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The Nightmare Room #5
Presagio di morte
Quello che sta filando come una freccia è Alex Smith. Sta andando a casa per controllare il suo diario. Perché? Perché sebbene non abbia scritto una sola parola su quelle pagine, ieri ha visto apparire inspiegabilmente delle righe che predicevano il futuro. Non vede l'ora di riaprirlo per sapere se scoprirà qualcosa di nuovo. Purtroppo non si rende conto di quanto possa essere pericoloso. Età di lettura: da 9 anni.
143 pages, Paperback
First published January 1, 2000
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R.L. Stine
1,679 books18.6k followersRobert 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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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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March 13, 2023
This is easily one of my favorite Nightmare Room books. The only thing I didn't like about it was the abrupt ending and final chapter which didn't make much sense.
Solid 4 stars for this one.
Solid 4 stars for this one.
October 22, 2008
This book is about a boy who finds a diary, and not just any kind. It was a special kind. He had just moved to a new house with his mom and went up to his new room. Went he went up there, there was only a white desk and nothing else. He open the drawer and the only thing inside was a diary.
He opens up the diary and there was nothing in the diary. Then he put the diary to the side. He got everything together in his room a week past and it was two days before school started. Then, he looked in the diary and there was still nothing in it. So he decided to write in it and use it as its own. It was the first morning of school and he wrote that in the diary before he left. As he walked to school, he met up with his friend and hung out all day. His friend went home with him that day. They played basketball until his friend's mom came to pick him up.
He went upstairs to write into his diary what he had done that day. When he looked into it, it said something else than what he wrote in the morning. It was as someone erased what he wrote and wrote something else. The writing said "today Timmy had gone on the roof, throwing his hat down to and was about to jump for dare." So, he put the diary aside and went to bed.
The next day of school, it was at lunch time when all the kids were outside. A lot of them were yelling and shouting, so James went to go see what was happening. He went to go ask his friend and he pointed at the top of the school roof. James looked up and was scared, but not about what was happening, but about what was written in the diary last night. Timmy, his friend, was on top of the roof about to jump for dare, like what said in the diary.
After school, he went home and looked at his diary, every page was blank. And if you want to know what happens next, you have to read the book.
He opens up the diary and there was nothing in the diary. Then he put the diary to the side. He got everything together in his room a week past and it was two days before school started. Then, he looked in the diary and there was still nothing in it. So he decided to write in it and use it as its own. It was the first morning of school and he wrote that in the diary before he left. As he walked to school, he met up with his friend and hung out all day. His friend went home with him that day. They played basketball until his friend's mom came to pick him up.
He went upstairs to write into his diary what he had done that day. When he looked into it, it said something else than what he wrote in the morning. It was as someone erased what he wrote and wrote something else. The writing said "today Timmy had gone on the roof, throwing his hat down to and was about to jump for dare." So, he put the diary aside and went to bed.
The next day of school, it was at lunch time when all the kids were outside. A lot of them were yelling and shouting, so James went to go see what was happening. He went to go ask his friend and he pointed at the top of the school roof. James looked up and was scared, but not about what was happening, but about what was written in the diary last night. Timmy, his friend, was on top of the roof about to jump for dare, like what said in the diary.
After school, he went home and looked at his diary, every page was blank. And if you want to know what happens next, you have to read the book.
July 5, 2016
Disappointing ending. I had great expectations for this one because I thought the concept was great. A diary that predicts the future and then one day it predicts your own death. Naturally, you'll try to avoid it as much as you can but what if you can't?
Stine's books oftend end with an open ending and I hate open endings.
Stine's books oftend end with an open ending and I hate open endings.
October 5, 2025
I just finished Dear Diary,I'm Dead from the Nightmare Room series.I was pretty excited to read this one,even though I kept putting it off.I heard from a certain Youtuber that this was his favorite or close to it.The Story follows this kid named Alex.The very beginning of this book shows Alex sharing a story about werewolves.The teacher likes it,but says he needs more details,and tells him he should keep a diary around to write in,because apparently that was the kind of format he used This girl named Tessa also asks can she use a diary.He is going down the hallway when Tessa stops him.She tells him he has to pay up.It turns out Alex made a bet about getting an a on A test,but he got a B plus instead.He does win a bet though,because he bet his two friends and band mates Chip and Shawn that Tessa would also want to use a diary.Alex loves making bets,but can never seem to get one over on Tessa.He ends up making a really big bet for 100 dollars,that his diary will be way more exciting then hers.He gets home and his parents announce they got him something,it's a new dresser.He goes to look inside and finds an old diary.He thinks about all of the things he's going to write,but gets called to dinner.He eats and comes back only to discover the diary has an entry in it.Inside it says there will be a test,so Alex studies and passes and makes bets about that.The diary tells him all kinds of stuff,like the basketball going into overtime,a substitute teacher giving a surprise test.Everything is going good for Alex.He's making money,except for one time where he purposely loses the bet to gain the other kids trust.The diary seems to be a good thing to have around until the entries start getting pretty crazy.The first one says Alex gets hit by a car,so no matter how he tries to stop it it happens,there is a kid that looses his kitten and Alex runs into the street for it.He survives it though,only for the next entry to tell him he flaps his arms like a bird and falls off a roof.He also has one where he steals a bus full of kids.The diary seems to making bad things happen.I'll admit I was a little torn on this book.The first fifty or so pages I wasn't super interested in.The second half was pretty intense.Him stealing a bus full of kids was wild.The ending however was something I didn't love.It wasn't exactly the type of ending I hated,but it was in that category.This book did have me thinking though,so props for that.I think I'm going to give Dear Diary,I'm Dead a three out of five stars.
September 28, 2016
Meh...
For some reason, even though they're not that good, I can't stop reading R.L. Stine books!
So, this addition to the Nightmare Room is about a boy named Alex who loves betting. He finds a black leather diary, which somehow tells him the events of tomorrow. However, things start to go bad when the diary prophecies bad things...
I'm giving this 3.5 because of the ending, which was more disturbing than the others.
For some reason, even though they're not that good, I can't stop reading R.L. Stine books!
So, this addition to the Nightmare Room is about a boy named Alex who loves betting. He finds a black leather diary, which somehow tells him the events of tomorrow. However, things start to go bad when the diary prophecies bad things...
I'm giving this 3.5 because of the ending, which was more disturbing than the others.
September 24, 2020
Un diario que predice hechos futuros. No siempre lo que se quiere se consigue de buen modo, a veces se arriesga demasiado. Estás dispuesto a correr los riegos y horrores que puede llevar saber el futuro?
December 16, 2016
به نظرم "عالی" شروع شد و "بسیار ضعیف" تموم شد :)
January 23, 2025
Nel riprendere a leggere Stine dopo anni e anni, mi aspettavo soprattutto una cosa: storie della preadolescenza con elementi fantastici che più che horror sono una versione svergognata delle puntate di Ai Confini della Realtà con i loro colpi di scena finali memorabili. Non a caso di molte storie ricordo soprattutto i colpi di scena.
Presagio di morte mi ha dato di più.
Come organizzazione narrativa, si può dividere il libro in tre sezioni, ciascuna autonoma e che si trasforma nella successiva (o termina) con un colpo di scena alla Stine.
Il primo capitoletto è una di quelle storie che non vedrei male in un'antologia di racconti in pillole. Nel complesso serve solo come giustificazione per la scelta del protagonista del libro di scrivere un diario in competizione con una sua compagna di classe, però il finale mi è piaciuto e lo stile "brutto" ha una sua motivazione che mi ha portato ad ammettere di aver inizialmente sottovalutato Stine.
