I wouldn't recommend the Patman book. It's cringey because during the sections dealing with the cowboy Patman (forgot his name) the author relies on too many Western cliches (down to the dialogue). As for the others: Mystery Date is OK,and it's one of the few "contemporary" SV books (Olivia dates Ken anonymously via an Internet (AOL? It's been a long time) chat room) Bks # 141-143 + the Earthquake series:Cringey,but not terribly so.
Only other one I've read is the Wakefield Legacy book,which deals with Ned's side of the family. It's 8/10,primarily for the descriptions of SoCal and Ned's father's personality.
This was one of my favorite Christopher Pike books when I was younger. The whole ground glass in the hamburger thing really freaked me out and I was always eyeing the person who made my hamburgers suspiciously. Then I read some article in college about how ground glass actually canāt kill you because your body just digests it and pushes it out. It kind of made me a little pissed off at Pikeā¦ Josie and Helen are best friends, but in that high school way, where they actually donāt really like each other. Helenās family is kind of poor, but that didnāt stop them from sending her to Greece the summer before. Now theyāre going back, thanks to Josieās dad. Heās a screenwriter and traveling with his stuckup, prissy girlfriend Silk. The book flashes back to two women and I bet you know where this is going. Sryope and Phthia were two women living during ancient times. Phthia was obsessed with a guy who Sryope secretly loved. She made him indebted to her and then got bored and ran off with other...
Iāve read this book a few times lately and every time, go into it thinking that I donāt really like it, but then I remember that I do. Maybe because there arenāt any sci-fi elements or aliens in it! Well there are alien like things, but not like in his later books. Angela is a fairly new kid at school, who somehow gets invited to a party with all the popular kids. Her best friend Mary walks into the party, brandishing a shotgun. Without saying a word, she blows away football player Todd and cheerleader Kathy. Five seconds later, she points the gun at her own boyfriend Jim. Angela stops her by screaming and Mary retaliates by kicking her in the face. Jim, whoās basically a big pussy, runs off into the woods, with Mary hot on his tale. Angela follows and runs into Lieutenant Nguyen, who listens to what she says and then goes after Mary. Angela wanders into the woods and runs into Jim. Mary pops up and tells them that Jim āisnāt humanā and nearly kills him, before Nguyen stops her. Nguyen...
Mary Lee and Madrigal are twin sisters and best friends, up to the point when their parents decide to send Mary Lee (ML from here on out) to a private boarding school. ML expects her sister to stick up for her and refuse the separation, but Madrigal thinks itās a good idea. ML feels all crappy because she thinks her parents hate her, but goes anyway. She hates the school and withdraws from everyone, to the point where her roommates and classmates start ignoring her and think sheās weird. She goes home and learns that her twin now has her own life, including a boyfriend. She doesnāt want him to see her at all because she wants him to think of her as unique. Then Madrigal comes for a visit and wows all of her classmates, who think sheās so cool. They all go skiing and she loans ML her own cool ski outfit. The lift breaks and Madrigal falls to her death, but because of her clothes, everyone thinks it was ML. She tries to tell everyone who she really is, but they think sheās in shock. When...
I wouldn't recommend the Patman book. It's cringey because during the sections dealing with the cowboy Patman (forgot his name) the author relies on too many Western cliches (down to the dialogue). As for the others:
ReplyDeleteMystery Date is OK,and it's one of the few "contemporary" SV books (Olivia dates Ken anonymously via an Internet (AOL? It's been a long time) chat room)
Bks # 141-143 + the Earthquake series:Cringey,but not terribly so.
Only other one I've read is the Wakefield Legacy book,which deals with Ned's side of the family. It's 8/10,primarily for the descriptions of SoCal and Ned's father's personality.