Camp Nowhere (The Nightmare Room, #9) (2024)

Camp Nowhere (The Nightmare Room, #9), R.L. Stine
The Nightmare Room is based on fears that children have, such as ghosts and monsters, which normally ended with comments by the narrator whose final words always were "the nightmare room", then a door with The Nightmare Room logo appeared, closing. Camp Nowhere: At summer camp, Russell rows over Forbidden Falls — and finds himself in a summer camp haunted by the ghost of an evil Native American spirit.
تاریخ نخستین خوانش: روز بیست و چهارم ماه فوریه سال 2005 میلادی
عنوان: اردوی تابستانی - از سری کتابهای تالار وحشت شماره 9، نویسنده: آر. ال. استاین؛ مترجم: غلامحسین اعرابی؛ تهران، پلیکان، ویدا، 1383، 160 ص؛ شابک: 9649592350؛ چاپ دوم 1386؛ سوم 1388؛ چهارم 1389؛ موضوع: داستانهای نویسندگان امریکایی - سده 21 م
عنوان: اردوی تابستانی - از سری کتابهای تالار وحشت شماره 9، نویسنده: آر. ال. استاین؛ مترجم: غلامحسین اعرابی؛ تهران، هانا، 1384، 158 ص؛ شابک: 9649592350‬؛
عنوان: اردوی تابستانی - از سری کتابهای تالار وحشت شماره 9، نویسنده: آر. ال. استاین؛ مترجم: محمد قاسم زاده؛ تهران، ویدا، 1386، 160 ص؛ شابک: 9789642912216‬؛
اردوی تابستانی نهمین کتاب از سری تالار وحشت است. «راسل»، از ارشدهای اردوگاه تابستانی، نگران است. او با یک قایق باید، به یک سفر پر از خطر، در فراز آبشار ممنوعه برود. مربی‌ها، داستانهایی درباره‌ ی ارشدهایی كه به آبشار رفتند، و دیگر بازنگشتند، سخن میگویند.... اما این حرفها نمی‌تواند راست باشد ... «راسل» با ترس بسیار، گام به درون قایـق می‌گذارد. اما نمی‌داند به سوی تالار وحشت، پارو می‌زند. ا. شربیانی

R.l.Stine's books has been my therapy since i was 11 so don't expect me to stop doing it tho🦦

برای گروه سنی خودش بسیار خوب و مناسب است اگرچه که ما بزرگترها به اینها می‌گوییم آبکی.
اگر کمی وحشت واقعی هم می‌گذاشت بد نبود ولی ترجیح داده استرس خاصی به بچه ها وارد نکند!

My entire childhood literally revolved around R L Stine books. Good days.

I figured I'd have time to squeeze one more camp book in before summer ends.Little did I know that Camp Nowhere from The Nightmare Room series would have the same kind of problem as a previous book I read.It had a lackluster start with a pretty decent second half and one of the best endings.The story starts with our main protagonist Russel ,a scardey cat that carries around a good luck charm,which is a lighter.He and his his four "friends" Erin, Marty ,Charlotte and David are all are senior campers this year and get to go on a legendary canoe ride through the forbidden falls,a boat ride off a waterfall basically that a couple years ago and a few times before lost some kids and they went missing.They do this as a tradition though complete with a campfire tale of why this river is the way it is.It turns out over a hundred years ago this camp was on Indian land and they considered the land sacred so when a bunch of people came in dirty and wanted to bathe in the water ,they ruined the river and now anybody who goes near is cursed or something.While the story is being told Russel thinks he hears drums playing.The first half of this book is honestly filler ,but it's R.L.Stine filler so atleast it's fun filler.We get our wasps and snakes on a hill ,which is all fun and scary .But the real trouble happens when they finally take the boat ride through forbidden falls.They end up going through only to find out something isn't quite right and it makes the kids angry.So they decide to play a trick on the camp counselor that leads them to this.They flip the canoes over and let their life jackets float down stream.They end up getting lost and end up running into a new camp.Camp Evergreen is great the leader seems nice they get plenty of food.But they quickly learn that this camp is a little different.They see a kid warning them to leave and find arrowheads and little dolls handcrafted in the woods nearby.The second half of this book was way better then the first.And it honestly had me intrigued.But this book took forever to get going with the plot.Their is really no creepiness until the second half, unless you count the snakes and stuff.This wasn't a bad book but it was very underwhelming.This is so far my least favorite Nightmare Room book and probably my least favorite camp book from Stine.The best thing about this book was the descriptions of camp and the ending.I give Camp Nowhere a three out of five stars.