Il "corpo" della storia è quello più standard e prevedibile. Il protagonista è un ragazzino che trova un diario che puntualmente gli fornisce un resoconto del giorno dopo e decide di sfruttarlo a suo vantaggio finendo però in una spirale di eventi sempre più preoccupanti. Mi sono ritrovato subito a mio agio nelle atmosfere scolastiche. Molte cose sono delineate giusto il necessario, come i compagni di scuola un po' stereotipati: l'amico esuberante, l'amico profondo, la tsundere, il bambino combina guai, ecc.
La storia non ci mette molto a diventare la classica vicenda della lotta contro il destino, con il protagonista che si chiede quanto sia libero di modificare il futuro. Non è nemmeno la prima storia di Stine che leggo con un "superpotere" che poi si rivela pericoloso.
Però... Lo dico dopo.
L'ultimo capitoletto, pur appoggiandosi al resto del libro, riesce ad essere quasi un'altra storia. La parte centrale per me si può chiudere anche con il penultimo capitolo ma Stine ovviamente ha voluto aggiungere altro. Qualcosa di molto weird e da ha! pensavi fosse finita, eh? ;-)
Questa volta non è stata la mia parte preferita. Non l'ho trovata brutta, anzi, però nemmeno brillante come altre.
Quello che mi ha portato a mettere really liked it come voto è stato il piccolo twist al tema uomo e libero arbitrio.
Alex, il protagonista, ha la strana passione di scommettere sempre con i compagni di scuola. In realtà pare proprio che sia uno dei principali passatempi degli studenti del suo istituto, lui però è sicuramente fra i più competitivi. Fin dall'inizio escogita spesso modi per vincere le scommesse, viene sempre battuto dalla tsundere Tessa ed i genitori lo rimproverano per questa sua scellerata gestione dei soldi.
Quando trova il diario magico che gli riassume il giorno dopo, con tanto di risultati esatti delle partite sportive scolastiche, non può che vederlo come il Sacro Graal degli scommettitori.
Lo usa a suo vantaggio, inizia ad accumulare soldi. Tutto bello finché non inizia a sospettare che il diario possa forzare gli eventi negativi, che oltre a predirli li fa proprio realizzare. Il desiderio di vincere le scommesse però non gli consentono di gettarlo subito via e la storia prende una piega sempre più brutta.
Quello che proprio non mi aspettavo da un libro di Stine era la critica sociale. In questo caso, almeno per un lettore adulto, è palese che tutta la storia sia una trasfigurazione fantastica dei problemi della ludopatia.
Alex dice chiaramente di odiare il diario ma di averne bisogno. Combatte contro il suo desiderio di continuare ad usarlo. Lo nasconde agli altri e diventa violento quando teme che possano prenderglielo. Si ritrova, fuori controllo, in situazioni sempre più vergognose. Non riesce a capire fino a che punto sia lui a compiere certe azioni e scarica la colpa sul diario che lo "controlla" pur continuando ad usarlo.
Non sarà una storia squallida e drammatica, non si supera mai un certo livello di disagio, però l'orrore non deriva solo dal diario stregato ma anche dalla dipendenza del protagonista per le scommesse e le due cose sono ben intrecciate.
Tanto di cappello, Stine.
L'unica nota negativa è il personaggio di Tessa. avrei preferito qualche pagina in più sul finale per rendere le sue ultime scene meno affrettate. Ad un certo punto sembra agire in modo strano e per me si poteva contestualizzare meglio la cosa in modo da avere anche un confronto con Alex sulla sua ludopatia.
Come nota finale della recensione voglio dire di aver trovato il titolo italiano molto più sensato di Dear Diary, I'm Dead. Devo però riconoscere che quello inglese sia più particolare anche se un po' mendace, salvo scoprire che è un problema di traduzione.
Presagio di morte mi ha dato di più.
Come organizzazione narrativa, si può dividere il libro in tre sezioni, ciascuna autonoma e che si trasforma nella successiva (o termina) con un colpo di scena alla Stine.
Il primo capitoletto è una di quelle storie che non vedrei male in un'antologia di racconti in pillole. Nel complesso serve solo come giustificazione per la scelta del protagonista del libro di scrivere un diario in competizione con una sua compagna di classe, però il finale mi è piaciuto e lo stile "brutto" ha una sua motivazione che mi ha portato ad ammettere di aver inizialmente sottovalutato Stine.
Il "corpo" della storia è quello più standard e prevedibile. Il protagonista è un ragazzino che trova un diario che puntualmente gli fornisce un resoconto del giorno dopo e decide di sfruttarlo a suo vantaggio finendo però in una spirale di eventi sempre più preoccupanti. Mi sono ritrovato subito a mio agio nelle atmosfere scolastiche. Molte cose sono delineate giusto il necessario, come i compagni di scuola un po' stereotipati: l'amico esuberante, l'amico profondo, la tsundere, il bambino combina guai, ecc.
La storia non ci mette molto a diventare la classica vicenda della lotta contro il destino, con il protagonista che si chiede quanto sia libero di modificare il futuro. Non è nemmeno la prima storia di Stine che leggo con un "superpotere" che poi si rivela pericoloso.
Però... Lo dico dopo.
L'ultimo capitoletto, pur appoggiandosi al resto del libro, riesce ad essere quasi un'altra storia. La parte centrale per me si può chiudere anche con il penultimo capitolo ma Stine ovviamente ha voluto aggiungere altro. Qualcosa di molto weird e da ha! pensavi fosse finita, eh? ;-)
Questa volta non è stata la mia parte preferita. Non l'ho trovata brutta, anzi, però nemmeno brillante come altre.
Quello che mi ha portato a mettere really liked it come voto è stato il piccolo twist al tema uomo e libero arbitrio.
Alex, il protagonista, ha la strana passione di scommettere sempre con i compagni di scuola. In realtà pare proprio che sia uno dei principali passatempi degli studenti del suo istituto, lui però è sicuramente fra i più competitivi. Fin dall'inizio escogita spesso modi per vincere le scommesse, viene sempre battuto dalla tsundere Tessa ed i genitori lo rimproverano per questa sua scellerata gestione dei soldi.
Quando trova il diario magico che gli riassume il giorno dopo, con tanto di risultati esatti delle partite sportive scolastiche, non può che vederlo come il Sacro Graal degli scommettitori.
Lo usa a suo vantaggio, inizia ad accumulare soldi. Tutto bello finché non inizia a sospettare che il diario possa forzare gli eventi negativi, che oltre a predirli li fa proprio realizzare. Il desiderio di vincere le scommesse però non gli consentono di gettarlo subito via e la storia prende una piega sempre più brutta.
Quello che proprio non mi aspettavo da un libro di Stine era la critica sociale. In questo caso, almeno per un lettore adulto, è palese che tutta la storia sia una trasfigurazione fantastica dei problemi della ludopatia.
Alex dice chiaramente di odiare il diario ma di averne bisogno. Combatte contro il suo desiderio di continuare ad usarlo. Lo nasconde agli altri e diventa violento quando teme che possano prenderglielo. Si ritrova, fuori controllo, in situazioni sempre più vergognose. Non riesce a capire fino a che punto sia lui a compiere certe azioni e scarica la colpa sul diario che lo "controlla" pur continuando ad usarlo.
