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Weekend
The weekend in Mexico sounded like a dream vacation. Four guys, five girls -- and a gorgeous oceanside mansion all to themselves. It should have been perfect.
Except nothing was going the way they'd planned. There was the girl upstairs who was fighting for her life. The phone lines that went dead. And the explosion in the garage that could have killed them all.
But not eve...more
Except nothing was going the way they'd planned. There was the girl upstairs who was fighting for her life. The phone lines that went dead. And the explosion in the garage that could have killed them all.
But not eve...more
Paperback, 240 pages
Published
September 1st 2004
by Scholastic Paperbacks
(first published January 1st 1986)
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Jan 08, 2008
Kelly
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2 of 5 stars
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nostalgia hunters
Recommended to Kelly by:
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I thought about reviewing this book by challenging questionable plot points and analyzing the deeper meaning of the old man's parable in the context of the creation myths of the world, dissecting the family relationships and romances as one would the great tragedies of Shakespeare. Where would you place the character of Bert on a scale of Sancho Panza and Steinbeck's Lenny? Do the rattlesnakes in this novel represent the same thing as Didion's rattlesnakes? Is Sol a Latino Holden Caulfield?
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Back when a Porsche cost $40,000 Pike wrote this book about guilt and accusation. A group of friends go to Mexico to stay in the Carlton Castle which their friend Robin has been living in since she drank poison at a party the year before where all that are going to Mexico were at. The poison caused her kidneys to fail and she has been living in the Carlton Castle which her father owns since she was released from the hospital. The weekend turns into a guessing game of who really poisoned her that...more
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This book was about a group of friends hanging out. also a chance to see robin who is very sick. this was suppose to be the weekend where they were going to have a great time. but things go wrong. people dont show, an explosion, a possible death and more. can they survive?
i have a text-to-movie connection. this was like a movie i saw. they rented a cabin with a bunch of friends but them things so wrong. people started to get sick. then people started dying. basically they were simiilar because...more
i have a text-to-movie connection. this was like a movie i saw. they rented a cabin with a bunch of friends but them things so wrong. people started to get sick. then people started dying. basically they were simiilar because...more
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I used to love Christopher Pike, so I enjoyed being a bit nostalgic in choosing one of his titles for this genre. "Weekend" is the tale of the seniors of Hoover High School in the days before graduation. Shani and her closest friends have been invited to spend the weekend in Mexico relaxing at a friend's vacation home. What was supposed to be a fun weekend with the boys, turns into something more sinister when strange, bad things start to happen. Cue the scary music. The characters are vivid and...more
"Weekend" was one of Christopher Pike's first books to be published and there are very few supernatural aspects to it unlike some of his later books. The basic premise of the book is that there was an “accident” to a beautiful young teen who doesn’t actually die, but is now very ill. Then the very people who were with her when the accident occurred get invited to a weekend party at a luxurious mansion on the Mexican coast. Whilst there, various strange incidents occur, and a couple of people att...more
i read Weekend as an IR book. this book was about a group of friends hanging out. also a chance to see robin who is very sick. this was suppose to be the weekend where they were going to have a great time. but things go wrong. people dont show, an explosion, a possible death and more. can they survive?
i have a text-to-movie connection. this was like a movie i saw. they rented a cabin with a bunch of friends but them things so wrong. people started to get sick. then people started dying. basica...more
i have a text-to-movie connection. this was like a movie i saw. they rented a cabin with a bunch of friends but them things so wrong. people started to get sick. then people started dying. basica...more
I'm thirty but I've been a huge fan of Pike since I was a teenager and as much as I love Young Adult fiction I haven't read him in a while so this was a nice treat after so many years. I still remember all the novels I read from him and I simply loved his Last Vampire series so after all that time I'm happy to read his stuff again, a bit silly and naïve here and there but solid when it comes to intrigue while still being fun and intense at the same time! Weekend is the author's second novel and...more
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I chose to read Weekend for my March Re-Read Challenge. It has been damn near close to twenty years since I last read this book. I was only twelve or thirteen at the time and Christopher Pike was one of my favorite authors. I have to be honest I didn't remember much about the plot or the characters in Weekend. When I got the book, I was shocked to see how short it was. It is a little bit smaller than a category romance, ending at 230 pages. I guess when your younger books can seem a lot bigger....more
Eight Hoover High seniors (Shani Tucker, Park Jacomini, Kerry Ladd, Angie Houston, Sol Celaya, Lena Carlton, Bert Billings, and Flynn Powers) all make plans to travel down the California coast to Mexico and spend the weekend in Lena and her sister's large family vacation home.
