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Summary: Outstanding, Outlandish, Out of this world
Review:
Wow. Wow. Wow. And wow some more.
This book has an amazing plot for a young adult thriller. In fact, I would recommend it to just about any adult I know.
The story is amazing. There's twists, bends, curves, scrapes, and bumps. The ending is a shocker of sorts, each scene is an unpredictable event that makes your heart beat with more than just suspense, but pure emotion - yes, definately emotion. I even cried. Twice. (Or maybe more times...yes, I'm a softie, what can I say??)
I don't care that this is a YA, this one was INTELLIGENT. Plenty of hidden meanings, commentaries, explorations of life. Again, wow.
The atmosphere was simply frustrating and depressing - good!
Characters were convincing, I loved nearly every one. Pike writes amazingly well. Sometimes he has long paragraphs with stylish words that could be almost considered poetry - other times it's shorter and clear, forward and to the point.
This type of work, with its creativity, originality, genuineness,
and passion - is, and forever remains, timeless.
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Summary: Where evil lurks
Review: A group of friends arrive in their hometown, and find it totally deserted. The newspaper articles do not help much, and the weird things that happen to them are not things to wish upon the worst enemy one has. I like the feel of this ending. We know what will happen, but do we really? The thing with Pike is that a conclusive ending is no guarantee that the story is over. In reality, there is potential for three more books here--having each character tell his or her story to us.
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Summary: An excellent and creepy book
Review: A young, teenage couple leave their hometown for a weekend and when they return, eveyone is gone and there is no trace of life elsewhere on the earth. (They find this out by calling people on the phone.) They soon discover three other poeple in the town and its a mystery how these 5 came to be the only ones in exstence. This is an good book with chilling parts.
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Summary: hmm....deep
Review: After watching the miniseries "The Stand" by Stephen King, I was enthralled by the end of the world theme and tried to find a book that wasn't as long as the "The Stand". I found this one. I had been a fan even before this book, but with the whole theme of "no one's around" it gave me endless chills and hope he gives more and more chills.
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Summary: Urgent, but Haunting
Review: As a teenager I read all of Christopher Pike's books, but this has always stood out in my mind as one of his very best. I love Stephen King, but this book affected me like no King ever has. I still remember the moment when I closed the book and felt like the earth was falling away. The book touched my perception of reality like no other. The last chapters contain some of the most harrowing passages I have ever read. The characters are great! A MUST-read for suspense & horror fans of all ages.
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Summary: Chilling, dark, and thought provoking...
Review: As always, Pike manages to weave a web of mystery and suspense, while still relating very close to real life, and the issues that many of us face, not just as teens, but as human beings. The book starts out at the height of Roxanne's - the main character - existence, as it shows the ever interesting relationship between her and her boyfriend, Pepper, develop. Things head slightly downward after that, as they are plunged into a vapid world where only they, and 3 other teens exist. There, along with the help of their newfound friends, they must figure out just why they were brought to this place, and how to go about escaping.The plot may sound simplistic in itself, but that couldn't be farer from the truth. The characters are rich with very distinct personalities, and the mystery of Betty Sue and her spiderweb will keep you on the edge of your seat longing for more. Not to underplay the greatness of the book, but the one problem I did find was the end. I won't spoil it for anyone who doesn't want to know, but let me just say it left a bitter taste in my mouth.
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Summary: Great and exciting!
Review: Christopher Pike never lets his fans down. This book was one of his best. From page to page, the reader wonders what will happen next. The suspense is great, and the storyline
is rather chilling, egging the reader to read on and on.
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Summary: I read it when I was 10...and I still think about it.
Review: Christopher Pike was perhaps the catalyst for my passion for reading. Starting in 3rd grade, I set out on what seemed like a divine mission to read everything the man had written (and, I believe, I succeeded)...it gave me my first taste of another world, aside from my small childhood universe. Because I was hardly old enough to appreciate "real" literary material, I was drawn in solely by his flair for storytelling...and that is why my appreciation for this story is based only on my first, immediate impressions. "Whisper Of Death" was the first book to have a real emotional impact on me. I haven't read the book since - it's been about six years; I couldn't tell you any of the specifics of the plot. All I remember is, as I closed the book, I felt the most intense feeling of loneliness I'd ever experienced. The stilted rhymes, the dark fairy-tale veneer, there was something about it that was truly haunting. After reading it, I felt as if I were the only person left in the world. It frightened me more than any "Cujo" or "American Psycho" could. Christopher Pike may write young adult novels with less-than-impressive substance material...but that doesn't explain the feeling I get when I think about the book I read in 4th grade. If you read "Whisper Of Death", don't examine it too closely - let it work its way into your mind and then, after a while, see if your perception hasn't changed in some small way. (Of course, it might help to be 10 years old.)
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Summary: Christopher Pike's intriguing mystery thriller.
Review: Christopher Pike's Whisper of Death was the scariest book I've personally ever read. Not only that, but unlike other horror books churned out at an impossibly reeling pace by one author, this book proves itself to be intelligent, beguiling, and EXTREMELEY scary. Also, the storyline is fresh and original. I am not at all a usual reader of horror, but you big time horror fans will immediatley recognize how free of cliche's is this story. You won't be able to put it down!
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Summary: Creepy
Review: For a teenage potboiler, this bbok is rather creepy. Five teenagers inexplicably find themselves in a dead, abandoned world; the only common thread linking them is their connection to a dead girl. They soon find themselves being killed off in ways so imaginatively gruseome as to be worthy of an Italian horor film. The only drawback is the out-of-date moralizing: Roxanne had an abortion, so she must die! Otherwise highly entertaining.
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