The Things That Change You

[janeanger]

List five books, albums, and movies that the first time you read/heard/saw them had an impact on your life, how you viewed things from art to politics to fellow humans. Add to the list, bold what you've read or heard and pass the motherfucker on down the line. (Previous contributions from Haredawg and catenormal

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[spectralbovine]

Wait, The Midnight Club?? Really? I didn't know you were a Pike fan too! How did that change your life? Also, can you explain the ending to me because it made NO SENSE AT ALL.

[janeanger]

To be entirely fair, I have not read this book in years. But when I did read it - around age 12 or 13 - I was so, so touched by it. I was a Pike freak at that point. I think I read all of his books that were out at the time, but that one was by far my favorite

[spectralbovine]

Hm. I remember some weird shit about aliens and a spaceship.

I was a Pike freak throughout junior high and high school.

[janeanger]

I think I need to revisit this book, if only to satisfy our collective curiosity.

I found this synopsis online:

Rotterham Home was a hospice for young people, a place where teenagers with terminal illnesses went to die. Nobody who checked in ever checked out. It was a place of pain and sorrow, but also, remarkably, a place of humor and adventure. At the hospice was a group of five young men and women who called themselves the Midnight Club. Every night at twelve they met and told each other stories--tales of intrigue and horror, of life and death. True stories, made-up stories, and stories that fell somewhere in between.
But one night, in the middle of a particularly scary story, these five people make a pact with each other that says that the first one of them who dies is to make every effort to contact the others--from beyond the grave.

Then one of them does die.

And the story begins.

The most wonderful story.

The most horrible.

[thorin2003]

I'm going to have to think about this for a bit, but I'm definitely doing this one. :-)

[atlasimpure]

American Beauty was an enjoyble view but other wise CRSAP.