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Remember Me (Remember Me #1)

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SHE DIDN'T UNDERSTAND THAT SHE WAS DEAD.

When Shari Cooper awoke at home after being at her girlfriend's birthday party, her family acted like she wasn't there. They didn't hear a thing she said. They wouldn't even look at her. Then the call came from the hospital. Her father and brother paled. Her mother started to cry. Shari didn't know what was wrong. Not until she fol

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Mass Market Paperback, 230 pages

Published April 1st 1989 by Pocket Books

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Jan 14, 2011 Paula Phillips rated it 5 of 5 stars · review of another edition

Do you remember what the supernatural used to be like before the world of Vampires and Werewolves and even Zombies took over our world of modern day literature ?
Ghosts were the scary thing, things going bump in the night, spirits being summoned out of Ouija Boards and seances occuring. In Christopher Pike's Remember Me, it brought back some good memories of a time when scary stories just had ghosts and a simple storyline-nothing more as according to the cover, at the time released this book was...more

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Feb 24, 2013 Mckayla rated it 4 of 5 stars · review of another edition

Shelves: teen-paranormal

I remember the first time I read this book. I was in the fifth grade and all I know is that this book scared me so much that I would read it out in the hallway with the lights on. This was my very first scary book and I loved it. This book introduced me to the the likes of R.L. Stine and other Christopher Pike books, however none are as ever good as the first you read. There were some pretty strange stories out there by those two. I always loved reading but this book introduced me to a whole oth...more

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Jan 18, 2013 Kim Trotter rated it 2 of 5 stars · review of another edition

Shelves: ya, ya-paranormal, about-dead-people

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Aug 18, 2011 Aleksis rated it 5 of 5 stars · review of another edition

Remember Me..... ohhh, a very good book...

It starts off with Shari Cooper - the main character - retelling her life from the other side. She starts off to the night before she went to her friend Beth's party. Little did she know that it would be her last night. She was shoved off the balcony that night and she's determined to find her killer from the other side as she teams-up with Peter - her long-dead friend who died in a motorcycle accident, shows up at her funeral and offers to help her cros...more

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Oct 23, 2010 Jocey rated it 5 of 5 stars · review of another edition

Shelves: 9th-grade-advisory-reading-shelf

Remember Me by Christopher Pike is a book about a girl named Shari Cooper. Shari is a seventeen year old girl who believes she has evrything. She has wonderful parents and a great older brother, Jimmy, and she even has a best friend Jo. Shari attends a party at her friends house one night. She goes to the party happy and complete, but she leaves the party angry and wanting revenge. Shari goes on a journey to find out what happened to her that night and comes out finding things she didn't expect...more

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Jun 16, 2012 Molly rated it 4 of 5 stars · review of another edition

Shelves: 4-stars, ya-lit, guilty-pleasure, rereads

I'm pretty sure I read this for the first time in about 6th grade...and hundreds of times since then. I haven't read it in years (sold my original at a garage sale I'm guessing), but I realized as I re-read it that I still have huge chunks of it memorized. Yikes.

Happily, I feel like the story still pretty much holds up. I remember loving it as an 11-year-old, and I love it still as a nostalgic not-so-11-year-old. This was my favorite of the series. I liked the second one (The Return?) okay, but

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Nov 05, 2011 Carrie Hinkel-Gill rated it 3 of 5 stars · review of another edition

Shelves: mlm-horror-house, personal-interest

As a reader of YA fiction, thrillers and horror, I don't know that this should have been classified as a thriller. Paranormal for the ghosts and stuff, yeah. Mystery for the fact Shari Cooper's goal once she's dead is to solve her own murder, definitely. Spiritual, for the interaction between Shari and Peter - without question. But honestly, this just does not have thriller qualities.

But then again, I'm not part of the target audience.

I do love ghost stories, but what removes the thrill factor...more As a reader of YA fiction, thrillers and horror, I don't know that this should have been classified as a thriller. Paranormal for the ghosts and stuff, yeah. Mystery for the fact Shari Cooper's goal once she's dead is to solve her own murder, definitely. Spiritual, for the interaction between Shari and Peter - without question. But honestly, this just does not have thriller qualities.

But then again, I'm not part of the target audience.

I do love ghost stories, but what removes the thrill factor for me with this book, is the fact the main character, Shari, is indeed a ghost. This is tale about Shari learning to accept that her soul exists separate from her physical body, outside space and time.

