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Title: DIE SOFTLY : DIE SOFTLY by Christopher Pike ISBN: 0-671-69056-6 Publisher: Simon Pulse Pub. Date: 01 April, 1991 Format: Mass Market Paperback Volumes: 1 List Price(USD): $4.50 |
Average Customer Rating: 4.62 (32 reviews)
Rating: 5
Summary: Great Book
Comment: I've been into his books since last summer and Ive gotten to be very obssessed with his books and I found it interesting when i read that the death of a cheerleader had happened and they didnt exactly understand how and Herb had been interested in taking a couple of pictures of the cheerleaders when they were taking showers and actually got a hold of pictures of how maybe that cheerleader was murdered before tha car accident... this book was great it had alot of confusion on who dunnit and everything you would barely guess who did I give it 5 stars because it was great and gave you enough details and all to understand the story it wasnt provoking at all if it was well that why its a young adult novel!! It was still a great book another masterpiece for Mr. Pike!
Rating: 5
Summary: Awesome
Comment: Well I personally loved DIE SOFTLY. It is about a boy named Herb who is the school photographer after his BFF, Sammie, is kicked because the pictures she took stunk. She gives him the idea of rigging a camera in the girls' locker room showers to catch so nude pictures of the cheerleaders' and hand them out to everyone. Herb takes it and get the pictures. When he gets the roll and developes it, the cheerleader in them is murdered in one of the pictures. It looks as if the love of his life, Alexa, has killed Lisa, her best friend. I appears as if earlier Lisa is killed in a car crash, but only Alexa knows the truth. She claims to Herb that she is innocent and didn't kill her best friend while she tries to seduce Herb. What really happened??? Read to find out.
Rating: 3
Summary: Just say no to drugs and women
Comment: Let me start by saying that I read this book when I was in Jr. high, and yet, so many years later, I still consider it to be one of the best horror books for adolescents, though perhaps that is not saying much. For its genre, I would give it a five, but compared with a million other books, it deserves only a three and a half. It is better than many adult books, sadly.
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Die Softly is about Herb, a senior high school student who is in love with Alexa Close. He has a best friend Theo, who likes to shoot at coke cans which perhaps he pretends are a particular classmate he hates, a coke addict named Lisa, Alexa's best friend. Herb and Theo also have another friend named Samantha (Sammie) Smith, who has an intense dislike for the cheerleaders at their highschool, particularly Alexa and Lisa, and advises Herb to humiliate them by taking pictures of the cheerleaders while in the shower. Herb happens to be an aspiring photographer.
He feels guilty at being a peeping Tom, yet Herb's curiosity takes over.
The day after Herb sets up his camera in the shower room, there is a horrible car accident involving Lisa. It appears that, while being high on coke, she careened off a cliff, and went up in flames. This accident is eerily like an accident involving Theo's older brother Roger, six monthes ago, involving the same cliff and the same drug. Theo always felt that his brother's "accident" was Lisa's fault because she was the one addicted to cocaine and was not exactly the best influence on anyone. By the way, Alexa and Lisa are referred to as the "sugar sisters". Now Lisa has died in exactly the same way.
When Herb gets the pictures in his camera developed, he learns something else. Maybe Lisa really didn't get into an accident. Maybe she was killed in the showers and then her murderer placed her in her car and shoved her car off the cliff in order to cover up the crime.
Christopher Pike writes well for teenagers, as long as they don't mind the sick plots, but I find his stories to be very much like various movies and television shows. For books, they are, for the most part, at a lower level, but the plots are actually pretty good. And he does have some great dialogue and interesting characters.
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Title: Chain Letter by Christopher Pike ISBN: 038089968X Publisher: Avon Pub. Date: 01 May, 1986 List Price(USD): $4.99 |
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Title: The RETURN (REMEMBER ME 2) : THE RETURN by Christopher Pike ISBN: 0671872656 Publisher: Simon Pulse Pub. Date: 01 September, 1994 List Price(USD): $5.99 |
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Title: The ETERNAL ENEMY by Christopher Pike ISBN: 0671745093 Publisher: Simon Pulse Pub. Date: 01 May, 1993 List Price(USD): $4.50 |
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Title: MASTER OF MURDER by Christopher Pike ISBN: 0671690590 Publisher: Simon Pulse Pub. Date: 01 July, 1992 List Price(USD): $4.99 |
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Title: MONSTER by Christopher Pike ISBN: 0671745077 Publisher: Simon Pulse Pub. Date: 01 November, 1992 List Price(USD): $3.99 |
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