Non sarà una storia squallida e drammatica, non si supera mai un certo livello di disagio, però l'orrore non deriva solo dal diario stregato ma anche dalla dipendenza del protagonista per le scommesse e le due cose sono ben intrecciate.
Tanto di cappello, Stine.
L'unica nota negativa è il personaggio di Tessa. avrei preferito qualche pagina in più sul finale per rendere le sue ultime scene meno affrettate. Ad un certo punto sembra agire in modo strano e per me si poteva contestualizzare meglio la cosa in modo da avere anche un confronto con Alex sulla sua ludopatia.
Come nota finale della recensione voglio dire di aver trovato il titolo italiano molto più sensato di Dear Diary, I'm Dead. Devo però riconoscere che quello inglese sia più particolare anche se un po' mendace, salvo scoprire che è un problema di traduzione.
December 31, 2020
Just an ordinary teenage drama with a dose of mystery and supernatural twists. Not particularly interesting or exciting, but short and enjoyable enough to pass the time. I would definitely recommend it to kids between 9 and 15, and for people that are older, it is highly unlikely that they would be enjoying it as much.
January 3, 2022
Middle school flashback
March 19, 2022
Nešto bolji od "Ne zaboravi me", kraj i dalje loš, ne jasan, ali barem je radnja zanimljvija.
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October 31, 2023Dear Diary I’m Dead
Alex and his friends go camping by themselves. (Alex’s friends are Sean and Chip). They walk for an hour but get lost trying to find the creek to set up their tent. They just decide to pitch the tent where they are. That’s when Alex feels like they’re being watched. Eventually, they decide to go to sleep. Alex gets the feeling again their being watched. Then the howls start. They hope it’s dogs but they know better. It’s wolves. Then they hear the wolves approach and screen. Forest patrol shows up and asks are they ok. They tell them that the woods aren’t safe and they should be outta there in the morning. Alex doesn’t think they look like Forstt Patrol”. The howls continue. The next morning they see footprints where the “Forest Patrol” had come. Only they’re not human footprints. They’re wolf prints.
We find out this is a story, Alex made up to tell his class. They never even went camping. His teacher says it’s an excellent story. The best she’s heard all week and gives him a B plus. She says she needs to work on character development, plot, and detail (of the woods). But she compliments him on writing the story as a diary entry. She suggests he keep a real diary and hand it in at the end of the year for extra credit. Tess is happy to remind him after class that he owes her five dollars. (He bet her he’d make an A). He only has three but he gets the money from his friends. He also bet them a dollar shed want to write a diary after finding out the teacher told him to write one. He gets an idea and makes another bet with her.
During their band practice, Alex tells his friends he made a bet with Tess for 100.00. He bet that his diary will be more exciting than hers. Tessa is so boring it’ll be easy. She spends all her time on homework and projects. His friends bet five dollars against him. When mom gets home she tells Alex she has a surprise for him. He tries to make bets with her but she tells him to stop making bets. The surprise is an antique desk. Alex isn’t excited but thanks her anyway. He likes the chair better. It’s red and chrome and titles back. He examines the desk and finds a small, black, book. (a diary).
Al the pages are blank. He decides to use it to do his assignment. He’ll start by doing some descriptions of himself and his friends. After dinner when he there’s an entry in his handwriting for the following day that says It talks about him and Tessa talking about the diary war and his teacher springing a surprise test on them. Alex then takes out his book and studies his geography book. The next day it happens just like the diary said. Tessa asks about the diary test. He suggests they share diaries. She turns it down. He asks Tessa if she’s read Chapter 8 but she says she hasn’t. Mrs. Hawk does give the surprise test. So he beats Tessa five dollars that he aced the test. Tessa sees Alex’s smile and says no bet.
Alex rushes home and on the way, he saves a little boy's cat. He eagerly checks the diary to see if there’s another entry. There’s nothing there for the next day. There’s an entry tho after dinner. It says their team will win in over time and it gives the score of the game. Tessa comes by and wants to know how he knew about the test. He tells her he just had a hunch. But she accuses him of cheating and asks if Mrs. Hawk let him know about the test in advance. He says he just had a hunch. Then she gets to why she *really* came there. She wants to join the band. He says he’ll talk to the guys about it, they’ll take a vote, and let her know. Later that night he dreams he’s looking at the diary and the pages are all filled. On the last page is the word DEAD. There’s thunder and lightning heard in the background. He makes a bet that the game will go into over time and it does. He wins fifty dollars. But he loses when he gives the wrong final score (on purpose so they won’t catch on) and loses forty. Alex’s mom and dad say they heard people betted on the game. Alex says that’s dumb and he bets them ten dollars they’ll get caught. The next diary says Tessa will join the band. Alex let her in because she has a big garage and because her uncle says he’ll let them play at a restaurant downtown and he’ll pay them. It says the algebra teacher will be out but the test they're supposed to have is still on. Tessa calls and asks if she can be in the band and Alex says yes. She says her uncle has a place for them to rehearse and he might can get them a gig in his restaurant. She invites him to come by but Alex says he has to study. She tells him that he shouldn’t bother. She heard the teacher will be out of school and she’s been calling telling people not to bother studying. Alex reads the next entry. It says he’ll get hit by a car.
Determined not to make the prediction come true, Alex fakes being sick the next morning. If he stays home he can’t get hit. His mom says okay, so he’s in the clear. But then Alex calls and reminds him they are supposed to play in the lunchroom that day and then there’s the test. So he just vows to be careful. When he gets to school, Chip and Sean aren’t happy about Tessa being in the band. They don’t care about what she promised them. Alex says it’ll all work out and rushes off to his Algebra test. The diary is right and ther’s a test. Tessa is embarrassed. Alex couldn’t be more happy and finishes early. Tessa isn’t good! She’s horrible and sounds like an animal in pain. The kids beg her to stop. Some even run out the room. This just makes Chip and Sean angrier but Tessa thinks she did a good job. Alex wonders why the diary didn’t tell him Tessa was horrible. Then he worries about what the diary said about him getting hit.
On the way home, Alex and his friends agree to practice. The little boy's kitten comes running out in the street again and Alex rushes out to get it and gets hit. (His name is Billy). The woman is frantic and asks and asks if she can do anything. Alex accidently tells it’s okay. He knew it was going to get hit today. The doctor checks him out and says he’s okay. Alex feels bad he can’t get out of school and not making a bet with Chip and Shean. Tessa teases him he did it to make his diary more interesting.
The next entry talks about the Junior Olympics. It talks about how windy and muddy it is. It talks about how the blue team won mostly all the events and how the seventh graders got to watch. It talks about how Tessa is accusing him of doing crazy things to make his diary more interesting. It says he’s going to climb up on the school roof and flap his arms like a bird. At the Olympics, he makes thirty-five dollars. Alex heads home and has a thought what if the book isn’t just predicting the future? What if it’s making these events happen? Then he hears screams. Billy says his new Raiders cap has blown up on the roof of the school. (I would NOT trust this kid. He’s the DEVIL). He keeps carrying on and people are egging him on. (RUN ALEX JUST RUN TAKE OFF). But Alex caves to the pressure. Alex says the hat dangling off the roof and slipping little by little inch by inche he grabs the hat. He stand there looking at the crowd and makes a bet with them that he’ll jump. Alex’s shoe gets caught and all of a sudden he starts to fall off the roof. The art teacher catches him. Billy is grinning his behind off. It’s the second time he almost got him killed. Alex wonders if he should keep the diary or just throw it away. But he’s addicted to it so ..When he gets home the diary is gone.