Rather than find this book thrilling or even spooky, I feel the merits of this book lie with spirituality, especially in conjunction with Remember Me 2: The Return.

Shari, is a murder victim. Peter, someone else pertinent to the story, is also dead. She knew him in life, and now finds him to be her guide in death. That's all I'll say on the subject. Anymore would give even more away about the plot than the blurb on the back cover already does.

Rather than scary or thrilling, I find Shari's and Peter's journeys to be more spiritual in nature. Sure, there are some scary parts, but that's really a fact of life, isn't it? There are things in life we must face or be crippled by them, and there are things about ourselves we must acknowledge or face if we want the rest of the world to accept us as we are.

The copy of this book I have touted this as more of a scary/thriller. For this fact, I couldn't give it a higher rating because it fell far short of the mark. However, if this were classified/marketed as a paranormal/supernatural spiritual novel, I probably would have given it 4/5 stars.

Because of the marketing, I was expecting something different from this story. What I got wasn't bad, just not what I expected and because I felt it didn't deliver on what it claimed to be, I can only give this story 3/5 stars. (less)

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Jul 30, 2010 Catalina Sennett rated it 3 of 5 stars · review of another edition

ummm okay. I found this book at walmart and reading the back cover, it sounded like a good read. It is a reprint of Pikes Remember me, but it is an omnibus, containing the entire trilogy in one. But sadly the omnibus isnt listed on goodreads so ill review them all here.

The first book, Remember me, was real good. It's about a girl, Shari who falls off a balcony and dies, and comes back as a ghost I guess you would call it. She doesnt know she is dead. I dont wanna give too much of the story away...more

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Jan 19, 2012 Christina Drew rated it 4 of 5 stars · review of another edition

I admit I wad hesitant about reading this trilogy after seeing some of the very negative reviews. Christopher Pike was my favorite author during my early teens though so I decided to give it a chance. I am very happy I did.

Remember Me follows a young girl's path of acceptance following her murder. The reader is introduced to the ghost of Shari Cooper as she struggles to understand her death and the circumstances around it. Along with this story line there is an adventurous mystery, asking the r...more

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Mar 05, 2012 Dana rated it 4 of 5 stars · review of another edition

I read this when I was younger and remembered liking it but didn't remember much else about it. I was hesitant to read it simply because all I could think was that it was no going to live up to my memories of it. However, this book had stood the test of time.

I've got to say, the first couple of chapters are rough, mainly because you go into it realizing what a self centered and stuck up individual the main character is and since it's told from her point of view, this is a bit bothersome. Howeve...more

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Jul 21, 2010 Paul Hamilton rated it 3 of 5 stars

Shelves: mystery, novel, young-adult

Continuing my foray into Christopher Pike's young adult novels so beloved by my wife, I picked up Remember Me because the back cover copy sounded intriguing. The premise of the story is that it is told from the perspective of Shari Cooper, an eighteen year-old who is dead and wanders the world as a ghost, following the friends she left behind, her family and the world-weary detective assigned to her case who doesn't seem to believe she actually committed suicide.

Remember Me is fabulously paced;...more Continuing my foray into Christopher Pike's young adult novels so beloved by my wife, I picked up Remember Me because the back cover copy sounded intriguing. The premise of the story is that it is told from the perspective of Shari Cooper, an eighteen year-old who is dead and wanders the world as a ghost, following the friends she left behind, her family and the world-weary detective assigned to her case who doesn't seem to believe she actually committed suicide.

Remember Me is fabulously paced; unlike Final Friends there aren't any wasted scenes here. Shari comes through as a flawed but likable protagonist and though his introduction is brief and somewhat awkward, Peter, Shari's deceased friend from earlier in high school and guide to her afterlife, eventually becomes a likable character as well.

It struck me that some of the conceptual topics that come up are fairly heady dealing as the book does with life after death, but Pike manages to skirt them with a minimalism that works to the story's favor. The book is, I suppose by its nature, very melancholy at times although it's nearly always deftly handled and manages to even be somewhat moving in places.

What holds the book back from greatness are two principal elements: One is that the marquee sequence in the book seems to be the part where Shari wakes up after the accident in her bed and goes downstairs to breakfast, not realizing she's dead or incorporeal. Her family naturally ignores her and she has to watch and listen as they receive the call from the hospital, share the bad news with each other, visit the morgue to identify the body and begin their grieving process. It's supposed to be a highlight sequence but because there's been so much exposition leading up to this point, we can't share in Shari's confusion and growing horror since we know already what has happened and that deflates what could have been a powerful opening sequence.

