03 Live Bait - More & More Tales to Give you Goosebumps Audiobook
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- Опубліковано 1 жов 2024
- The third story from More & More Tales to Give you Goosebumps makes a young boy on holiday face his fear head on, and it goes right to his stomach.
More & More Tales to Give You Goosebumps is the fifth book in the Tales to Give You Goosebumps series. It was published in 1997 and contains 10 short Goosebumps stories.
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Timmy's family is vacationing at Lake Bigelow, where his parents catch and cook fish every day. Unfortunately, Timmy hates fish, which he is teased about by a kid named Duke. Duke dares Timmy to go fishing with him, and - as the boys walk to the docks - Duke taunts Timmy by taking a dead trout, plucking one of its eyeballs out, and popping it into his own mouth.
At the docks, Duke asks for a boat to rent, but none are available. However, Duke spies a small pier down at the end of the dock and a shack advertising live bait, which the boys walk over to. Inside, they are greeted by a friendly old man, who offers them equipment. Unfortunately, the boys don't have enough money to rent the equipment, but the old man promises that - if they give him the largest fish they catch - they can use the equipment for free.
The boys board an old boat and begin fishing. Suddenly, a giant fish rises from the lake. The boat tips into the monster fish's mouth, and the boys sink into the stomach of the fish. Inside the stomach, hundreds of smaller fish swirl and churn. The combined movement tips the boat out of the giant fish's mouth and back onto the pier. The old man greets them and claims that he has been trying to catch the gigantic fish for years, and the boys were just the bait he needed. He reveals a large glass jar marked, "LIVE BAIT." He throws a net over the boys and drops them into the jar.
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Live Bait is one of my favorite stories in this book. I really liked the atmosphere and it's overall premise on how they actually made fish pretty scary. The boys wished they did something else with what's in store for them.
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This took me a few re-readings before I could figure out the twist. Now I understood it. My guts is telling me this was originally planned to be adapted in the tv show as a sequel to Go Eat Worms,because the tv show changed the ending to that one,leading the kids to go fishing and one of them was dragged into the water. It's really similar to how Live Bait starts.
What, there's more giant fish in the lake the old man's trying to catch?
Right?! Or he just wants some company.
I first thought the old fisherman was the big fish,considering he has "whiskers". Nope,turned out he needed live baits.
There is always a bigger fish
I think this short story should've been adapted in the the 90s Goosebumps tv show!
Agreed. It should have been a sequel to Go Eat Worms. The ending for Go Eat Worms (at least in the tv show) has the two main characters going fishing and one of them has been dragged into the water. I do wonder if Live Bait was made to have a tv adaptation because of this.