He sees tho that Chip and Sean have it and are threatens g to read it. But he gets it away from them. His friends want to hang. He says they’ll have to count him out. He has to be with his parents. They give him a look like they know he’s lying. Later, Alex reads the day's entry. It’s about his team Then it talks about Sean crashing into a truck and breaking his legs. The next day, Alex wins forty dollars from the game. He tries to get Sean to walk home with him, but he says it’s about to rain and he’s brought his bike. So, Alex decides to walk home with him to make sure he doesn’t have an accident. He’s counting his money and thinking if he earns some more he’ll have enough for a new guitar. When he looks up Sean is gone. He rushes out of the game and sees Sean. He tries to get his attention but he doesn’t hear him. So, he runs after him,. He finally hears him and turns around. He doesn’t see the large moving van coming and the truck hits him and tosses him into the air. Then he falls. Tessa is there. HMMM, Why is she always where these accidents are. She tells him to go call nine one one. Alex knows he has to get rid of the diary.
When Alex gets home he tells himself he won’t read another entry. But the pull is too strong and again he starts to read it but Tessa is there behind him. Tessa questions Alex why he jumped off the roof. Alex wants to know why she’s spying but she says its because they’re friends. They tehn start talking about band practice. After she leaves, he reads the next entry. It’s about Alex driving the school bus across town. Alex just laughs at this. His mom is going to pick him up the next day. Almost immediately his mom tells him she can’t pick him up the next day. He’ll have to ride the school bus. Alex does take the bus on a wild ride and crashes into a tree.
Tessa again accuses him of doing all this because of the diary. This time Alex takes the diary and throws it in the trash can. He hears noises outside but sees nothing. That night he has a dream he’s on a puffy white cloud and then it pops and he wakes up. He has a relapse and goes outside to find the diary. He looks for the diary but it’s gone. It becomes VERY clear who has the diary the next day. Alex hears Tessa make a beat with some girls there will be a locker inspection. Then she tells Alex they’re having lunch. “A little birdie told her”. Tessa comes by later with some songs they can try. During practice, Alex says he left the guitar he wanted to bring and says he’ll go get it. All the while he’s planning to go to Tessa and gets his diary back. It’s lightning and thundering hard by this time. He sees it and steals it back. He can’t resist seeing it and sees one word on the page DEAD.
But Alex thinks since Tessa stole the diary it must mean she’s going to die. Alex knows he has to save her. A tree branch hits the garage. Alex sees Tessa holding the microphone in the window and knows she’s going to be hit by lightning. Alex yells at Tessa to drop the microphone. Then he dives for it and knocks it out her hand. He sees a blinding white flash and there’s a burn and sizzling. Alex is hit by lightning. When he awakens he’s in his bedroom. There are some men carrying a desk into his room. Then the phone rings and his mother leaves the room. He starts to examine the desk and then finds the diary. There’s an entry. It’s about the diary war and he tells her they should share their diaries. Tessa says no way. Then it talks about their teacher giving them a test on chapter right. He decides to study chapter eight.
My Thoughts
I would stay FAR AWAY from both that little kid and Tessa because everywhere they are tragedy is. I would *Not* be surprised if either of them had planted that diary in that desk. Do not ask me how but.. YEEEAH. Now the end was confusing. Did Alex die? Did time reset? WTH happened? I’m lost. On this one I can’t even make a guess. Other than that the story was good. I wish I had one of these diaries. Just not with it predicting bad stuff and then I was thinking did we need learn from Harry Potter not to trust strange, black, diaries just randomly left for people to find because they might CONTROL you? Really Ale? I KNOOOOW you’ve watched The Chamber of Secrets. Did we not learn from Ginny?
Rating: 7
Alex and his friends go camping by themselves. (Alex’s friends are Sean and Chip). They walk for an hour but get lost trying to find the creek to set up their tent. They just decide to pitch the tent where they are. That’s when Alex feels like they’re being watched. Eventually, they decide to go to sleep. Alex gets the feeling again their being watched. Then the howls start. They hope it’s dogs but they know better. It’s wolves. Then they hear the wolves approach and screen. Forest patrol shows up and asks are they ok. They tell them that the woods aren’t safe and they should be outta there in the morning. Alex doesn’t think they look like Forstt Patrol”. The howls continue. The next morning they see footprints where the “Forest Patrol” had come. Only they’re not human footprints. They’re wolf prints.
We find out this is a story, Alex made up to tell his class. They never even went camping. His teacher says it’s an excellent story. The best she’s heard all week and gives him a B plus. She says she needs to work on character development, plot, and detail (of the woods). But she compliments him on writing the story as a diary entry. She suggests he keep a real diary and hand it in at the end of the year for extra credit. Tess is happy to remind him after class that he owes her five dollars. (He bet her he’d make an A). He only has three but he gets the money from his friends. He also bet them a dollar shed want to write a diary after finding out the teacher told him to write one. He gets an idea and makes another bet with her.
During their band practice, Alex tells his friends he made a bet with Tess for 100.00. He bet that his diary will be more exciting than hers. Tessa is so boring it’ll be easy. She spends all her time on homework and projects. His friends bet five dollars against him. When mom gets home she tells Alex she has a surprise for him. He tries to make bets with her but she tells him to stop making bets. The surprise is an antique desk. Alex isn’t excited but thanks her anyway. He likes the chair better. It’s red and chrome and titles back. He examines the desk and finds a small, black, book. (a diary).
Al the pages are blank. He decides to use it to do his assignment. He’ll start by doing some descriptions of himself and his friends. After dinner when he there’s an entry in his handwriting for the following day that says It talks about him and Tessa talking about the diary war and his teacher springing a surprise test on them. Alex then takes out his book and studies his geography book. The next day it happens just like the diary said. Tessa asks about the diary test. He suggests they share diaries. She turns it down. He asks Tessa if she’s read Chapter 8 but she says she hasn’t. Mrs. Hawk does give the surprise test. So he beats Tessa five dollars that he aced the test. Tessa sees Alex’s smile and says no bet.
Alex rushes home and on the way, he saves a little boy's cat. He eagerly checks the diary to see if there’s another entry. There’s nothing there for the next day. There’s an entry tho after dinner. It says their team will win in over time and it gives the score of the game. Tessa comes by and wants to know how he knew about the test. He tells her he just had a hunch. But she accuses him of cheating and asks if Mrs. Hawk let him know about the test in advance. He says he just had a hunch. Then she gets to why she *really* came there. She wants to join the band. He says he’ll talk to the guys about it, they’ll take a vote, and let her know. Later that night he dreams he’s looking at the diary and the pages are all filled. On the last page is the word DEAD. There’s thunder and lightning heard in the background. He makes a bet that the game will go into over time and it does. He wins fifty dollars. But he loses when he gives the wrong final score (on purpose so they won’t catch on) and loses forty. Alex’s mom and dad say they heard people betted on the game. Alex says that’s dumb and he bets them ten dollars they’ll get caught. The next diary says Tessa will join the band. Alex let her in because she has a big garage and because her uncle says he’ll let them play at a restaurant downtown and he’ll pay them. It says the algebra teacher will be out but the test they're supposed to have is still on. Tessa calls and asks if she can be in the band and Alex says yes. She says her uncle has a place for them to rehearse and he might can get them a gig in his restaurant. She invites him to come by but Alex says he has to study. She tells him that he shouldn’t bother. She heard the teacher will be out of school and she’s been calling telling people not to bother studying. Alex reads the next entry. It says he’ll get hit by a car.
