Revenge of the Body Squeezers

Give Yourself Goosebumps Special Edition #6

by R.L. Stine

Jack Archer, hero of Invasion of the Body Squeezers, is back in a nonstop chiller about blue aliens and their dreaded "body squeezer" device. The big squeeze scrunches a person down to tennis-ball size and this time you're part of the action...

Genres: Horror, Gamebooks, Childrens, Fiction, Choose Your Own Adventure

144 pages, Paperback

First published June 1, 1999

About the author

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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Reviews

[Pulp_Fiction_Books · Rating 4 out of 5]

A lot of weak endings but still fun. I like how there were lots of side quests that would still lead you back on the main path.

[Alejandro Joseph · Rating 5 out of 5]

Finishing the year strong with the final Give Yourself Goosebumps book I had yet to read, Invasion of the Body Squeezers Part III (because that is, indeed, what this is) is a relatively direct sequel to the prior two/kind of one entr(ies/y). However, this is the same thing as Return to Terror Tower: a GYG sequel. So… I didn’t know how this’d fair up against its predecessors… but I am happy to report this was the best book in the Squeezers series. The thing I was immediately gracious for with this book was the direct continuation of two-parter (though with a continuity issue I’ll bring up later) as well as the juicy lore additives that were sprinkled throughout. Here’s what we learn—mostly putting this here for reference: Mr. Fleshman is actually named Hurth, and he has two kids who we meet in this book, one of them being a twist villain—our ‘friend’ Maddy—and John Field, a radio host/DJ. There are blue body squeezers which can speak English, and they come from the same planet (I think?), of which was called Frith. Squeezers refer to themselves as “Frithers,” usually followed by a string of numbers. The planet Frith is covered in red dust (like Mars) and has gigantic blue trees, plus buildings made of glass.. bizarre to say the least. The Squeezers also have guns now, plus spaceships and the ability to time travel. I’m not making this shit up. Also there’s a famous horror writer on Frith named R.L. Frither 2000… well, that’s something. From some of these drops, you must garner the tone of this book is pretty weird, right? That’s another thing this book nailed: tone. It’s a huge switch from Stine’s duology (I say that since he definitely didn’t write the Give Yourself books), and in a good direction; this one is mostly hilarity based with some of the cheesiest writing bits I’ve scene (anti-racism jokes [yes, there’s more than one, and yes, I’m serious], fun-bad dialogue, and so on), and it gives this book a “so bad it’s good/fun bad” feel that I ate up. There’s some mildly more serious choice making here in contrast which I found odd but neat, like the biggest choice in the book early on where you either go to save your friends or you save L.A. from being squeeze bombed, which is legitimately kinda hard for once. I already like aliens, which helps my enjoyment here lol, so nuff said there. And all-in-all, the tone, batshit plot, fruitful lore, alien biases, and entertainment value at an all-time high for this series made this deadass one of the ironically best books from this fifty book run. I can’t even tell you how many times this book fried me with its stupid writing. But anywho.. oh… negatives. I must admit two faults of this book (and a nitpick too small to do any damage): there’s 7 or so, more or less, bad endings. They’re not all-time awful like the shit ending in Lost in Stinkeye Swamp or the ape-rape one from Shop Till You Drop, but they’re still pretty bad. And, there’s a bit continuity error in this book: this book takes place on New Year’s Eve/Day, however, it takes place only moments after Invasion pt. 2, which, if you don’t recall, takes place in the Summer season. Doesn’t make sense? Yeah, it doesn’t. It’s kinda glaring… oh, and a nitpick I must mention is that there is a scene where the main character (the reader) claims to be the SON of Mr. Fleshman… which is a blatant fallacy of this series being gender neutral. I don’t care much but it’s interesting that this is (I believe) the only instance of this, unless I’m wrong. Just a nitpick though; more like a damn-that’s-weird fact. Overall… drum roll please… 9.5/10. I can forgive the bad endings and the progressional complication (Summer-to-New Year’s Eve when that can’t even work), but not enough for perfection. Still… one of the best Give Yourself Goosebumps books, for its tone and entertainment value. And with that, farewell to this series and 2025. Fuck.