Residing in the mansion is Robin Carlton, once an active teenager and their close friend, but now a shut-in. She is slowly dying from permanent kidney damage that resulted from her "accidentally" ingesting a large amount o...more
Residing in the mansion is Robin Carlton, once an active teenager and their close friend, but now a shut-in. She is slowly dying from permanent kidney damage that resulted from her "accidentally" ingesting a large amount o...more
Classic Pike. Christopher Pike novels are very rare nowadays so I was pretty hyped when I saw this on a second hand bookstore. As usual, Pike did not fail to deliver an amazing twist to this young adult mystery. The characters felt like intimate friends in the long run. The ending is definitely unexpected. It even strays from the usual endings of many mystery novels. Of course, what makes it different is something you have to find out. Perfect summer read!
i enjoyed this book. around the second chapter, a line struck me and i remembered that i had read it some ten years ago. but i only remembered that one line, so it was like reading it for the first time. it was the part about how the girl didn't have any tan lines so she must have been sunbathing nude.
it was quite suspenseful, and i would recommend to anyone that wants a quick semi-horror read.
it was quite suspenseful, and i would recommend to anyone that wants a quick semi-horror read.
This realistic fiction book was scary. It's about a group of friends who go to the beach. When strange things start to happen, the group is forced to accuse each other of those weird happenings. I liked this book because it was kind of scary and I'm into those types of books. If you like books about death, sickness, mystery, medicine, best friends, and surfing, then this book is for you.
I'm not sure when I read this, I wanna say around 1997... but lets just say i read the shit out of my copy that I had to start borrowing from the library. It's so weird this was one of my favorite two books ever when I was a pre-teen. Seriously, this was number two back then. I still remember just about everything about it too. :P
I unfortunatly read both Weekend and Slumber Party by Christopher Pike one right after the other. I really enjoyed the Slumber Party because I read it first;unfortunatly, Weekend seemed too similar to really enjoy the story line. Both stories contained revenge, a weekend with unsupervised teenagers, and someone who was previously hurt. It was not a smart choice to combined this two stories into one titled To Die For. It made them seem like he changed the characters names and the storyline slight...more
There's nothing better than an author assembling a group of characters/suspects at a far flung locale, and a reader trying to figure out: who done it? For a just slightly higher class rendition of this phenom, please see "Murder on the Orient Express." Thank ye.
When I was in middle school, I ate up every one of the books he had published. I would stay up all night, and then have nightmares, and love it. None of my students get into them, however; I think the reading level is too hard for them or something.
I used to LOVE his books when I was a teenager. OK, so that was a long time ago, but I thought that reading this book would at least be a slice of nostalgia. I think that it might be time to leave old ghosts in the past.
Ok, so Chrisopher Pike isn't THAT bad a writer, but I still can't understand why exactly did I like his book so much when I was a kid. Oh well, weekend is a decend mistery, even though the characters are a juuust a tiny bit stereotyped.
This one was somewhere between 2 and 3 stars for me. It was less predictable than the last Pike book I read, "Slumber Party". It is a fairly short and easy read. But it was hard for me to get into. It didn't get too exciting until well over halfway through.
I read this book in high school. I loved the book and I would love to re-read it now. In fact I think I will start reading some Christopher Pikes' books again!
This one's pretty awful - which didn't stop me from enjoying it. Anyone who uses three exclamation marks should get a better editor.
I really loved this story! It kept me interested the whole time and gets so crazy at times. I'm going to read many more of Pike's books!
Not the kind of story I expect from Pike. Seemed a little messy at times and the plot and scenes just took an overdramatic touch to them.
As a teenager, I probably read this book more times than any other. I loved it and it was just as fun reading it as an adult:)
This book was not my favorite by far, unlikable characters, and a slow turn around. Don't waste your time.
I was obsessed with C. Pike when I was younger and I recently reread this book and I still really liked it!
One of my favorite authors. Some stuff is brilliant, some is just bizarre. Got me started!
The best I've read of Christopher Pike, as well written and suspenseful as the others. Possibly with even more twists.
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Christopher Pike is the pseudonym of Kevin McFadden. He is a bestselling author of young adult and children's fiction who specializes in the thriller genre.
Librarian Note: There is more than one author in the GoodReads database with this name.
McFadden was born in New York but grew up in California where he stills lives in today. A college drop-out, he did factory work, painted houses and programm...more
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Librarian Note: There is more than one author in the GoodReads database with this name.
McFadden was born in New York but grew up in California where he stills lives in today. A college drop-out, he did factory work, painted houses and programm...more
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