Camp Nowhere
Marty, David, Charlotte, Russell, and Aaroun are spending the summer again at Camp Hawkwood. They’re giving Rusell a hard time about being scary and not wanting to do some of the camp activities (now and n the past) Like the Forbidden Falls. They’re on a hike and look up and see some caves. They also see someone else who looks like they’re going to fall. It’s Harvey the camp’s dog. Russell does a brave thing and starts to climb the ave to rescue him. He thinks if he can rescue the dog, they won’t think he’s a punk anymore. As he starts to climb, they yell a warning at him that the camp counselors’ have warned them about the snake caves, but he continues to climb. When he reaches Harvey he starts to snarl at him (which is unusual because Harvey is usually friendly toward him). He then realizes the reason. Ther’s a snake wrapped around his leg.

Then there are tons of them. His friends yell for him to say still They all encourage him to jump but he doesn’t think he can... Rusell remembers a lighteher in his pocket and thinks that if he can reach it maybe the flames will scare the snakes away, but the snake (one of them) rears his head back. Harvey is able to distract the snake with his bark, but when Russell kicks the snake off they both go rolling of the hill.

Russell is ok, but he gets a scolding from Charlotte. She tells him she knows why he did what he did but he’s gone to far. He reminds her that of all the incidents so far that haven’t made the summers o great. He couldn’t finish the swim across the lake because of a cramp, then he got read splotches all over and had to drop the soccer team, and then he started screaming when he thought Ramos was a grizzly bear. She tells him he needs to get over it and he says he will when he’s the first to go over the Falls. They then head for the campfire. Marty yells for Russell that the cotton mouth followed him, but he’s not falling for it. That is until he feels it on his shoulder. But then he realizes it’s a joke. Marty and David have dangled a rope over his shoulder. Russell realizes he has to show them he’s brave.

Ramos-one of the counselor begins the story of the Forbidden Fall Noone was allowed into the falls and it was known as “The Pure Place” until a bunch of Civil War soldiers ame and defield it.They put a curse on it and called it Forbidden Falls. Several years ago some boys from camp disappeared over the Falls and were never seen again. There was no sign of their canoes or clothes. The strangest thing was their parents received a letter from the five four years later from them saying how much they enjoyed camp. There’s a moment of silence for the five who will make the journey in hopes of a safe return. Russell then hears the steady pounding of drums and feels a prescene behind him, but no one else seems to hear or see anything odd.

Marty says he knew someone who had a cousin that went there. David says he knew someone who did the Forbidden Falls ride and it was the worse thing he ever experienced. The rocks were the worse. Ramos says they were cray to believe those stories. The falls are a piece of cake. But if they’re scared they can back out. The boys don’t believe him but they’ll find out soon. A few days later, they’re led to the river for practice and given their life jackets. The practice goes ok. They notice that the canoes are new but flimsy. When Russell gets back to his room there’s a note that says “Don’t go! You’ll never return.” The night before the trip, Russell has a nightmare that he falls are red and he goes over the falls. His dog Panda is there. The next morning, they head for the hills to the river. Once they’re in the canoe the ride starts off calm, but Russell tells them it won’t be long before that changes. He tells them if one of them is to go over let the falls carry him down and then he’ll rescue them. As the water goes faster, the canoe tips and Rusell goes over.