The other thing is that the ending, while satisfying on some level, is shamefully overwrought with practically every writer's tool and contrivance tossed in all at once to create what still amounts to a flimsy motive for Shari's untimely death. Even the epilogue that tries to ground the story with a twist—maybe intended to be chilling, maybe not—is unnecessary. It's not a bad conclusion by any stretch, but you can see how hard it tries to package everything up and that's kind of a turn-off.(less)

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May 03, 2011 Kellee rated it 5 of 5 stars · review of another edition

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1. The main conflicts, well one major one is, Shari Cooper died, and she knows she was murdered. So through out the book, the conflicts are her finding out she is dead, how she gets used to "the other side", The Shadow, then all the conflicts after she comes back as a Wanderer in a new body.

2. To me, what makes this book unique is the way the author describes the "other side" and all the conflicts, there is always something to keep you guessing, you never really know...more

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May 12, 2013 Antonia rated it 2 of 5 stars · review of another edition

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Jun 26, 2012 Heather rated it 4 of 5 stars · review of another edition

Read it a LONG time ago and it was good. I think I was in middle school. His adult books are good too.

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Oct 30, 2010 Sarra Cannon rated it 5 of 5 stars

Shelves: sarra-s-favorites

When I was teen, Christopher Pike was the first author I searched for in the book stores. If he had a new book out, I would do anything to make sure I had it. In fact, years later, I still have those books. Remember Me, though, stands out among his books. Just the idea of a girl telling her story as a ghost who was murdered. I loved it. When I think about Pike's books, this is the first one that comes to mind. I know they recently re-released this book, and I think even though it's an old book,...more

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Apr 21, 2013 Melissa rated it 5 of 5 stars · review of another edition

Shelves: 5-stars, books-i-own, favourite, fiction, mystery, paranormal, part-of-series, read-2013, realistic-fiction, tv-show

It has been a while since i have done a book review, forgive me for any spelling mistakes or at time when i don't make sense! :D

Let me start of by saying that this is one of the best books i have read in such a long time.
I am hating myself right now. I buy so many books, and this one i brought about a year and a half ago and it has been sitting on my book shelf ever since. I just hate myself for not picking it up sooner.

I literally loved everything about this book. Here is why.
1. It Flowed
From...more It has been a while since i have done a book review, forgive me for any spelling mistakes or at time when i don't make sense! :D

Let me start of by saying that this is one of the best books i have read in such a long time.
I am hating myself right now. I buy so many books, and this one i brought about a year and a half ago and it has been sitting on my book shelf ever since. I just hate myself for not picking it up sooner.

I literally loved everything about this book. Here is why.
1. It Flowed
From the beginning of the story right up until the very last page, i was really into this book and couldn't bring myself to put it down. It got me right from page one. The story itself is so well written and laid out. The main character Shari begins the story speaking to the reader, telling them about her life before she died. The way it was done was as if Shari and me were old friends.
The Characters
With the book being only about 300 pages long, the only characters that we really get to know are the two main ones being Shari and Peter. The rest are just back characters that don't show up in much of the story. But the two main characters just worked so well together and they do become to be someone that you really know.
The Story
The whole story really got me along with some of the conversations. (Lets just say, my eyes did tear up on one or two occasions!!). The story and who it played out really keeps the reader on the edge of the seat, trying guess and work out where the story is going - as it did with me.

There was only one problem i found while reading the book was that, some of the passages were repetitive, i had read them before. And some of the dialogue that was used between Shari and her friends would not be how teenagers spoke to each other. It isn't how i would anyway. But that could be because the book was released in 1994 and that is how they spoke them. I wouldn't know as i had just been born in 1994. But it was no biggie - it didn't stop me from loving the book!
Here is to hoping the sequel is just as good!
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Jan 06, 2012 Tiara rated it 3 of 5 stars · review of another edition

Shelves: horror, young-adult

Young adult horror. Shari Cooper dies one night while at a party. She doesn't realize she's dead until the next day when her family acts like she isn't even there. Her death is ruled as suicide, but she knows she was murdered, and she sets out with the help of another ghost, Peter, to solve her murder.

