Christopher Pike Books

To those who didn't 'get it' Sio is an alien, who live several millenia ago. She figured out how to make people/mice etc. Super intelligent with AI chips. She got cheated on by her boyfriend, got mad, killed him, used chips to conquer her world and then millions more. In the time it took, she became Godlike and then turned up on Earth. She was testing Earth's responses by using Cass and friends to see if they were worth her time. Okay lecture over. Brilliant novel by Pike as usual.

yes i agree this book/mystory is the best book/mystory i have ever read and the monkeys in were just exceptioinal and then i was thinking what the hell is going on here and then it all exploded and we fled of our gerbil powered spaceship made from the remains of a dead kitten and it was crazy and we were like omg omg this is crazy and then heaton came and he saved us with his awsome cs skills and the world was saved once again from the like of monkeys and gorilla and omg wow mr.macallum. and then he said to me wow whats going on here tim this isnt what your spose to be writing but i thouight this was just exceptional and then all the people read it and they were like wow u need to be put up to stanford univerity and im like phhhht sif that im better then that and i divised a way to explode the universe and i fled once againest on my dead giraffee powered apple tree and i was all like omg wow this works so well and in the background the universe exploded and i was laughing att it laughing like a dead monkey!! and then this review was found many years later on a distance universe and they thought it was the best thing they ever read and i went down in history for ever and ever and ever and then the world exploded and my review went on another journey to another distant planet and we were like omg wow this is great and the spirt of your mother and me were kept a secret for ever. The book was good too but i think my story was better because it interesting and the world must now know how cool i am and ill go down in history for being sioo cool and then omg the world is going to explode again

In The Hollow Skull, Christopher Pike writes about a lot of interesting and exciting things, which made me want to keep reading. There's an old abandoned mine which only scientists have been down into for about twenty years. Then one day, two teenage couples decide that they want to go down into the mine and explore. While in the cave something happens, and it changes everyone's lives in the nearby little town. Pike gives so much detail that when he ends a chapter, it starts getting better and you feel like you need to keep reading.
It's exciting because Pike, throughout the book, adds something surprising that I wouldn't have expected, especially the ending. I loved this book, because Pike ends the chapter when it's getting better, and that's what made me want to keep reading.

My boyfriend bought this book as a joke from the Dollar Tree. We were laughing in the store at the pathetic opening lines. Anyone who reads this book and takes it seriously without laughing out loud at its poorly, and ridiculously, constructed prose is a moron. For example, "Fred able was her main squeeze, better than fresh orange juidce in the morning, more an extra-large cappuccino late at night." Are you kidding me? I realize that these are teen books, but does that mean the writing must be boarderline retarded? The book is full of disconnected imagery and half-baked ideas. "He had a great toothy smile that made him look gentle and clever at the same time." Huh?

But, if you seriously liked this book, then I envy you. Because any peice of crap will seem like a hemmingway. Your dim mind must be in a whirl of entertainment and satisfaction. Lucky you.

This is not only the worst Chrisopher Pike book I've ever read, but one of the worst books I've ever read, period. If you enjoyed this you must not have read a lot of his books before, because this book rips off of just about every single one of them. Teens trapped in a small desert town? Check. (See "Whisper of Death") Unrealistic confrontation with the military? Check. (See "The Last Vampire 3: Red Dice") A possessed boy killing his girlfriend way out in the desert? Check. (See "Chain Letter 2: The Ancient Evil") Tiny alien beings from billions of years ago who enter the bodies of teens via liquid and turn them into something non-human, then spread? Check. (See "Monster") An all-powerful female who created the race she later destroys? Check. (See "The Starlight Crystal")

Pike must have needed a quick check from his publisher because he obviously reeled this one off in a hurry. In fact it's more like he excreted it from . . . well, you see where I'm going with this. This book is just simply a piece of ****.

It's so badly written that the editors obviously got tired of reading it too, because there are formatting mistakes in the latter half of the book. As for me, I had to keep starting and stopping because it was so bad that at times I wanted to throw it across the room, or pour water all over it. I might have done, if it wasn't a library book. In fact, I'm still not sure why I bothered finishing it at all. This half-baked book is an insult to Pike's readers and a waste of their time. DON'T READ IT!!!

You have been warned.

In Christopher Pike's, Execution of Innocence, the main characters are Charlie, Mary, Richard, Lieutenant Sharp, and Lieutenant Riles. Charlie and Mary were always the happy couple that everyone wanted to be. They loved each other a lot until one night when Mary and Richard, her friend and ex-boyfriend, were hanging out. Charlie saw Mary and him hanging out and laughing, and at the end of the night they hugged and Charlie got extremely mad. One sad day, Richard was laying dead on the streets, his mom said that Richard was walking home from the gym. Everyone thought it was Charlie who had killed him because Charlie was missing as well. Lieutenant Sharp and Lieutenant Riles were asking Mary many questions about Charlie and Richards relationship. The city and the policemen were all searching for Charlie or evidence of were he might of went.

After almost 3 weeks of searching for Charlie, a neighbor to an abandoned house saw distorted dirt that may have had something buried under it. She told the police and they investigated the dirt and lying there dead was Charlie. Investigators found fingerprints on Charlie from Lieutenant Riles. Lieutenant Riles was proved guilty and got sentence for life in jail for 2 murders.

I think this was a really interesting, great book, that leaves you wondering what will happen next. It is kind of scary, but what is really great about it is that when I read Execution of Innocence, I could picture what I was reading in my mind. Before, I use to hate reading, I thought it was a waste of time, but now that I know there are stories that interesting out there, I want to go and get more Christopher Pike books and read as much as I can. The ending caught my attention real well, i coulnt believe it. I liked this novel.

