Christopher Pike YA author! Anyone read his stuff?

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Okay so I remembered recently that a million years ago in high school I was absolutely obsesssssed with this series by Chistopher Pike, The Last Vampire 1-6, and also read a few other titles from him as well. Well I've been wanting to re-read them as an adult... so tonight I went down a huge rabbit hole online for a couple hours (the kind where you sort of black out and then snap out of it afterwards like 'what have I done'), found out about thriftbooks.com and got excited that they sold original prints from like 30 years ago, and accidentally bought 11 of his books 

I guess I'm committed to getting back into reading   **** (ELEVEN books. Who does that? I haven't read in years)

but anyway I digress... I know it's a longshot but I'm just wondering if anyone else here has read his stuff?? Please tell me you enjoyed them so I can justify spending so much money in one go 

The titles I got were:

Spoiler

- The Last Vampire 1-6 

- The Lost Mind

- The Season of Passage

- The Weekend trilogy

- And I did want to re-read Monster again too but that one was a little pricey... we'll see how the first 11 go first  

 

(Hopefully at least one person has heard of him/his stuff so I'm not just shouting into the void  ) okay bye

[Healed My Heart 39,510]

I was obsessed with his books too! I really wonder how they hold up today. Maybe I'll accidentally buy some as well 

My favorites were Remember Me (it's a trilogy I think) and Fall Into Darkness - which they made into a TV movie with Tatyana Ali (talk about a 90s throwback!). But I only vaguely remember the stories at this point.

[Nemo 4,207]

I'm amazed he had time to do this and command the Enterprise, too.

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8 hours ago, Healed My Heart said:

I was obsessed with his books too! I really wonder how they hold up today. Maybe I'll accidentally buy some as well 

My favorites were Remember Me (it's a trilogy I think) and Fall Into Darkness - which they made into a TV movie with Tatyana Ali (talk about a 90s throwback!). But I only vaguely remember the stories at this point.

Yay someone who can relate! I was so obsessed with The Last Vampire when I was at high school, I would've read all 6 books about three times through! I also read Monster and The Lost Mind and loved those too. But just like you, I want to see how they hold up in the current day,  interpreted by my now fully developed adult brain    I would've last read them 15-17 years ago! Insane how time goes by. They were old books back then.. they're super old books now! Some of his books are older than me 

I wanted to buy a couple more I hadn't read, so I looked for his highest rated books and everyonnne seemed to rave about Remember Me, so I grabbed the trilogy too. And Also Season of Passage seemed well reviewed and interesting

Come back here if you pick any up and give them a go!

(P.S. they also made The Midnight Club into a Netflix series which seems quite popular and well received. They've also been trying to turn The Last Vampire into movies for over a decade but I secretly hope it never happens so the story is my own interpretation in my mind  )

 

  

6 hours ago, Nemo said:

I'm amazed he had time to do this and command the Enterprise, too.

STOP   I guess he's just a very talented man. And they aren't having adventures every single night you know!. There's a lot of downtime on the ship between missions I'm sure. And not a lot to do in space

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17 hours ago, Helxig said:

Yay someone who can relate! I was so obsessed with The Last Vampire when I was at high school, I would've read all 6 books about three times through! I also read Monster and The Lost Mind and loved those too. But just like you, I want to see how they hold up in the current day,  interpreted by my now fully developed adult brain    I would've last read them 15-17 years ago! Insane how time goes by. They were old books back then.. they're super old books now! Some of his books are older than me 

I wanted to buy a couple more I hadn't read, so I looked for his highest rated books and everyonnne seemed to rave about Remember Me, so I grabbed the trilogy too. And Also Season of Passage seemed well reviewed and interesting

Come back here if you pick any up and give them a go!

(P.S. they also made The Midnight Club into a Netflix series which seems quite popular and well received. They've also been trying to turn The Last Vampire into movies for over a decade but I secretly hope it never happens so the story is my own interpretation in my mind  )

After reading your post, I actually ended up buying the Remember Me trilogy and Fall Into Darkness  I can't wait for them to come, hopefully they're still good and we aren't just like

Lmk when you get yours!

Also I didn't realize The Midnight Club series was based on one of his stories, I've seen the trailer but never tried it!

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4 hours ago, Healed My Heart said:

After reading your post, I actually ended up buying the Remember Me trilogy and Fall Into Darkness  I can't wait for them to come, hopefully they're still good and we aren't just like

Lmk when you get yours!

Also I didn't realize The Midnight Club series was based on one of his stories, I've seen the trailer but never tried it!

Hahaha happy reading! I eagerly await my large package of books 

[TimotheeChalamet 4,657]

In Italy they were published as a more "adult" division of the Goosebumps series and I remember reading some of them too. The main issue was that I was like 9-10 and dumb at the time, so I didn't know they were following a certain order and ended up being completely puzzled with how the story flowed