I Live in Your Basement! (Goosebumps, No 61) [Paperback]

R. L. Stine (Author)

Product Details

• Paperback: 111 pages
• Publisher: Apple (November 1997)
• Language: English
• ISBN-10: 0590399861
• ISBN-13: 978-0590399869
• Product Dimensions: 7.5 x 5.2 x 0.5 inches
• Shipping Weight: 3.2 ounces
• Average Customer Review: 3.4 out of 5 stars  See all reviews (15 customer reviews)
• Amazon Best Sellers Rank: #458,805 in Books (See Top 100 in Books)

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3 of 4 people found the following review helpful:

3.0 out of 5 stars It was a good book., November 3, 1997

By A Customer

This review is from: I Live in Your Basement! (Goosebumps, No 61) (Paperback)

The book is about a boy(MARCO) who's mother is paranoid. She warns him about everything, for example: don't play softball because you might break a bone. So he sneaks out to play softball, and his friend Gwynnie was practicing her swing and he got knocked in the head. So he went to school and his teacher asked him about his stay in the hospital. Marco couldn't remember the visit. He had a phone call from a kid named Keith, that said that he lives in Marco's basement. After these incidents it was all a dream. But Keith really did live in his basement. Then in the end it was another dream and Keith was really Marco and an alien.

6 of 9 people found the following review helpful:

5.0 out of 5 stars THERE'S NO PHONE IN THIS ROOM!, October 18, 2002

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Bobby Pagenkopf (Lenexa, Kansas United States) - See all my reviews

This review is from: I Live in Your Basement! (Goosebumps, No 61) (Paperback)

I AGREE THAT I LIVE IN YOUR BASEMENT IS A LITTLE CONFUSING BUT IF YOU STICK WITH IT YOU'LL LIKE IT. IT'S ABOUT A KID NAMED MARCO WHOSE MOTHER IS A SAFETY FREAK. HE CAN'T EVEN SHARPEN PENCILS! ONE DAY HE SNEAKS OUT TO A SOFTBALL GAME AND GETS HIT IN THE HEAD WITH A BAT. HE WAKES UP ON HIS COUCH AND GETS A CALL FROM A KID NAMED KEITH WHO SAYS HE LIVES IN MARCO'S BASEMENT. STARTLING EVENTS COME UNTIL MARCO WAKES UP IN A HOSPITAL. HE THINKS HE'S AWAKE BUT ACTUALLY WAKES UP AGAIN. WHEN HE GOES HOME HE FINDS KEITH IN HIS ROOM. KEITH IS REAL AND CAN CONTROL MARCO'S DREAMS. THEY GET INTO A FIGHT WHERE IT LOOKS LIKE THE END FOR MARCO! THEN KEITH WAKES UP. IT TURNS OUT KEITH IS A MONSTER AND WENT OUT TO PLAY SOFTBALL AND GOT HIT IN THE HEAD. HE LIVES IN MARCO'S BASEMENT WITH HIS MOM AND LOOKS LIKE AN INSIDE OUT PERSON. HE CAN LOOK LIKE US IF HE WANTS SO HE CAN WALK AROUND WITH US. MARCO THEN DISCOVERS THEM IN HIS BASEMENT. THE STORY THEN ENDS ON A JOKE. I GAVE IT 5 OUT OF 5 BECAUSE I THOUGHT IT WAS GOOD. JUST STICK WITH IT AND I KNOW YOU'LL LIKE IT. I DID.

4 of 6 people found the following review helpful:

1.0 out of 5 stars Obviously shocking!!!, March 27, 2005

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Stephen J.K "Stephen" (Australia , Victoria) - See all my reviews

This review is from: I Live in Your Basement! (Goosebumps, No 61) (Paperback)

R.L Stine has made this all too confusing. The script is so confusing. I couldn't understand it. R.L Stine has also ran out of ideas. You want to know why? His second book, Stay out of the basement, is way scarier, better script, and way better. This is confusing, bad script and a nearly exact copy. Marco, can't believe whats happening. His getting distracted and confused. Just like us. He is suffering disturbing and odd happenings, and his mum, who is a safety freak, doesn't believe him. Too bad. Too bad because the person or other who is disturbing Marco, has given the last of his warnings...


Marco's mum, wont let Marco do anything, even if it isn't dangerous. So an angry Marco sneaks out to meet his friends in a softball or baseball match. Marco feels the thud of the baseball bat hitting him in the head. He wakes up. Startled, he heres the phone ring. Answers it and heres another person on the end of the phone. A guy called Keith. And geuss what Keith says...
"I live in your basement, Marco."
Confused and in disaray, he tells his less than convinced mum. His mum doesn't believe him. Marco, with the bandage wrapped around his head, complains. But then a peculiar thing happens.
His mum says they don't have a phone, in the room where he answered Keith's strange and peculiar call.

Confusing as it gets, later on is more the same.
This deserves a one star.