What kind of books did you read as a kid? Mystery? Fantasy? Comical? How many of you had RL Stine’s Goosebumps in your bedroom library? Personally, for me, it was all about Christoper Pike (side note – When I wrote this first draft I wrote ‘Christopher Pine’ the fine actor who clearly is sitting on my mind).
When I was in Grade 5 I remember reading a spooky, haunting but engrossing book about a Magician or magician apprentice and I can’t remember the title. I really wish I did. What I do remember is being obsesses with the latest Christopher Pike. I can’t remember how old I was, but I think about 12, when I was reading Pike. I moved on from Pike to Agatha Christie, then by the time high school started I was into John Grisholm and Michael Crichton. But Pike stuck with me for a number of years.
I remember reading Spellbound, The Immortal and Chain Letter while my heart was racing and I gripped the book. I asked for more books for Christmas each year and couldn’t get enough. They were dangerous, racy at times and scary. These were the books I would steal away to my room as a pre-teen to read and share between friends. They were ‘grown up’ stories to me. Although they were young adult, and featured high school students, these were no longer the Babysitters Club series that I had once read.
My tastes in books now certainly can be rooted back to my Pike days. While I enjoyed the scientific and legal page turners that I read with Crichton and Grisholm, I’m still turned to supernatural/urban fantasy stories.
Were you an RL Stine or Christopher Pike fan? I often wonder what books my own kids will devour one day. And then I wonder why I was reading some of these books so young 😉
I was a Christopher Pike girl. I remember stalking the book store waiting for the next new one to be released. I owned all of them and still to this day remember my faves (Remember Me, The Immortal). They all now sit in a box in my basement. I wonder what we’d think of them if we re-read them today!
this shouldn’t surprise me!
I started reading RL Stine fear street in 7th grade, and moved to Christopher Pike when I was in 9th or 10th grade.
I should re-read some Pike!
I read both but definitely preferred Christopher Pike – great books! Thanks for the reminder!