full Moon Fever. Insatiable Goosebumps fans will want to read The Werewolf in the Living Room, but you won't miss too much if you skip this one.
Profile Image for Fatoni M.
367 reviews82 followers
June 24, 2022
Fatoni Maraton Goosebumps Series 2000
Buku 17 dari 25

Aaron punya Ayah yang terobsesi dengan werewolf. Hal ini, sampai membuatnya diajak Sang Ayah untuk berburu werewolf di sebuah negara di Eropa--emang rada-rada sakit orangtua di buku-buku Goosebumps. Perburuan itu kemudian mengantarkan pada insiden Aaron lah yang justru mendapatkan kutukan itu dan menjadi werewolf. Agak gimana gitu, dia punya ayah pemburu werewolf sementara dia sendiri werewolf.

Bagian awal buku ini sangat berantakan. Ceritanya lompat-lompat nggak jelas, padahal intinya cuma sebuah insiden Aaron digigit werewolf. Bagian kedua buku ini untunglah lebih baik. Walaupun alurnya terlalu sederhana, aku suka hubungan ayah-anak antara Aaron dan Ayahnya--bahkan ada sedikit sweet moment. Akhir buku ini juga termasuk ke dalam happy ending dibandingkan twisted one seperti buku-buku lain.
Profile Image for Butterfly2507.
1,377 reviews52 followers
December 3, 2019
Das Buch war gar nicht so schlecht, vor allem weil ich eine Zeit lang komplett auf dem Holzweg war! :D Super für Kinder die den Gruselfaktor brauchen oder ewig jung gebliebene wie mich, die das schon in ihrer Kindheit gelesen haben! :)
Profile Image for Jameson.
21 reviews
October 28, 2016
Great book dont remember the begining because i took a break
Profile Image for Joseph.
355 reviews2 followers
July 25, 2023
R.L. Stine was writing like, three or four books per month, which must have been very difficult, even if he was using ghostwriters (which, if I understand, he denies). Maybe that explains why this feels like it was written over a weekend, with him just throwing out each idea as it came. The story is a mess—it opens with a dream sequence, unimportant characters get half-page physical descriptions, wild dogs randomly appear when we need more drama, etc.

Most egregious, in my opinion, is that the whole setup of this story just couldn't happen in the real world. Aaron's dad is a self-proclaimed werewolf hunter whom everyone thinks is crazy. So he schleps over to a fictional Eastern European(?) country, grabs some guy he thinks is a werewolf, and the authorities just...let him take him, in chains, on a boat back to America. Back in the States, the guy is trapped in a cage in Aaron's living room, all while his dad is calling TV stations and planning to videotape the werewolf transformation. The explanation is that he's the town's sheriff, so everyone has to obey him, but I'm pretty sure that a small-town sheriff isn't allowed to keep prisoners in their own home without charges, let alone practice jurisdiction over other countries.

A lot of Goosebumps books have questionable parenting, so I kind of appreciate that here, we're just admitting that Aaron's dad is a maniac who endangers his son for his own goals. He actually gets an arc out of it! It's not amazingly done, but still.

So why am I giving it three stars? Because despite all these problems, I gotta say: this is the third werewolf story I read this month ("Julycanthropy"), and it actually scratched my itch better than the others. We see Aaron turn into a werewolf and experience that sense of losing control to feral instinct—though granted, that angle seems to get dropped fairly quickly, and he seems more "himself but furry" for the last bit of the book. There's also some good atmospheric stuff, like the random birds acting creepy in the forest. (Sort of disappointed they didn't, y'know, matter.)

Also, gotta say about the werewolf lore: it's weird that Stine actually alludes to more obscure legends, but then just follows the typical movie rules of "become a werewolf when bitten, turn on the full moon (which lasts several days because confining the plot to one night is hard)." And yet, Aaron somehow doesn't realize that being bitten is going to turn him into a werewolf, even when weird fur sprouts from the wound.