The fall isn’t bad. They’re in shallow waters so they all decide to get out. Only when they do Russell bumps into a wasp nest and gets stung. They paddle for a little more of the two-day trip and then stop for the night and have dinner. They find a stone arrow with a feather and a leather doll. The objects look new. That night Russell hears the drums again. When he wakes up, he hears Ramos screaming. Ramos has torn the tendon in his arm. He tells them they’ll have to go with out him. The Falls are close (about a half an hour). HE says he’ll meet them at the bottom of the falls and wishes them luck.

As the rapids get rockier and quicker, Charlotte thinks they should turn back, but Russell says they should keep going (determined not to be the wimpy one). Then he feels them going over. But there’s no big drop. It’s all been a camp practical joke. They all decide to play a joke back on Ramos. They’ll send their boat back around the curve smashed up and float their life jackets in the water so he’ll think something happened to them. Ramos frantically begins to search for them and starts to run all the way back to the camp when he sees the overturned boats and the life jackets. They decide to head back to the camp but on the way back they don’t recognize the area and then the canoes aren’t where they left them.

They all think that maybe Ramos hide the boats to get back at them, but his footsteps aren’t there and for that matter there’s aren’t either (smooth sand). There’s also a tree there, a wall, and a bridge that aren’t there before. They decide to wait there until Ramos comes back after trying to find their way back to camp and then winding up in an area (again* that’s unfamiliar. During the night Russell and the girls hear the drum beats and they wake the others. They follow them to a camp where tehre are boys. The boys take one look at them and exclaim that they’re the ghosts. Once the confusion is cleared up their introduced to the camp director and he tells them they are at Camp Evergeen. He gives them food and a place to stay for the night. He says they can’t reach anyone at their camp but they’ll try again in the morning.

That night they run into a strange guy outside named Drew that tells them but then one of the conselors interrupts and when they look up he’s gone. Some weird things happen the next day even though they all have a great time. A guy named Mike seems not to know what Air Jordan sneakers are, Drew is no where to be found, and neither is Uncle Bryant. They decide to go to his office after dinner and ask if he contacted their camp. Only when they get there the phone is unplugged. Uncle Brayant appears and explains it away that he got frustrated and just unplugged the phone because he couldn’t dial out. He says he’ll keep trying. That night after they watch and movie and head back to their rooms, they notice a fence that they’ve never seen before and someone is yelling for help on the other side. Will tells them it’s nothing and hurries them away. Later, they decide to go back and they find Drew. He tells them Will and Uncle Bryant heard him say he was going to tell them the truth and locked him in the shed. He tells them they are in danger and they have to get away from this camp. He can’t explain now but he will once they are away. They debate over whether he’s telling the truth but decide to trust him, so they try to make their escape but they’re surrounded by the shadows of animals. The shadows push them through the woods and they bring them back to cam when the shadows lift. Uncle Bryant and Will capture a struggling Drew whose yelling that he hates them and he hates this camp. He tells him he knows they can’t tell, but he says he doesn’t care and continues to scream until they take him away. Russell asks Uncle Bryant is he holding them all prisoner there and Uncle ryant admits that he is.

Uncle Bryant says when they first got there the camp was haunted by Native American spirits. They let them live but the curse goes for two days only they’ll get to enjoy camp. The rest of the days they sleep. Drew puts them at risk because he’s always trying to leave. If they would have escaped with him, they would have killed them all. He says that at dawn Camp Evergreen will vanish for three hundred sixtythree day and they’ll vanish too. Drew takes Rusell’s lighter and sets the whole place up in flames. He kids put the flames out and the spirits start to vanish. Since they saved them Uncle Bryant says he’ll let them go. They promise to keep his secret and he tells them to get to the other side of the river. They find the falls that the ghost camp was hiding. They have to ride the rapids down and they find their missing canoes. Noone can survive that kind of fall tho.