Determined not to make the prediction come true, Alex fakes being sick the next morning. If he stays home he can’t get hit. His mom says okay, so he’s in the clear. But then Alex calls and reminds him they are supposed to play in the lunchroom that day and then there’s the test. So he just vows to be careful. When he gets to school, Chip and Sean aren’t happy about Tessa being in the band. They don’t care about what she promised them. Alex says it’ll all work out and rushes off to his Algebra test. The diary is right and ther’s a test. Tessa is embarrassed. Alex couldn’t be more happy and finishes early. Tessa isn’t good! She’s horrible and sounds like an animal in pain. The kids beg her to stop. Some even run out the room. This just makes Chip and Sean angrier but Tessa thinks she did a good job. Alex wonders why the diary didn’t tell him Tessa was horrible. Then he worries about what the diary said about him getting hit.
On the way home, Alex and his friends agree to practice. The little boy's kitten comes running out in the street again and Alex rushes out to get it and gets hit. (His name is Billy). The woman is frantic and asks and asks if she can do anything. Alex accidently tells it’s okay. He knew it was going to get hit today. The doctor checks him out and says he’s okay. Alex feels bad he can’t get out of school and not making a bet with Chip and Shean. Tessa teases him he did it to make his diary more interesting.
The next entry talks about the Junior Olympics. It talks about how windy and muddy it is. It talks about how the blue team won mostly all the events and how the seventh graders got to watch. It talks about how Tessa is accusing him of doing crazy things to make his diary more interesting. It says he’s going to climb up on the school roof and flap his arms like a bird. At the Olympics, he makes thirty-five dollars. Alex heads home and has a thought what if the book isn’t just predicting the future? What if it’s making these events happen? Then he hears screams. Billy says his new Raiders cap has blown up on the roof of the school. (I would NOT trust this kid. He’s the DEVIL). He keeps carrying on and people are egging him on. (RUN ALEX JUST RUN TAKE OFF). But Alex caves to the pressure. Alex says the hat dangling off the roof and slipping little by little inch by inche he grabs the hat. He stand there looking at the crowd and makes a bet with them that he’ll jump. Alex’s shoe gets caught and all of a sudden he starts to fall off the roof. The art teacher catches him. Billy is grinning his behind off. It’s the second time he almost got him killed. Alex wonders if he should keep the diary or just throw it away. But he’s addicted to it so ..When he gets home the diary is gone.
He sees tho that Chip and Sean have it and are threatens g to read it. But he gets it away from them. His friends want to hang. He says they’ll have to count him out. He has to be with his parents. They give him a look like they know he’s lying. Later, Alex reads the day's entry. It’s about his team Then it talks about Sean crashing into a truck and breaking his legs. The next day, Alex wins forty dollars from the game. He tries to get Sean to walk home with him, but he says it’s about to rain and he’s brought his bike. So, Alex decides to walk home with him to make sure he doesn’t have an accident. He’s counting his money and thinking if he earns some more he’ll have enough for a new guitar. When he looks up Sean is gone. He rushes out of the game and sees Sean. He tries to get his attention but he doesn’t hear him. So, he runs after him,. He finally hears him and turns around. He doesn’t see the large moving van coming and the truck hits him and tosses him into the air. Then he falls. Tessa is there. HMMM, Why is she always where these accidents are. She tells him to go call nine one one. Alex knows he has to get rid of the diary.
When Alex gets home he tells himself he won’t read another entry. But the pull is too strong and again he starts to read it but Tessa is there behind him. Tessa questions Alex why he jumped off the roof. Alex wants to know why she’s spying but she says its because they’re friends. They tehn start talking about band practice. After she leaves, he reads the next entry. It’s about Alex driving the school bus across town. Alex just laughs at this. His mom is going to pick him up the next day. Almost immediately his mom tells him she can’t pick him up the next day. He’ll have to ride the school bus. Alex does take the bus on a wild ride and crashes into a tree.
Tessa again accuses him of doing all this because of the diary. This time Alex takes the diary and throws it in the trash can. He hears noises outside but sees nothing. That night he has a dream he’s on a puffy white cloud and then it pops and he wakes up. He has a relapse and goes outside to find the diary. He looks for the diary but it’s gone. It becomes VERY clear who has the diary the next day. Alex hears Tessa make a beat with some girls there will be a locker inspection. Then she tells Alex they’re having lunch. “A little birdie told her”. Tessa comes by later with some songs they can try. During practice, Alex says he left the guitar he wanted to bring and says he’ll go get it. All the while he’s planning to go to Tessa and gets his diary back. It’s lightning and thundering hard by this time. He sees it and steals it back. He can’t resist seeing it and sees one word on the page DEAD.
But Alex thinks since Tessa stole the diary it must mean she’s going to die. Alex knows he has to save her. A tree branch hits the garage. Alex sees Tessa holding the microphone in the window and knows she’s going to be hit by lightning. Alex yells at Tessa to drop the microphone. Then he dives for it and knocks it out her hand. He sees a blinding white flash and there’s a burn and sizzling. Alex is hit by lightning. When he awakens he’s in his bedroom. There are some men carrying a desk into his room. Then the phone rings and his mother leaves the room. He starts to examine the desk and then finds the diary. There’s an entry. It’s about the diary war and he tells her they should share their diaries. Tessa says no way. Then it talks about their teacher giving them a test on chapter right. He decides to study chapter eight.
My Thoughts
I would stay FAR AWAY from both that little kid and Tessa because everywhere they are tragedy is. I would *Not* be surprised if either of them had planted that diary in that desk. Do not ask me how but.. YEEEAH. Now the end was confusing. Did Alex die? Did time reset? WTH happened? I’m lost. On this one I can’t even make a guess. Other than that the story was good. I wish I had one of these diaries. Just not with it predicting bad stuff and then I was thinking did we need learn from Harry Potter not to trust strange, black, diaries just randomly left for people to find because they might CONTROL you? Really Ale? I KNOOOOW you’ve watched The Chamber of Secrets. Did we not learn from Ginny?
Rating: 7
This entire review has been hidden because of spoilers.
April 30, 2014
That's Alex Smith rushing past you, hurrying home to check out his journal. Why? Because Alex has never written a word in his journal, but yesterday, a mysterious entry appeared in the book - one that told Alex about the future. Alex can't wait to read the journal tonight to find out if there's anything new inside. Too bad he doesn't realize that by opening that book, he's opening the door to..."The Nightmare Room"
April 15, 2018
The first book of R.L stine i read was Dead Diary, I'm dead. It has a thrilling story though less of horror than the other books in the nightmare room volume. Nevertheless you won't get away without getting chills down your spine.The best part of this book is the concept of the diary which could predict future and one of these days Alex reads the entry which is the title of the book itself.
January 19, 2013
Although it's a story that has been done before, there are a few surprises here and there. I liked the unique ending although it doesn't quite make sense.
January 13, 2023
Wetten sind dein Leben,
aber leider verlierst du immer,
bis du ein geheimnisvolles Buch findest, welches dir die Zukunft voraussagt,
nur dieses Buch ist böse…
Zum Inhalt:
Für den 12-jährigen Alex vergeht kaum ein Tag ohne eine neue Geldwette. Als er aber eine 100-Dollar-Wette mit Tessa um das bessere Tagebuchprojekt für den Englischunterricht abschließt, entwickelt sein Tagebuch ein ungewöhnliches Eigenleben: Abend für Abend erscheinen, wie von Geisterhand geschrieben, Eintragungen über den nächsten Tag. Unheimlich, schauerlich, unvorstellbar - das Grauen erreicht eine neue Dimension.
