Christiana Posted September 24, 2009 Share Posted September 24, 2009 I love that guy! anyone remember him from back in the day? I mainly like his collection for teens "Fear Street". I am collecting them by finding them at thrift stores for $1.00. they are so fun to read! He's still writting too Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
hers Posted September 24, 2009 Share Posted September 24, 2009 i found a few in a used book store a few months back and wanted to buy it b/c the character in it had my same last name. but i decided not to. i used to shoplift those books. i was such a bad kid. i loved them though. they were so scary! Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
itsallgrand Posted September 26, 2009 Share Posted September 26, 2009 Holy crow, he is still writing! That's awesome. I do remember my personal spree with the Fear Street books. You could pick them up at drugstores and little kiosks in the airport and hospitals. It was lots of sitting in a hospital one summer that introduced me to him. Hmmm, People magazine and Harlequin novels or that. lol. What a neat little collection to build. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
LightbulbSun Posted October 1, 2009 Share Posted October 1, 2009 I remember him. I had all the Goosebumps books when I was a kid, and then when I was a teenager, I moved onto the Fear Street books. He also wrote some other books (The Hitchhiker was one I remember vividly) that I enjoyed. He also wrote at least one adult book. I picked it up when I was in high school, and talk about explicit. He was throwing around the f word and it was very sexually explicit. I thought it was a bit over the top, to be honest, but I respected him for trying to break into the adult horror genre. The interesting thing about R.L. Stine is that he was originally a comedy writer for children. He was "Jovinal Bob Stine." I picked up one of his early books when I was about 11, and it was really interesting to see how he started out. I lost interest in him after discovering Christopher Pike. That man is a genius (at least for writing books that appeal to teenagers), and his worst book trumps Stine's best one. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Christiana Posted October 2, 2009 Author Share Posted October 2, 2009 wow. does he write horror? Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
LightbulbSun Posted October 4, 2009 Share Posted October 4, 2009 wow. does he write horror? I'm confused. Aren't the Goosebumps and Fear Street books supposed to be horror (for children?) Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
shera Posted October 4, 2009 Share Posted October 4, 2009 I LOVED fear street! Did you ever read Christopher Pike? Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Christiana Posted October 4, 2009 Author Share Posted October 4, 2009 I'm confused. Aren't the Goosebumps and Fear Street books supposed to be horror (for children?) I meant does christopher pike write horror? lol Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Christiana Posted October 4, 2009 Author Share Posted October 4, 2009 I LOVED fear street! Did you ever read Christopher Pike? I haven't. is he for adults or teens? Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
shera Posted October 5, 2009 Share Posted October 5, 2009 I haven't. is he for adults or teens? he is a teen writer too...kind of like R L Stine but darker...bordering on grown up writing. I remember reading him when I was like 12-13 and thinking I was bad ass b/c of it! Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
LightbulbSun Posted October 10, 2009 Share Posted October 10, 2009 he is a teen writer too...kind of like R L Stine but darker...bordering on grown up writing. I remember reading him when I was like 12-13 and thinking I was bad ass b/c of it! Yeah, Christopher Pike is closer to Stephen King, but for teenagers, than R.L. Stine. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Sanesoul Posted November 25, 2009 Share Posted November 25, 2009 My daughter is 7 and she just got into a new series that he has started called "Horrorland". So far, she absolutely loves the books. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
stingray Posted December 23, 2009 Share Posted December 23, 2009 He still writes new books? I grew up reading them and can't believe his books are still popular and being sold. They were really good but I didn't think they would last this long. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
MaJoad Posted January 17, 2010 Share Posted January 17, 2010 when I was about 9 or 10 I read the entire Fear Street series, I found it so scary and enthralling. by the time my library got the Goosebumps series I had moved on. I'm a huge reader now and those books really shaped me and encouraged me. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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