The Works of Christopher Pike

[deelight]

Did anyone else read these? I was obsessed with them when I was in junior high. I actually came across my old copies of Chain Letter 1 and 2 the other night, and read the first one in less than a day. They are actually still quite disturbing, esp the second one.

[starskin]

Oooh, memories. I read my copy of The Immortal until it fell apart. It had it all. Suspense! Greek Gods taking over human bodies! Sexual Tension! An big twist ending! <<Ground up glass in the hamburgers? Who saw that coming?>>

The one about the lizard aliens was really good too, though the name escapes me at the moment.

I don't know why I was so into him, since I don't normally do suspense or horror novels, but something about his writing was so evocative and *just* creepy enough. Strangely, I seemed to be the only one reading him, because at that time everyone was into R.L. Stine, who, frankly, bored me to tears.

[sleepy]

Christopher Pike was big big big at my junior high. I know I read lots of them, but I can't remember any of the plot details now. I remember the titles were always in bright colors like hot pink or day-glo yellow, and one had a mailbox on the front cover.

[Maddiemoo]

Oh man, I LOVED Christopher Pike! He was a great author to read after you got out of elementary school and realized how stupid R.L. Stine's books were. Chain Letter 1 and 2 are by far the best -- they were really messed up! I also remember liking the Final Friends trilogy a lot, too. To be honest, I think my 11-year-old self was just into the violence and implied sex. What else does a book need?

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Oooh, I still have a bunch of those. (Late high school for me.) I should pull one out and read it - it will only take a couple of hours.

[carrier76]

Did he write a book called "Weekend"? Because I read something like that my freshman year, I borrowed it from a friend. Then I lent it to another friend and she never returned it. Nice. This was the precursor for VC Andrews for me. No, I didn't read VC 'til I was in high school.

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carrier76 said:

Did he write a book called "Weekend"? Because I read something like that my freshman year, I borrowed it from a friend. Then I lent it to another friend and she never returned it. Nice. This was the precursor for VC Andrews for me. No, I didn't read VC 'til I was in high school.

Yup. It pretty much was a VC Andrews for children. Excepting the incest.

[linared]

Oh I loved this books. I loved the high school trilogy and the vampire books. One of the vampire books actually made me throw up. (Could have been the sleeve of oreos I ate and the incredibly hot weather, but I blamed the books). The greek goddess book is also a favorite and really made me want to go to Greece. Did anyone ever read his adult books? I think that there was one about a woman who was God and the other about a woman who was pregnant with the antichrist. I think there was supposed to sequels to these books but I haven't looked.

[spinsterliz]

I loved Christopher Pike back when I was about 12-15, but his books seem a little ridiculous now that I'm in my 20s. His characters are just so incredibly slick-and they're only sixteen or seventeen years old! And it kinda creeps me out the way he constantly describes how totally sexy his female characters-who are only teenagers-are, and how they walk around topless with their long legs peeking out from under the flimsy towels around their waists and shit. He seems sort of like a dirty old man to me now. Shame.

But I will say he knows how to tell a good story, and he's great at twist endings. Gimme a Kiss is awesome. I loved that book so much when I was a pre-teen. The Chain Letter series is really good, too. I remember the second book was all about Satanism. R.L. Stine's books were definately namby-pamby next to Christopher's. He always went for the, "Ha ha, it was just a joke! The guy you thought you accidentally killed is really alive!" thing. Cop-out.

I gave up on Christopher Pike when he started with all the religious junk about "I am a twelve-thousand-year old immortal who lived in the temple next to Krishna" etc. That stuff started taking over his later books and I found it boring and hard to follow. I think his earlier books were the best. But if he came out with a new one now I'd probably read it just for old times' sakes.

[franticjoy]

I still love Remember Me. At the time (I was 10), I'd never heard of the blond hair/green eyes combination that Shari had, and it fascinated me. Plus all the incest and the murdering and the diabetes and finding out that an air bubble inside a syringe can stop the heart (I've since found out that it has to be a really BIG bubble). And the guy Shari meets in the afterlife- Peter? He's completely awesome.

Although- if I remember correctly, Shari figured out that Amanda and Jimmy were actually related because they were both color-blind. But isn't the gene for color-blindness only carried on the Y chromosome?