Cover:
Das Cover gefällt mir ganz gut und orientiert sich meiner Meinung nach recht passend an dem klassischen Gestaltungsstil, wie man ihn von den Büchern von R.L. Stine gewöhnt ist. Wir sehen hier den Protagonisten Alex, welcher mit erschrockenem Blick auf ein Buch starrt, aus dem eine Monsterhand zu kommen scheint, die nach ihm greifen will. Das passt an sich ganz gut, auch wenn die Monsterhand eher nicht zum Tragen kommt. Trotzdem macht es neugierig und ist für Fans von R.L. Stine einfach ein Muss.
Eigener Eindruck:
Alex liebt es Wetten abzuschließen und besonders macht es ihm Spaß mit der Schülerin Tessa zu wetten, wenn auch er gegen sie kaum eine Chance hat. Als er mit ihr eine Wette abschließt, bei der er um viel Geld wettet, dass er ein viel spannenderes Tagebuch führen kann als sie, scheint schon klar zu sein, dass er verliert. Kurz darauf bekommt er von seinen Eltern einen neuen Schreibtisch geschenkt, in dem er ein altes, aber leeres Buch findet. Er beschließt darin zu schreiben und traut wenig später seinen Augen kaum, als das Buch plötzlich doch beschrieben ist und zwar mit den Geschehnissen des darauffolgenden Tages. Alex kann fortan alle Wetten für sich gewinnen und scheint vom Glück geküsst. Doch als das Buch schreckliche Dinge vorhersagt und diese auch geschehen, beginnt für Alex eine regelrechte Horrorzeit.
Die Geschichte von Alex ist der fünfte Band der Reihe „Gruselfieber“ aus der Feder des Jugendkultautors R.L. Stine. In seinem urtypischen Schreibstil schickt der Autor den Jungen auf ein Abenteuer, das sich gewaschen hat und sogar erwachsene Leser begeistert. Mit jedem Kapitel schreibt der Autor eine spannende Passage, die in einem Schockmoment endet, zumeist aber im nächsten Kapitel aufgelöst wird, bis zum Ende des Buches dann wirklich kuriose Dinge passieren. Das hält junge Leser bei der Stange und man schwingt sich von einem zum nächsten Kapitel, um zu wissen, was denn mit den Figuren in der Geschichte passiert. Das ist raffiniert gemacht und ehe man sich versieht, hat man das Buch auch schon beendet. Einige Passagen sind in dem Buch recht vorhersehbar, aber trotzdem macht es eine Menge Spaß dieses Buch zu verfolgen. Einfach wieder klasse gemacht.
Fazit:
Wieder ein ganz tolle Jugendgeschichte aus der Gruselwelt von R.L. Stine, welche Fans und jene, die es werden wollen begeistert. Von mir gibt es eine Leseempfehlung.
Idee: 5/5
Charaktere: 4/5
Logik: 3/5
Spannung: 4/5
Emotionen: 3/5
Gesamt: 4/5
Daten:
ISBN: 9783570215340
Sprache: Deutsch
Ausgabe: Taschenbuch
Umfang: 124 Seiten
Verlag: cbj
Erscheinungsdatum: 24.05.2005
aber leider verlierst du immer,
bis du ein geheimnisvolles Buch findest, welches dir die Zukunft voraussagt,
nur dieses Buch ist böse…
Zum Inhalt:
Für den 12-jährigen Alex vergeht kaum ein Tag ohne eine neue Geldwette. Als er aber eine 100-Dollar-Wette mit Tessa um das bessere Tagebuchprojekt für den Englischunterricht abschließt, entwickelt sein Tagebuch ein ungewöhnliches Eigenleben: Abend für Abend erscheinen, wie von Geisterhand geschrieben, Eintragungen über den nächsten Tag. Unheimlich, schauerlich, unvorstellbar - das Grauen erreicht eine neue Dimension.
Cover:
Das Cover gefällt mir ganz gut und orientiert sich meiner Meinung nach recht passend an dem klassischen Gestaltungsstil, wie man ihn von den Büchern von R.L. Stine gewöhnt ist. Wir sehen hier den Protagonisten Alex, welcher mit erschrockenem Blick auf ein Buch starrt, aus dem eine Monsterhand zu kommen scheint, die nach ihm greifen will. Das passt an sich ganz gut, auch wenn die Monsterhand eher nicht zum Tragen kommt. Trotzdem macht es neugierig und ist für Fans von R.L. Stine einfach ein Muss.
Eigener Eindruck:
Alex liebt es Wetten abzuschließen und besonders macht es ihm Spaß mit der Schülerin Tessa zu wetten, wenn auch er gegen sie kaum eine Chance hat. Als er mit ihr eine Wette abschließt, bei der er um viel Geld wettet, dass er ein viel spannenderes Tagebuch führen kann als sie, scheint schon klar zu sein, dass er verliert. Kurz darauf bekommt er von seinen Eltern einen neuen Schreibtisch geschenkt, in dem er ein altes, aber leeres Buch findet. Er beschließt darin zu schreiben und traut wenig später seinen Augen kaum, als das Buch plötzlich doch beschrieben ist und zwar mit den Geschehnissen des darauffolgenden Tages. Alex kann fortan alle Wetten für sich gewinnen und scheint vom Glück geküsst. Doch als das Buch schreckliche Dinge vorhersagt und diese auch geschehen, beginnt für Alex eine regelrechte Horrorzeit.
Die Geschichte von Alex ist der fünfte Band der Reihe „Gruselfieber“ aus der Feder des Jugendkultautors R.L. Stine. In seinem urtypischen Schreibstil schickt der Autor den Jungen auf ein Abenteuer, das sich gewaschen hat und sogar erwachsene Leser begeistert. Mit jedem Kapitel schreibt der Autor eine spannende Passage, die in einem Schockmoment endet, zumeist aber im nächsten Kapitel aufgelöst wird, bis zum Ende des Buches dann wirklich kuriose Dinge passieren. Das hält junge Leser bei der Stange und man schwingt sich von einem zum nächsten Kapitel, um zu wissen, was denn mit den Figuren in der Geschichte passiert. Das ist raffiniert gemacht und ehe man sich versieht, hat man das Buch auch schon beendet. Einige Passagen sind in dem Buch recht vorhersehbar, aber trotzdem macht es eine Menge Spaß dieses Buch zu verfolgen. Einfach wieder klasse gemacht.
Fazit:
Wieder ein ganz tolle Jugendgeschichte aus der Gruselwelt von R.L. Stine, welche Fans und jene, die es werden wollen begeistert. Von mir gibt es eine Leseempfehlung.
Idee: 5/5
Charaktere: 4/5
Logik: 3/5
Spannung: 4/5
Emotionen: 3/5
Gesamt: 4/5
Daten:
ISBN: 9783570215340
Sprache: Deutsch
Ausgabe: Taschenbuch
Umfang: 124 Seiten
Verlag: cbj
Erscheinungsdatum: 24.05.2005
May 18, 2017
Review points: Story starting is 1 star
Keeping an story going is 2 star
Ending is 2 star
Review:
However, this was maybe the best idea R.L.Stine ever had; The one with much more potential to be scary. I' think R.L.Stine has no good idea for a real horror book like Stephan King, but he keeps story going so well! That's the point he is so famous.