[Brandon · Rating 3 out of 5]

Revenge of the body squeezers is a sequel to Invasion Of The Body Squeezers Part one and two of the Goosebumps series 2000 series.I picked this book,because i flipped through this one a few years ago and saw it took place right before New years.The story starts with you going to your friend Jack's house.As you approach,Jack and his sister Billie run around the corner of the house.You go over and see a blue alien heading towards you.You get your first choice and it's if you want to just stand there instead of running inside the house.I chose to of course to run inside the house.You go inside and Jack explains the events of the first two books.He tells you that basically there is blue aliens taking over LA.He also explains about Mr.Fleshman,a character from the previous books.You quickly realize you hear something coming from the back door and it's the blue alien.He reaches in his mouth and pulls put a gun and shoots out this beam and it squeezes Jack and Billie into little black orbs.You escape after the alien's gun jams.The alien grabs the two orbs and heads to the woods so you follow him to his ship.You spy on him as he enters his spaceship and overhear him talking to another alien.He and his fellow aliens are planning on setting off a squeeze bomb somewhere in LA.You have your first actual choice and it's if you go save Jack and Billie,or save everyone.I chose to help save everyone so this leads to a girl named Mandy showing up.We have a choice to go to Mr.Fleshmans house,go to a parade or go to the Hollywood Walk Of fame to try and find the squeeze bomb.I'm pretty sure I went to Fleshmans house and that's where you find photos,and you run into his guard robot,because Mr.Fleshman worked as a special effects person for movies.This leads you to a choice agian of the rose bowl parade,Hollywood walk of fame and The Hollywood Bowl.If you go to The Hollywood Bowl yo run into a rock concert looking for the bomb.I liked that storyline,it was the first one I completed and really found some of the twists pretty fun.The Hollywood one leads you to digging up Lenard Nemoys star,because of a picture you found.This one also leads to a stotyline where a certian character is something else,with some fun body horror.At the parade you try to find the float that has the squeeze bomb.This storyline I think leads you to the same kinda storyline with that character i mentioned.I said i think,because i got lost quite a few times trying to complete this book.If you go on the ship you end up getting trapped inside and you shoot at the aliens with guns you find.You Can go to their home planet,have a gun fight with them and different things like that.I feel like this storyline could've been way better.Overall Revenge Of The Body Squeezers was an Ok book.I felt like this book was pretty difficult to find all of the endings.I had a really hard time finding all three aliens instead of just the two.The spaceship storyline could've been alot better.I did like the different alien races and the body horror though.There is fingers being bitten off and a brain inside a box.I also really liked the R.L.Stine refrence in the book.I give Revenge Of The Body Squeezers a three out of five stars.

[Griffin C. · Rating 5 out of 5]

The side quests and both storylines are incredibly fun. Far better than the books it is a sequel to. 10/10

[Lucan B · Rating 4 out of 5]

This book was… interesting. That’s all I have to say about it. It’s a weird book with weird endings. Here are my reviews on the endings:

Ending #84: Quickest way to get an ending.
Ending #18: Are all aliens bad jugglers?
Ending #23: Give me a gory ending without giving me a gory ending.
Ending #105: Why do the aliens have a ginormous microwave oven? That’s just super random. Also, what does “Your goose is cooked” mean? I don’t want to eat no geese.
Ending #60: Those poor celebrities. Getting hit with tennis rackets.
Ending #34: Yes, nothing says god bless America like Jimi Hendrix playing The Star-Spangled Banner: Rock Edition.
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[Brad · Rating 4 out of 5]

My first time reading GYG (or any "twist-a-plot" type book) in something like 27 years. I probably only ever read 1 or 2 of the GYG back in the day.

This book was good, but finishing it completely was a chore. I had to keep noted and reread some pages multiple times. It was fun but also complicated at the same time. I had hoped to collect all 50 GYG but honestly, I don't know that I have the patience to read them all.

Overall this book was an enjoyable experience, but I don't expect to be reading the book again.

[H.A. · Rating 3 out of 5]

In this one, I had to choose between saving my friends and saving myself. I had like 10 pages to get attached to my ‘friends’. Fuck those guys. I’m saving myself.

[fanboyriot · Rating 5 out of 5]

The endings to this book were all pretty funny.

[Gouri · Rating 3 out of 5]

I borrowed it from the library when I was eight or something.It was cool..like any other Goosebumps book!

[YUVRAJ]

a very good book

[jassymc · Rating 2 out of 5]

i always died with my decisions so i cheated every time