Personally, I remember being a fan of R.L. Stines earlier work in the early 1990's, but this particular story is the only one I've read, or in this case listened to, that was written in the recent era post-2000 that fell flat in my opinion. The book seemed redundant how the day would repeat again and again with a few scaling differences in each. The end seemed rather uncreative with a twist you would expect in an M. Night Shamylan movie. The narrators reading voice wasn't to my liking either, as it was too soft and his different voices all sounded the same unless it was for a man, woman, boy or girl.

This book is about a kid named Artie who woke up by hitting the floor, his mom came in and ask what are you doing on the floor. Artie said doing my mornign excecises. When Artie got down he saw his little brother and his brother sprayed syrup on him. Artie got splashed by a truck when he had to walk his little brother to school and his brother said it looks like you pead yourself. When he got to school he went to the wrong class room and was emmbarresed and he accidentally got someone elses back back from someone named Brick. When Artie saw this one room he saw statues coverd with a wrapping when he unwrapped the he saw a kid say i am Artie. The second day when he got to school his dog jumped on the principle and bit his hand. the third day it was different he was having something else for breakfast and his brother sprayed ketchup all over his face adn when he walked his brother to school there was a skunk oil truck and it got all over Artie and everything was black. Artie woke up and saw he was in the dentist, after the dens=tist he went to bed and it was the first day of school again. Artie was actually in a video game ( )

This book is about a boy's first day of school. Artie tries to impress the new kids at school but before he even gets to school Artie has bad luck. His brother gets syrup in his hair, a puddle of water on his pants and his dog ripped the principal's new shirt, the popular kid hates him. But that is just the beginning. This keeps happening over and over and doesn't stop. Every time it happenes it just gets worse. Artie figures out that he is stuck with bad things on his 'first' day of school which is actually a game.
I think this book is very strange. I feel bad for this kid. He is disliked by the school because of the popular kid.

Wow, I think I must have gone to the same school. I have certainly felt many of the same fears on my first day at a new school. Leave it to R.L. Stine to take things to the extreme and make everything seem impossibly creepy. If you like Stine's books, you will certainly welcome this new addition. If you haven't tried him, this strange tale with a twist ending will be a good book to start with. This book provided for review by the well read folks at Feiwel and Friends an imprint of Macmillan. ( )

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