((Dear Diary; I'm Dead)) is a great story starting with some questions, but it doesn't let that questions remain and the book answers them. The story starts with great character development and also makes the actual subject known right at the start. Also makes us know what kind of person is the Alex Smith the main character of the book. The book's start gets 1 star out of 1 star!
Keeping the story going is where that Robert Lawrence Stine makes the story very stressful!
Lots of great things happen between the Start and the End. Stine develops the story so good that you want to read it twice! You don't even feel how the time passes! Alex Smith experiences so much of Accidents that the diary becomes a nightmare to him. he can't get rid of the diary because some very strange reasons. There was no story like this which you ask you're self letter by letter what will happen next for Alex Smith? Keeping the story going gets 2 stars out of 2 stars. Believe me, if it was 3 stars for keeping story going i would let him get the 3 stars because he deserves it!
You thought the story i very nice till now, right? Yes it is, but not at the ending. (Spoilers).
The story was great till now but at the ending, where Robert Lawrence Stine isn't good any ways at, is where you get disappointed with thousands of questions in you're mind. (Spoiler). Imagine the story going very good right now but at the end you're main character (Alex Smith) dies because of lightning and after that, he wakes up and the exact sentences that Robert Stine used for him when he first saw the diary, are used to that point of story then 3 dots. It is like this:
When Alex first saw the diary:
ABCDEFGH
After he died at the ending:
I woke up. ABCDEFG...
I'm Sorry Robert Stine, but i cant give you those stars for nothing. Ending gets 0 stars out of 2 stars.
Overall:
(Dear Diary; I'm Dead)) is a great story wrote by Robert Lawrence Stine that has the most mysterious story ever in Stine's books. But he doesn't give us a good ending. But if you like to have a not specified ending, this book is for you!
Nice job Robert Lawrence Stine!
Keeping an story going is 2 star
Ending is 2 star
Review:
However, this was maybe the best idea R.L.Stine ever had; The one with much more potential to be scary. I' think R.L.Stine has no good idea for a real horror book like Stephan King, but he keeps story going so well! That's the point he is so famous.
((Dear Diary; I'm Dead)) is a great story starting with some questions, but it doesn't let that questions remain and the book answers them. The story starts with great character development and also makes the actual subject known right at the start. Also makes us know what kind of person is the Alex Smith the main character of the book. The book's start gets 1 star out of 1 star!
Keeping the story going is where that Robert Lawrence Stine makes the story very stressful!
Lots of great things happen between the Start and the End. Stine develops the story so good that you want to read it twice! You don't even feel how the time passes! Alex Smith experiences so much of Accidents that the diary becomes a nightmare to him. he can't get rid of the diary because some very strange reasons. There was no story like this which you ask you're self letter by letter what will happen next for Alex Smith? Keeping the story going gets 2 stars out of 2 stars. Believe me, if it was 3 stars for keeping story going i would let him get the 3 stars because he deserves it!
You thought the story i very nice till now, right? Yes it is, but not at the ending. (Spoilers).
The story was great till now but at the ending, where Robert Lawrence Stine isn't good any ways at, is where you get disappointed with thousands of questions in you're mind. (Spoiler). Imagine the story going very good right now but at the end you're main character (Alex Smith) dies because of lightning and after that, he wakes up and the exact sentences that Robert Stine used for him when he first saw the diary, are used to that point of story then 3 dots. It is like this:
When Alex first saw the diary:
ABCDEFGH
After he died at the ending:
I woke up. ABCDEFG...
I'm Sorry Robert Stine, but i cant give you those stars for nothing. Ending gets 0 stars out of 2 stars.
Overall:
(Dear Diary; I'm Dead)) is a great story wrote by Robert Lawrence Stine that has the most mysterious story ever in Stine's books. But he doesn't give us a good ending. But if you like to have a not specified ending, this book is for you!
Nice job Robert Lawrence Stine!
June 7, 2024
A fair entertained book
This a self-contained prose novel which is part of the “Nightmare Room” book series
ANOTHER BOOK LINE
I already read quite a bit of books written by R.L. Stine, but usually they had been from Goosebumps or Fear Street, but this is my first book from Nightmare Room, where it seems that it’s a line oriented for kids but even it looks more family friendly (with zero body count) than your regular Goosebumps novel, and something curious is that when you finish the book, you find a section telling in a general way about the supernatural phenomena that it was developed in the story, and you got a feeling that this Nightmare Room is like an attempt of doing a Twilight Zone for kids.
I BET YOU DON’T HAVE A DIARY LIKE THIS ONE!
Alex Smith is young boy with a terrible vice of betting, therefore he tries to do bets against his schoolmates about anything around them with the goal of winning some money and his current objective is buying a guitar to use with his music band formed by his close friends, Chip and Shawn.
Alex has a noisy classmate named Tessa Wayne, that while they are usually antagonist with each other, it’s clear that both have some mutual romantic interest.
Miss Gold, one of his teachers, gave them to Alex (along with the rest of the class but only Tessa shown real interest about it) of making a personal diary to get some extra points in their grades.
Fate gives the “perfect diary” to Alex coming inside of an old desk that his mom gave him, but this diary is not your regular one, since each night after dinner, written with even his own handwriting, Alex finds a page telling him details about what will happen the next day.
First, he thought that it was perfect to place bets and make money, but…
…with each diary entry, more and more dangerous things are predicted and Alex can’t avoid to happen even knowing ahead about it.
While there isn’t any body count in the story, and there is quite mild the tone of horror developed here, the book is quite entertained to read, maybe my major issue with it could be the quite abrupt and odd way to end the story at its climax (nope, I won’t spoil it) but certainly it wasn’t up to the expectations and therefore I couldn’t give it a better rating.
But, certainly I don’t complain about reading the book, since it was entertained and engaging to read.
This a self-contained prose novel which is part of the “Nightmare Room” book series
ANOTHER BOOK LINE
I already read quite a bit of books written by R.L. Stine, but usually they had been from Goosebumps or Fear Street, but this is my first book from Nightmare Room, where it seems that it’s a line oriented for kids but even it looks more family friendly (with zero body count) than your regular Goosebumps novel, and something curious is that when you finish the book, you find a section telling in a general way about the supernatural phenomena that it was developed in the story, and you got a feeling that this Nightmare Room is like an attempt of doing a Twilight Zone for kids.
I BET YOU DON’T HAVE A DIARY LIKE THIS ONE!
Alex Smith is young boy with a terrible vice of betting, therefore he tries to do bets against his schoolmates about anything around them with the goal of winning some money and his current objective is buying a guitar to use with his music band formed by his close friends, Chip and Shawn.
Alex has a noisy classmate named Tessa Wayne, that while they are usually antagonist with each other, it’s clear that both have some mutual romantic interest.
Miss Gold, one of his teachers, gave them to Alex (along with the rest of the class but only Tessa shown real interest about it) of making a personal diary to get some extra points in their grades.
Fate gives the “perfect diary” to Alex coming inside of an old desk that his mom gave him, but this diary is not your regular one, since each night after dinner, written with even his own handwriting, Alex finds a page telling him details about what will happen the next day.
First, he thought that it was perfect to place bets and make money, but…
…with each diary entry, more and more dangerous things are predicted and Alex can’t avoid to happen even knowing ahead about it.
