I read them all...

[nursedoa]

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I think I read everything that Christopher Pike wrote. I loved this shit!

[nursedoa]

Chain Letter was my first. I was devoted. I was not an R.L. Stein girl.

His real name is Kevin McFadden!

R.L. Stein = no

[disorganization]

Chain Letter was so good, dude. I think the first one I read was Scavenger Hunt, and if I remember correctly, that one was also pretty brutal (for an 11-year-old). I also loved Remember Me, about the ghost trying to solve her own murder. The MAKEOUT PARTS were my favorite! So racy for YA lit.

Re: R.L. Stein = no

[nursedoa]

Yeah, his books were so sexy. I remember there was one where a group of teens were learning words of the SATs and they were making up sentences to remember the words. One word was wanton and they tried to remember it by saying that two of the teens made wanton love in wonton soup. The two teens they jokingly chose for the sentence secretly and desperately wanted to bone each other and the sentence made them uncomfortably horny. I remember it made me so hot! He knew how to turn young girls on. Creepy talent!

Re: R.L. Stein = no

[tinybehemoth]

Hell yes. I totally did not dig R.L. Stein, and totally dug all the Christopher Pike sexiness. Did you read Monster? That one managed to be sexy in a creepy way that made me uncomfortable. My faves were the Final Friends trilogy, which had some SAT cheating, possibly the same one with the wanton/wonton, but not sure.

Re: R.L. Stein = no

[nursedoa]

I loved Monster!

http://books.google.com/books?id=8DsEAAAACAAJ&dq=inauthor:Christopher+inauthor:Pike&lr=&ei=rrsHSI7MA5jWyASt2pTQBw

I distinctly remember thinking at the time that Monster was the most brilliant and wonderful book I had ever read. Seriously!

i totally want to be a YA librarian

[disorganization]

I made a post about favorite YA novels a little bit ago -- folks here definitely mentioned a ton of great stuff that I'd like to read again:

http://disorganization.livejournal.com/73507.html

Re: i totally want to be a YA librarian

[nursedoa]

I meant to post in that one because I totally remember that book. What a cover!