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Okay so I am a huge Christopher pike fan. I found remember me to be one of his most well written books. I loved how he incorporated the feelings of how a teenager feels invisible into a teenager who really becomes invisible and realizes that it is the best thing that has ever happened to her. Finding love after dying is one of the things that I liked best about the book. It showed a prissy little teenage girl realizing that popularity isn't the most important thing in the world and that you never realize what you have until something happens to it. It went through all the motions with her. He made the reader understand her and we followed her transformation through all 3 of the books.

I read Christopher Pike a LOT as a teenager, and a few years ago was talking to my mom ( she was the one that pushed me to read, at the time she worked in a bookstore and was how I found Christopher Pike. In fact the book that got me interested in reading, I was 12 and it was a Pike book called Chain Mail) anyway we were talking about how I got interested in reading and Pike. She told me Christopher Pike, from what she was told, was actually a woman writing under a pen name and that she also wrote adult novels under a different name. I can not find if this is true or not, the last time I searched.

I remember all of Pikes books and loved them, was just thinking if the rumor about her writing adult novels was true they would be as interesting to read. I remember when I use to read Pike I found Richie Tankersley Cusick and her books were also wonderful.

I love both authors too! I think Christopher Pike is a pen name, but I think he is a man. (Last time I researched it... it's been a while.) He did write adult novels, under the same name, only he didn't find success that way and switched to his true calling: the teen genre. I love that his books are being re-released! That's how I discovered him, since the local bookstore didn't carry him when I was a teen.

To takb_mom: Another re-release, To Die For, is a must-read, but be warned--they're grissly. (Esp. the first one!) Unlike Remember Me, they're stand-alone.

To fellow bookadcict: I love Richie T Cusick too! I have a collection of OOP point horror novels, including all of hers! She's published some recent teen books you might like. Actually, C Pike put out a new book recently too, called Witch World. I collect paperbacks, and I'm waiting for the paperback release to read it. Cusick's books are in paperback.

I have read it before, only because I LOVED Thirst No. 1 and decided to read another of Pike's books. I didn't think it was as good as Thirst. The writing seemed weaker, the story not as strong as I would have expected. I also believe that Pike has some sort of obsession with first names that end in the letter "i."

Remember Me is the only Christopher Pike book I've ever read, but it was definately one I enjoyed a lot.

I was a huge Christopher Pike fan during my young adult and teen years. I have to say that the Remember Me series is one of the tops of my list in the teen thriller genre. There are a few other of Pike's books such as Weekend, The Midnight Club, and Road to Nowhere that I remember fondly as well. I did try a couple of his adult fiction a few years ago(I believe he wrote a total of 6 or 7) but they did not engage me like the YA thrillers did in my youth.