The Works of Christopher Pike

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Which book is the one where there is time travel? I think this smart kid creates this computer program about nuclear war and the moral of the story is that the only way to win is to not play. But in the mean time I think he meets himself from the future or something?

Does anyone remember Spellbound? << Where this missionaries daughter's soul was merged with a vulture by the tribes shaman? And she returns to America and needs to feed off of people's souls so that her human side can stay alive , or something??? And there is a cute black exchange student named Bala I think? >>

I liked Chain Letter 1 better. Reminds you of ' I Know What You Did Last Summer' doesn't it ?

I'm sorry I don't know what we are supposed to spoiler .

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I liked Chain Letter 1 better. Reminds you of ' I Know What You Did Last Summer' doesn't it ?

No kidding. I reread that on the weekend, and remembered how it ended about 10 pages in. I also reread Slumber Party last night/this morning, and it was the same thing. It ended up being like when I watched The Sixth Sense - it's all so bloody obvious if you know the secret, it takes the joy out of it.

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aims said:

Which book is the one where there is time travel? I think this smart kid creates this computer program about nuclear war and the moral of the story is that the only way to win is to not play. But in the mean time I think he meets himself from the future or something?

That's See You Later. The woman who Mark's future self is traveling with is the future version of the girl he has a crush on in the present. PresentGirl [named Becky] has a boyfriend, though, which discourages Mark. FutureWoman [named Kara] forces the boyfriend and Becky [her present self] to break up so that Mark could be with her. It turns out that in Kara's time, the boyfriend is her husband, who is involved in/causing this huge, nuclear war and she wants to prevent her past self from taking that same path - one that will inevitably lead to war/destruction at the hands of the boyfriend. Of course, FutureBoyfriendTurnedHusbandAndHomicidalDictator also pops up to stop the FutureOtherFolks from altering the past. In doing so, Mark gets killed and PresentBoyfriend is all, "Wow, I'm never becoming that dude" [meaning his future self] so the future is saved. Or something.

So they won 'the game' by getting rid of the elements that would have caused the war to begin with.

Oh, and I could have sworn that Mark's future self [named Vincent] was dead or hibernating or something during Kara's time - she either resuscitated him or made a stop in her immediate past to pick him up along the way. I can't remember that detail clearly.

Wow, that was hard to explain.

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aims said:

Which book is the one where there is time travel? I think this smart kid creates this computer program about nuclear war and the moral of the story is that the only way to win is to not play.

OMG... I was just coming here to ask which book that was! I remember that subplot better than the actual main plot.

I also checked Witch out of the library about 9,000 times when I was in junior high. That's the book that taught me the difference between automatic and semi-automatic weapons. For that and other aspects of the book, I will always have a soft spot for Christopher Pike.

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Thanks Auron, I had forgotten most of that plot. Wow he has a few twists in that book. I should reread it.

Mutagen , that's why I loved Clive Cussler books because I learned so much about history and about SCUBA diving. I knew what the 'bends' were and what SCUBA meant when I was just a wee little Aims.

I wish all the countries building nuclear weapons would realize the "the only way to win is not to play" moral !

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I've found my peeps! Christopher Pike's books were my crack when I was about 13. I loved the crime and/or supernatural elements of the stories. I still have them all in my childhood room in my parents' house and re-read them a while ago. (Now I want to pull them out again.)

My first one was Remember Me, which is still one of my favorites. It's one of those stories that proceeds and ends exactly the way it feels like it should.

Other favorites: Gimme a Kiss, Fall Into Darkness (although I didn't like how it ended with Sharon "needing a lawyer" yet again at the end--hasn't the poor girl been through enough?), Monster, and Spellbound (I loved Bala too), and Last Act, and the Final Friends trilogy (had a huge crush on Mike).

I liked Scavenger Hunt but I just had a huge problem with Cessy in general, and one teeny thing that bugged me at the end was when, right after Carl and Tracie had sort of officially become a couple, she told Carl in front of Tracie that she would come back when he was an old man and skinny-dip for him. It's a pet peeve of mine when women hit on a guy in front of his g/f/wife/date; it's just rude and obnoxious. It was made worse when, after Cessy left, Tracie called her a bitch and Carl said made some kind of pseudo-joke about Cessy's plan being not a bad idea or something like that. Wrong response dude, even if you're joking. Am I crazy to remember that one tiny part? Probably.)

Die Softly was the only one I read that I found too disturbing; I was so upset that Alexa killed Herb, not to mention the horrible way she did it by making sure he could only breathe through his nose so he had no choice but to eventually snort cocaine and OD. It was all the worse considering that Herb basically knew all along that Alexa was the murderer, but he couldn't bring himself to turn her in or tell anyone, and was stupid enough to go to her house alone.

And, whoa, I just found about about this.

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You know, I THOUGHT they made a movie out of one of his books. Has anybody seen it? I doubt Blockbuster will have it.

I would love to see Remember Me or Spellbound made into a movie. They have such great special effects these days that they could show the part with the Shaman in Spellbound and the parts in Remember Me when she watches peoples dreams.

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Fall into darkness - that's the one where the main character's best friend sets it up so it looks like she was murdered by the main character, right? But she dies by accident? How did that one end?

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Funny thing is, all I remember about Fall Into Darkness was that she got the idea from reading a book. A THIN GREEN book....and Gimmie a Kiss was that book. Cool huh? Other than that I don't remember much.

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OH YEAH!!! Ha. It's slowly coming back to me now.

Great, now I have the urge to go see if the used bookstore has any of Pike's stuff.