muscle growth book

[endlessbulk]

when i was younger i read the book "Creature" by John Saul (YA horror fiction). basically it's about muscle growth in the local football team. does anyone know of any other books with muscle growth?

this is from amazon. it's still for sale:

The latest horror novel from consistently bestselling Saul ( Suffer the Children ; Hellfire ) is set in Silverdale, Colo., a company-town variation on Spielberg surburbia. There, conglomerate TarrenTech provides the high school teams with every advantage, including a high-tech sports clinic. Dr. Martin Ames beefs up the brawny, aggressive teenagers, and it's to him that newcomer Sharon Tanner goes for answers when her gentle son Mark turns into a belligerent jock overnight. This slick, high-concept thriller, which might have been titled Stepford High , won't surprise anyone, but it should please the author's fans as it continues Saul's focus on children as the vehicles and victims of unnatural forces. 100,000 first printing; $100,000 ad/promo; Literary Guild selection

[jjsmith]

If someone wants to read the book you can download from this links:


http://rapidshare.com/files/39525376...ature.zip.html
http://www.megaupload.com/?d=WCH01KDY




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[MGN]

Books with muscle growth... I remember there were a couple of books in the "Give Yourself Goosebumps" series (a Choose-Your-Own-Adventure-type spin-off of the Goosbumps books) that involved muscle growth: "A Night in Werewolf Woods" (I think) had a story branch involving cereal O's that give the main character super strength and titantic muscles (complete with shirt-ripping); and a story branch in "Little Comic Book Shop of Horrors" has the main character becoming a hypermuscular superhero.

[darkluster4]

Originally Posted by MGN

"Give Yourself Goosebumps" series that involved muscle growth: "A Night in Werewolf Woods"; and a story branch in "Little Comic Book Shop of Horrors".

Yes, those books are real, but I don't know what's in them.

[MGN]

Originally Posted by darkluster4

Yes, those books are real, but I don't know what's in them.

...Say again?

[endlessbulk]

Originally Posted by jjsmith

If someone wants to read the book you can download from this links:


http://rapidshare.com/files/39525376...ature.zip.html
http://www.megaupload.com/?d=WCH01KDY




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Awesome! Good job.

[darkluster4]

Originally Posted by MGN

...Say again?

I went out and made sure those were the correct titles, but I don't know what's in them aside from what I've heard hear.

Originally Posted by jjsmith

If someone wants to read the book you can download from this links:

[COLOR=#11263e]http://rapidshare.com/files/39525376/SaulJohn_Creature.zip.html[/COLOR]
[COLOR=#11263e]http://www.megaupload.com/?d=WCH01KDY[/COLOR]
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Can any one tell me a particular page?

[chocomus]

I've got both of them (well, in fact I have all the goosebumps collection) The titles are right: "Night in Werewolf Woods" and "Little Comic Shop of Horrors".
The best of the two is the werewolf one. Half the options are about those cereals who give you muscles (and a evil dwarf who... well I'm not gonna say it in case you wanna read it ) or knowlenge. Some of the scenes worth it. It's my favourite of the series!

[redkage]

I've finished reading the book about five minutes ago, and I must say I'm both entertained and disappointed.

First of all, although the book DID mention some things about muscle, there were little content. Muscle was more of a side thing in this, and only mentioned a few times, in either scientific terms or a comment on how Mark was just beginning to develop. If anything, this story is more related to a werewolf transformation then a muscle growth story, which was what it could have potentially become. The set up was just right and everything for one of those muscle moments we all know and love, but unfortunetely it didn't.

I did, however, found the book itself a good read. I don't read too many horrors, but I strangely enjoyed this one. True, the ending could have gone better, as always, and not it's bittersweet ending, but like I'm always telling people, I'm a hopeless romantic .If you do read this story, read it for it's suspense and anticipation of what would happen next. It contains many different issues in society about human experimentation, playing God, etc., as well as some of the pressures inside family, school and sports, which is pretty good if you're into those kinds of things.

My Ratings Out of Ten
Muscle Content: 1 (Barely Any/Minimal)
Plot: 8 (Interesting and attracts attention)
Characters: 7 (Nicely developed, but hard to keep track sometimes)
Flow: 4 (PDF file was a bit crammed together into halfpage long paragraphs, and sometimes difficult to follow fast change of scenery. Perhaps the real text is less strenuos on the eyes?)
Depth: 9 (Has strong connections to current common issues and morals in today's society)
Overall: 7 (It's a good book to read if you are interested in a semi-horror/sci-fi type story.)

[agreatguy6]

Speaking of Goosebumps, There was one that had a Batman lookalike on the front.

That was one of my first experiences of Muscle growth and one of the first hints of me being gay (which is still a mystery... ).... Wow, 4th grade, man... that was the year...

[TheMM]

Originally Posted by agreatguy6

Speaking of Goosebumps, There was one that had a Batman lookalike on the front.

That was one of my first experiences of Muscle growth and one of the first hints of me being gay (which is still a mystery... ).... Wow, 4th grade, man... that was the year...

I believe I know which one you mean AGG, don't remember the title myself though.

I'm definately gonna look for "Night in Werewolf Woods" and "Little Comic Shop of Horrors" at my library and stuff like that. If that doesn't work, then I'm off to Amazon.com to do some shoppin!

On a side note, the only "Give yourself Goosebumps" I ever actually read was "Beware of the Purple Peanut Butter" which put simply is a macro/micro story with the word "Goosebumps" on it as well.

Oh, just remembered. The book "A Night in Terror Tower" has a really muscled guy on the cover.

[chocomus]

[quote=TheMM]
On a side note, the only "Give yourself Goosebumps" I ever actually read was "Beware of the Purple Peanut Butter" which put simply is a macro/micro story with the word "Goosebumps" on it as well.
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Shit!! I ruined the quote!!! Well, it's readable anyway...

For the people who are into that macro thing, there is Monster blood II and Monster blood III.

[MGN]

Originally Posted by chocomus

For the people who are into that macro thing, there is Monster blood II and Monster blood III.

Both of which feature a very muscular bully named Conan Barber. (Guess what his nickname is?)

There's a scene where he offers the main character a free punch...and the poor boy almost breaks his hand.

[agreatguy6]

I found mine, it was called "Attack of the Mutant"

It was pretty sexy back then, but now it's probably not.

[MGN]

Originally Posted by darkluster4

I went out and made sure those were the correct titles, but I don't know what's in them aside from what I've heard hear.

I still don't quite understand your point.