This book really looked like it was thrown together in fifteen minutes. I could have dug that story right out of the septic tank. The ending, in particular, was bad. Hannah's reasoning had not been foreshadowed at all, and it was just bad.... Keep in mind this is my opinion, so don't let one- honest- bad review stop you.

A review by Sherri
My book was about four mysterious people Charlie, Dick, Hannah, and Mary. Hannah was the jealous one out of the bunch, she didn't like that Mary and Charlie where going out, and having a good relationship. Dick didn't like Charlie for some reason either, so Hannah had a plan, and acted all innocent through the whole thing. At one point in the book Charlie thought that Mary was cheating on him with Dick, because he fixed her car, and brought it to her house, and she invited him into her house.

This book had many good and bad scenes throughout it, the beginning of the book; I thought was very boring, but then when I got into the middle it got exciting, and turned into a mystery. Charlie was missing from home, for a long time, and Mary got questioned by the police, if she knew where he was at the moment, or the night before, but she didn't know, and was all worried about him. Hannah didn't really have anything to say about it, because she was just a fool, she told Mary that they where best friends, probably so when she did something to Charlie, Mary would probably believe that Hannah really didn't do it.

I think that anybody that likes to read mystery books, should read" Execution of Innocence", because it's a good and interesting book, I would give this book 4 stars.

I think this book was really good . I mostly read it at night , cuz my friend (that already read it) said i shouldn't read it at night cuz it was a bit scary . But i did read it at night . I got a lot into this book cuz i thought it was great and i wanted to know more each day and it only took me 3 days to read it , so u can say that i got into it a lot . So i think that this book was really good specially the relationship between Mary and Charlie . I just felt bad when he called her a whore cuz i would feel insulted by that . That's just when i didn't like it . Also i think that at the ending Mary and Charlie could've done something else to show their love for each other , instead of Hanna and Mary kissing , Charlie and Mary should kiss or something !

Ok, the beginning of the book was excellent but as soon as the deaths start occuring, things start to get a little rushed! You're probably hearing this from a lot of people because it's true! The ending simply felt as if Pike had 2 minutes remaining in a deadline he had to make. I mean near the end, deaths were happening too fast! It left me unsatisfied and with a big "?" mark over my head. Since I am a sensitive person, it actually almost had me crying but I was too confused and dissapointed to. The book isn't bad at all, it's just not Pike's best. I would recommend reading the Last Vampire series, Chain Letter series, and Scavenger Hunt.

I'm a major Pike fan, i own 29 of his books and read 22 of his books. The other books i've read by him i got a sense of them being complete, full and besides wondering how he wrote such novels and a wish for more sequels, i never had any questions. This book to me felt incomplete.

There's a lot of foreshadow he could've used, especially with the details on the waves and how Danny waterskied and more about his love for Gale. All I wondered was besides mentor's disapproval how else was the scene significant to the plot of the story? I don't mean to spoil the book for those who didn't read it. The book started out beautifully, but from middle to end it felt like a waste and that he was in a hurry. It had a lot of promise, and I personally wish he would rewrite it. I would try to rewrite it, but then that'll be considered illegal.

This is the story of a group of friends who take a little vacation after they graduate from high school. While up there, odd things start to happen. A mystery unfold, one that leads to deaths. The end of the book ties the whole thing together, as most of Pike's books do. I loved this book and the way Pike always surprises you with what happens at the end

I overall liked this book, what i found was that at first.. the storyline went really slow, then nothing happened, then boom! it's the climax.. then.. what just happened? u think to urself, the back cover confused me, and some of the writing was just too odd, like how they talk to him... some of it's ok, some of it was stupid, like too much death too fast!

Ive always love'd his book's it sent me far away worlds and I got to see things though the main story tellers eye's as always his work is wonderful . his work is better then any movie or tv show out there I challage anyone to read his books and if they dont like it they probley have bad taste . ya I am a teen 22 years of age but as a kid these books saved my life. I felt like I was in another world a better one.

Its an OK book considering its his second published work. It sounds like he threw it together quickly and didnt think a lot about it. If you want to read a really awesome book by him read The Midnight Club

Considering the "Cheerleader" series, (from the mid-1980's), this book, written by the now popular Christopher Pike is acceptable. What Pike fans need to remember is that the young adult genre was not as varied and as open then as it is now. Pike wrote a book that was mediocre, but the entire series is less than mediocre--so that is A-OK! I originally read this book when it was published (as a seventh or eighth grader) and continue to read Pike to this day.

THis story begin at the 100000 b.c where JEsus Christ haven't exist. Whoever read this book suck! So dont read it.

Having previously read two outstanding books by Christopher Pike, "The Cold One" and "The Season of Passage", I eagerly picked up "The Listeners", thinking that I was getting another great read. Unfortunately, while this book has its moments, it pales in comparison.

The book gets off to a promising start, and the premise of the book is pretty straight forward. An FBI agent, David Connor, reeling from a bust gone bad, is asked to go undercover as a magazine reporter and investigate a channeling group called the Listeners, who channel an entity called the "Big Mind" which is a sort of collective consciousness, coupled with ancestral memory.

Central to the Listeners existence is a set of identical twins, Lucy and Vera Temple, beautiful, young women who possess great psychic ability. When David meets them, there develops a mutual attraction between David and Lucy, and they ultimately fall in love. Little do they know that a great evil is waiting for them. Something primeval is lurking below the conscious surface, ready to spring forth and rock their world. When it does so, David is called upon to make the ultimate sacrifice to save mankind. What happens at the end, however, is sure to surprise the reader.

Well, i must say, that this wasn't one of his best works. Beleive me. i've read just about all of his books, and although most of them would obtain a good 5 stars, i'm only giving this 3. Honestly, you'd think he could have a little bit better, yo!