Another reason I'm being generous: while they're assembled poorly, this really does have all the pieces of a cool story; all of the big problems can be fixed pretty easily. The weird legal stuff? Just having Aaron's dad find the guy in the woods near his town, and keep him in his house secretly instead of blabbing to the world about it. Aaron doesn't realize that the bite infected him? Make them folklore snobs who know that the bite thing was made up by the movies, only to be surprised when it turns out to be true anyway. Basically, we just needed another draft to make a coherent story.

Plus, it's Goosebumps. All the dumb problems are part of its charm.
Profile Image for Reham Mohamed.
200 reviews13 followers
September 7, 2022
«صرخه رعب»
العدد 52
اسم العمل الرجل الذئب في حجره المعيشه
اسم المؤلف ار. ال. شتاين
ترجمه رجاء عبد الله
اشراف عام داليا ابراهيم
اسم دار النشر نهضه مصر للطابعه والنشر
عدد الصفحات 115
التصنيف رعب

🔖هذا المخلوق له وجه وجه ذئب، وصد واكتاف انسان! نظر نحوي بعينيه السوداين اللامعتين، وضم شفتيه الغليظتين! حملت برعب في انيابه الطويله الحادة: وقبل ان اتمكن من الجري تاكد المخلوق على الصدمات، رفع راسه اصدار عواء وحشيا! وقفز بعنف.... قفز الى اكتافه، ثم غرز اسنانه عميقا في جلدي!

🔖 تدور القصه حول شاب اسمه ارون وكان عمره احد عشرا عاما، وكان ابيه ضابط شرطه يتبع رجال الذئاب، ويبحث عنهم في كل مكان، وفي مره من المرات التي يذهبون فيها في الاجازه، للبحث عن رجال الذئاب ذهبوا الى براتفيا التي كان يعتقد الاب انها ملئية بالرجال الذئاب ومن هنا تبدا حياة بطلنا ارون لتغير 360درجه ولم تعد كما كانت في السابق

