Trashy Teen Fiction

Christene never writes on this blog and I'm thinking about changing the name of it to Tina Vs Tina. I think it has a nice ring to it.
Before there were glittering vampires and kids with lightening bolt scars on their faces there were young adult novel writers who wrote a ten books a year and gave them hokey names and pictures on the covers. Before Stephanie Meyer (bleh) and J.K Rowling there were the other writers who made the youth read. And those writers were: R.L Stein, Christopher Pike, Lois Duncan.
I am taking a moment out of my busy schedual to post a blog about Christopher Pike.
It seems as though the youth of my day and age were divided into two groups. People who liked Christopher Pike and the ones who liked R.L Stein.
And then their were the weirdos who liked Lois Duncan but I'm not even going to waste my energy mentioning them...Wait a second...I just did.
Anyways I always found the R.L Stein books a little more on the juvenile side where as the Christopher Pike ones were darker and more evil. They also mentioned sex in them. Of course there were the younger books which were called the Spooksville Series and I never read any of those ones.
Some of my all time favorite C.P books were: The Weekend (where a group of friends go away and a whole mystery unravels), Last Act (kids put on a play about murder and then one of the leading ladies gets shot), and The Midnight Club (terminally ill kids gather to tell tales or horror and they make a pact that when the first one dies they will contact the others).
When I moved from Vancouver back to Surrey I got rid of some books and for awhile there (approx. 3 minutes) my Christopher Pike books were in the togo pile, but I just couldn't do it. I just didn't have it in me to throw those classic gems out.