While there isn’t any body count in the story, and there is quite mild the tone of horror developed here, the book is quite entertained to read, maybe my major issue with it could be the quite abrupt and odd way to end the story at its climax (nope, I won’t spoil it) but certainly it wasn’t up to the expectations and therefore I couldn’t give it a better rating.
But, certainly I don’t complain about reading the book, since it was entertained and engaging to read.
February 26, 2019
My book The Nightmare room is written by R.L STINE and the genre is mystery.
So my book starts off with a boy named alex who is tall and wiry. He is coming home from school. Alex gets an old desk from his parents. In the old desk he finds a mysterious diary which tells him the future. The next day he goes to school, the teacher tells alex and tessa a smart and blond haired girl to write a diary. After class alex bets 100 dollars he can write a better diary. Tessa accepts the bet and they go on with there day. After school alex goes home to write in his diary but realizes his diary has already been written in. Alex was confused and asked himself how this was possible. What was really off is that it was written in his writing and it told him what would happen tomorrow at school. So the diary keeps on telling him the future. Then one conflict that happens is his friend shawn a very serious and intelligent kid runs into a big yellow van during a rainstorm with his bike. Alex is upset because he knows its his fault,he knows he caused it by reading the diary and it telling him the future. If he hadn't read that book none of this would of happened and shawn wouldve went home safely. I personally liked this book because it shows how a book and an innocent child can cause this kind of ruckus. I think people who are into finding clues and solving mysteries would be into this this type of book.
So my book starts off with a boy named alex who is tall and wiry. He is coming home from school. Alex gets an old desk from his parents. In the old desk he finds a mysterious diary which tells him the future. The next day he goes to school, the teacher tells alex and tessa a smart and blond haired girl to write a diary. After class alex bets 100 dollars he can write a better diary. Tessa accepts the bet and they go on with there day. After school alex goes home to write in his diary but realizes his diary has already been written in. Alex was confused and asked himself how this was possible. What was really off is that it was written in his writing and it told him what would happen tomorrow at school. So the diary keeps on telling him the future. Then one conflict that happens is his friend shawn a very serious and intelligent kid runs into a big yellow van during a rainstorm with his bike. Alex is upset because he knows its his fault,he knows he caused it by reading the diary and it telling him the future. If he hadn't read that book none of this would of happened and shawn wouldve went home safely. I personally liked this book because it shows how a book and an innocent child can cause this kind of ruckus. I think people who are into finding clues and solving mysteries would be into this this type of book.
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November 19, 2020كتاب #دفتر_خاطرات_عزيزم_من_مرده_ام
دفترخاطرات عزيزم، من مُرده ام
#DearDiaryimdead
Dear diary i’m dead
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نويسنده #رابرت_لارنس_استاين
#RobertLawrenceStine
نويسنده مشهور امريكايي كه از علاقمندي هايش اين است كه با كتاب هايش، خواننده ها را به جاهاي ترسناك ببرد.
“الکس” پسری نوجوان و عاشق شرط بندی است! مخصوصاً با همکلاسی اش "تسا"دوست دارد شرط بندي كند ولی بیشتر اوقات می بازد.
یک روز "خانم گلد"، معلم ادبیات الکس، به او پیشنهاد می کند برای گرفتن نمر ي اضافی هر روز خاطراتش را بنویسد و در پایان سال به او بدهد. دوستش تسا نیز می خواهد همین کار را بکند. بنابراین آنها با یکدیگر شرط می بندند دفتر خاطرات هر کدام از دید خانم گلد بهتر بود صد دلار بگیرد. الکس این بار مطمئن است که از تسا می برد.
تصادف عجيبي رخ مي دهد و آن اينكه وقتي الكس به خانه ميرسد ميبيند پدرش براي او يك ميز تحرير جديد خريده و عجيب تر اينكه در كشوي ميز يك دفترخاطرات است با دستخط الكس اما به تاريخ فردا !
معرفي كتاب٦٥
#معرفي_كتاب_آرام_بياني
#آرام_بیانی
دفترخاطرات عزيزم، من مُرده ام
#DearDiaryimdead
Dear diary i’m dead
كتابي با ١٦٠ صفحه
نويسنده #رابرت_لارنس_استاين
#RobertLawrenceStine
نويسنده مشهور امريكايي كه از علاقمندي هايش اين است كه با كتاب هايش، خواننده ها را به جاهاي ترسناك ببرد.
“الکس” پسری نوجوان و عاشق شرط بندی است! مخصوصاً با همکلاسی اش "تسا"دوست دارد شرط بندي كند ولی بیشتر اوقات می بازد.
یک روز "خانم گلد"، معلم ادبیات الکس، به او پیشنهاد می کند برای گرفتن نمر ي اضافی هر روز خاطراتش را بنویسد و در پایان سال به او بدهد. دوستش تسا نیز می خواهد همین کار را بکند. بنابراین آنها با یکدیگر شرط می بندند دفتر خاطرات هر کدام از دید خانم گلد بهتر بود صد دلار بگیرد. الکس این بار مطمئن است که از تسا می برد.
تصادف عجيبي رخ مي دهد و آن اينكه وقتي الكس به خانه ميرسد ميبيند پدرش براي او يك ميز تحرير جديد خريده و عجيب تر اينكه در كشوي ميز يك دفترخاطرات است با دستخط الكس اما به تاريخ فردا !
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#معرفي_كتاب_آرام_بياني
#آرام_بیانی
May 4, 2025
A diary that tells the future. Alex seemed to have found a diary that would tell him all about tomorrow. Cool!
This was good news for Alex as he could win bets with the other kids. But not every piece of news was good. Well, if he knew what was going to happen, he could prevent it, right?
Soon, the diary has a hold of Alex and his life becomes one dangerous situation after another. Everything the diary said would come true? Was the diary causing it? Was the diary evil? What a series of frightening events! Will they ever stop? Or worse…?
A good read!
This was good news for Alex as he could win bets with the other kids. But not every piece of news was good. Well, if he knew what was going to happen, he could prevent it, right?
Soon, the diary has a hold of Alex and his life becomes one dangerous situation after another. Everything the diary said would come true? Was the diary causing it? Was the diary evil? What a series of frightening events! Will they ever stop? Or worse…?
A good read!
August 18, 2018
3.7 but the ending was not what I had expected it to be. When I made an assumption about the ending it was better that the real ending and I think that's saying a lot considering I'm not a writer. This was my first R.L. Stine book and I quite enjoyed it.
September 1, 2022
The Nightmare Room is possibly Goosebumps for slightly older/more scary tolerant readers. This one was a creepy addition to The Nightmare Room and I enjoyed it. Not the most terrifying story ever, but a really good one. If the reader uses a diary often, this one may add an extra chill to the story.
January 12, 2025
The book was fine, increasing the intensity and pace, until the very end when the author ended it in the most abrupt way possible. It's as if 98 percent of the book never happened, except in a dream or in the MC's imagination. The author doesn't make that clear.
March 27, 2025
This is one of my favourite Nightmare Room books. The concept of it is terrifying — Alex knows what’s going to happen the next day but he has no way of stopping it, despite how hard he tries to. And the episode from the TV programme is one of my favourites too.
October 13, 2020
Reverse fortune telling diary which ended up murdering as usual
10/10
10/10
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May 18, 2021
Really good story...kinda crappy ending.
November 2, 2022
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January 20, 2023
Es una narración muy sencilla, muy simple, a los de esta saga me los leí en un día en 3 u 4 horas, considero que esta bien, son muy entretenidos para algo tranqui
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