🔖الاحداث ممتعه جداا ولم اشعر بالملل
🔖الترجمه ممتازه
🔖اللغة استخدمت الكاتبه الفصحي للترجمه
#الرجل_الذئب_في_حجرة_المعيشة
#ار_ال_شتاين
#ترجمة_رجاء_عبدالله
#مراجعة_ريهام_عبداللطيف
Profile Image for Tanya.
1,152 reviews36 followers
September 7, 2021
This is another one of my favourite goosebumps books Aaron is an eleven year old boy whose father Is the sheriff of their small town who has an obsession with hunting werewolves. They go to Bratvia for a werewolf hunting trip and to man Aaron up. On the trip Aaron gets bitten by a werewolf and the werewolf gives him a tooth pendant necklace that is a sign of a werewolf. It scares an old woman and a pack of dogs. When Aaron and his father return back home with a man named Ben Grantley who Aaron’s dad is convinced he is the werewolf. But Aaron turns into a werewolf but gets scared when people and dogs are attacked including Aaron’s best friends Ashlee’s dog. Soon a chase with Aaron’s dad and his police force are chasing a werewolf Aaron but after they catch him and his dad realises it’s Aaron there’s another twist a second werewolf across town is attacking people when they’re both captured and taken to Aaron’s home with his dad telling him that he was going to turn them in not being able to deal with two werewolves so Aaron does the only thing he can to stop his father from turning him in he bites him turning him into a werewolf as well. This is one of the few goosebumps books I decided to keep because i liked the werewolf books in the goosebumps book series.
This entire review has been hidden because of spoilers.
Profile Image for Lucinda Ahmed.
128 reviews3 followers
February 12, 2025
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" جريت علي أطرافي الأربعة...وسط هواء الليل البارد ! جريت غضبا .. جائعاً...أحتاج إلى شرب الدماء ..أبحث عن اللحم الطازج "
يذهب آرون مع أباه في رحلة صيفية طبيعية لحدا ما يتجول هو و أباه داخل الغابات بحثاً عن الرجل المستئذب للقبض عليه ، ليس إلا ، عطلة كانت طبيعية بناءاً علي أن أبيه صائد مستئذبين و لكنا ليست طبيعية علي ارون فتلك المرة الأولي التي يتجول مع أبيه في قلب الغابات بحثاً عن رجل مستئذب لا يعلم ارون أن كان للرجل الذئب وجود حقا أم أنه أحد الأساطير التي خلقت داخل عقل أحدي الجدات لأرعاب الأطفال و تسليتهم و لكن علي العكس ، أبوة متيقنا من وجود رجل مستذئب اليوم ....لقد نسيت ان اخبرك يا عزيزي أن اليوم هو يوم اكتمال القمر .
"الأغبياء و المجانين فقط هم الذين يدخلون هذة الغابة الآن !
لا أحد ينجو من الرجل الذئب "
Profile Image for Anish Nair.
52 reviews5 followers
January 12, 2021
I love goosebumps books. Ive been watching the tv show and reading the books since i was 11 but this one was a let down. Part 1 of the book is really suspenseful but the second part and the ending is 1 of the worst I've ever read. I well suggest that you should go for "welcome to camp slither" it was really good. But I'll have to say that the cover of this book is by far the scariest goosebumps book cover👌👌👌
Profile Image for Dakota Foote.
100 reviews1 follower
April 2, 2025
I wasn't excited to read the 3rd werewolf story in the series, especially with such a bad title, but hot damn, this was good! It has a compelling setup different from the others, doesn't hold back on the werewolf violence, and has a beautifully bleak ending. The two part structure worked well too. I'm honestly impressed this is so late in the series because Stine is starting to seem burnt out, and Series 2000 has been mostly mediocre.
Profile Image for Corantine.
6 reviews
August 16, 2025
Mon meilleur Chair de Poule !!! ✨️💕
Je l'ai lu d'une traite, à la tombée de la nuit. 🌙
L'histoire était très captivante, je n'arrêtais pas d'enchaîner les "aller encore un chapitre !". De plus, les chapitres sont assez court donc on ne voit vraiment pas le temps passées à la lecture de ce livre.
Je recommande vivement !!!

On rentre très vite dans l'histoire et un certain suspens nous tient captivé par l'histoire.
Profile Image for Alejandro Joseph.
450 reviews1 follower
December 27, 2023
Highest 9.5/10 I’ll ever give a book. Everything in this book was flawless and wasted no time jumping into action. Really dark as well *cough* human trafficking *cough*. Only nitpick is the ending, which comes a little quick and isn’t the most satisfying.
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258 reviews7 followers
October 20, 2025
La cosa più scioccante di 'sto scarabocchio è che un uomo viene letteralmente e platealmente rapito dal suo paese d'origine, e nessuno batte ciglio.

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289 reviews86 followers
April 20, 2020
Transfiguration
Animagus feature - book/series that includes shapeshifting
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6,638 reviews1 follower
February 14, 2021
This was fun, but the ending made me roll my eyes a bit.
Profile Image for Owen.
125 reviews1 follower
August 1, 2023
Great story lice the dad in this story
Recommend reading!!
Profile Image for 하영 .
35 reviews
December 14, 2024
It wasn't that great cuz i have read multiple better books than this one. I didn't expect this book to disappoint me, but here we are.
Profile Image for Zhanna Makievskaya.
8 reviews
January 7, 2013
This is one of my first read Goosebumps. What can I say? At the beginning it was kinda creepy and mysterious, but then it was getting more and more boring. Some moments even might seem disgusting. Yeah, I'm a big fan of horrors, but this story isn't very fascinating in its way. Yesterday I tried to read it one more time, however, having looked through some pages, I gave it up. They say, our mind's changeable, when we grow up our opinions change, but, unfortunately, that doesn't concern my attitude to this book.
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