The rapids hit the canoe hard and they all go down. Rusell thinks they’ve all died and vanished. The Falls got them too. Rusell waits to die, but the spirits lift him and his friends and take them over the river. Back at camp, the other other campers surround them and ask about Forbidden Falls. Rusell tells them it was a piece of cake.

My Thoughts
Not bad for a camp book. It keet some intrigue all the way to the end. I was even content with these ending and didn’t have any suggestions how it could have been better. I was wondering how it was going to hold my attention on a story about a river rafting contest and whether the whole story was going to be that they died because of the Falls but I think just that I didn’t know where it was going chapter after chapter did the tric and that I didn’t have a guess that turned out to be what happened.

Rating: 6

Nothing happened much in the first half of book except for kids teasing and making fun of each other. The horror finally kicked in the last few chapters. Despite it being abrupt, this is perhaps the only book out of the series with a good ending.
I wondered what happend to that camp counselor Ramos since the book never mentioned him again!

داستان کتاب خوب بود
گره مناسب داشت
تعلیق داشت
غیرقابل پیشبینی هم بود
اونقدرا ترسناک نبود ولی واقعا هیجان انگیز بود
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یکم ادبیات نوشتاری فارسی یک دست نبود.فک کنم ویراستار گفته بچه ها که نمیفهمن ولش کن:)) ولی ضعف داشت

Me gusto el final y la trama... au que siento que tardo en despegar la historia.

A Native American curse makes things very very strange for a group of campers. (Ghost...panthers?) Yeah, this is some weird s**t right here.

تاریخ شروع کتاب: ۱۴۰۱/۱۱/۱
تاریخ پایان کتاب: ۱۴۰۱/۱۱/۲

3/5

2.5🌟

Usually I can find some entertainment value in the schlocky and goofy antics of an R.L. Stone (oops I was stoned when I wrote this) book. Not this one. This one is a sedative. Reading this is akin to eating uncooked steel-cut oats. Nothing is funny or fun or even creepy in the slightest. Most of the time there's not even the cheap thrill of a red herring to string you along. You get nothing. If this book was soup it would be plain water from the tap with a fork on the side (double food metaphor—I don't care because neither did whichever ghostwriter fulfilled the contract for this unceasingly banal codswallop).

اردوی تابستانی - از سری کتابهای تالار وحشت شماره 9
در مورد کتاب : امسال راسل کمی نگران اردوی تابستانی است. او امسال جزو ارشدهاست... یعنی مجبور است به یک سفر اضافی برود. سفری خطرناک با قایق از فراز آبشار ممنوعه. بعضی راهنماها داستان هایی در مورد ارشدهایی که با آبشار رفتند و دیگر برنگشتند تعریف می کنند... اما این داستانها نمی تواند واقعیت داشته باشد... راسل با وجود ترس شدیدش قدم به درون قایق می گذارد اما نمی داند که مستقیما به طرف تالار وحشت... پارو می زند.

This seemes to be a series book, but it is written so that you can pick up any book in the series- a bonus.

I don't usually read mysteries, or horror-I think the (goosebumps) are more horror..but then again..it's not written by stephen king.. what I mean to say, is that it is juvinile, which limits the gory details you can put into a book.

It's always interesting to hear a story from first person, and it's quite a different perspectev then second person's "he" or "she"

so far the book is pretty good. It has kept my interest because of all the detail and events that are going on. the book was really good. the end of the book had a twist in it and made you wonder what was going to happen next. It kept me interested in it and turned out to be a good book. i liked the detail the book had

This book barely pulls a two star but not because the story is bad. It's just so generic. In fact, I think R.L. Stine wrote a Goosebumps book that alomost perfectly mirrored this book.

I'm actually more of a fan of his Goosebumps novels but this novel was pretty decent in my opinion.

This book is really good. Unlike Stine's other books, it has a fairly happy ending.

This book is twisted and catches you off guard-unpredictable which makes it great!

I use to read R L Stine during school

Ah rakastan R.L.Stinen kirjoja :--) Tuli tässä aamusella luettua extempore :3