Considering other young adult horror writers who were writing around the same time, this was a good novel despite some corny elements. Yes, it was very cliched. Yes, it was cheesy at points. But it...more

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May 23, 2012 Elizabeth B. rated it 5 of 5 stars · review of another edition

I read this book first in 7th grade and many times more recently. To this day (a countless number of days since 7th grade), it is one of my favorite quick-reads.
I would recommend it for anyone that enjoys a little mystery and suspense. There are sad parts and parts that will upset you (in the best way).
A book a lot like it (although this one is a quicker read, as I have pointed out) is Elizabeth Chandler's Kissed By An Angel. They are definately in the same genre, although Kissed By An Angel i...more

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Jun 08, 2012 Mixedbagreader rated it 4 of 5 stars · review of another edition

Shelves: ya, horror-thriller

BOOK OF MY CHILDHOOD. Explaining the appeal of Christopher Pike novels to someone who never read them as a preteen is, I find, much like trying to explain the awesomeness of something like Grease 2 to a 30-something adult who never watched the movie as a child. It's so wrapped up in nostalgia and how unique it felt like when you were young, sheltered, and hyper-emotional.

Of all of his novels, though, I think that Remember Me still stands up the best (alongside Fall Into Darkness and Last Act), a...more

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Jan 02, 2012 Rosa rated it 4 of 5 stars · review of another edition

Shelves: fantasy, ghosts, library-owns, murder, paranormal, series, young-adult

I read a lot of good reviews on this one, and I thought it was truly genius. The way things worked out, it was completely unexpected and very well written.
One thing ticked me off at first though, and that was the main character. To me, she seemed a bit selfish and snobby. A privileged girl with anything she could want.

But then she went all nice and gooey. Great.
No, she did change a lot throughout the book, but one thing did not change. Her obsession with her green eyes. I mean sure, it ends up...more

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Nov 08, 2010 Esther rated it 4 of 5 stars · review of another edition

Wow. Amazing book. This book shows the power of love and dreams. Sounds tacky, I know but it's true. Shari Cooper died and refused to be forgotten. She worked very hard towards her goal, which was to find her killer. Even when her other deceased friend told her that it was futile and senseless to search for her killer, she refused to listen.She worked very hard toward her goal and eventually found out who her killer was.It shows the power of love because Shari Cooper's love for her brother never...more

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Apr 14, 2011 Susan rated it 4 of 5 stars · review of another edition

Remember Me by Christopher Pike is still my favorite book by him. I read the book when it was originally released and recently found a new copy that contains this book and the two stories that followed. Even on re-reading the book, I found that I still enjoyed the story as much as I did the first time. The book tells the story of Shari Cooper who went to a party at a friend's house and woke up the next moring dead. The police and her friends and family believe that she killed herself but Shari k...more

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Apr 25, 2008 Lara rated it 3 of 5 stars · review of another edition

Shelves: fantasy-sci-fi, young-adult, just-for-fun

This is the story of a girl who is a ghost but doesn't know it. When she figures out that her family thinks she committed suicide, she must solve her own murder. Kinda fun. I did a monologue in drama from it.

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May 02, 2012 Dianna Hardy rated it 5 of 5 stars · review of another edition

I remember LOVING this book. I read it almost twenty years ago, so this review is from memory. I was hooked and I couldn't guess the plot. I thought it was one thing, then it turned out to be something else, and even then, you thought that would be the end, but there was another twist in it.

I think I read all three books (I think there were three?), but it is the first one I remember the most. I really felt for the lead girl, and actually remember feeling quite emotional towards the end at what...more

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Jul 16, 2012 Laura Harris rated it 5 of 5 stars · review of another edition

Shelves: laura-s-books

This is one of the books that has shaped who I am and what I read now on a regular basis. As a sever dyslexic this was one of the first real books I ever read from cover to cover on my own at the age of 13. I loved the characters and the supernatural elements in an ever day world, it was the first time I had ever encountered urban fantasy and after this book I actively sought out other books which were similar. When I discovered a few years later that there were two sequels I devoured these with...more

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Jul 30, 2011 Merredith rated it 4 of 5 stars · review of another edition Recommends it for: kids age 10-adult

Recommended to Merredith by: My 6th grade teacher

Shelves: crime-mysteries, 4-or-5-stars

Did you ever read Christopher Pike as a kid? When I was in 6th grade, my teacher, Ms Gamage set up a book swap in class for our group called the Dweebs (a name i LOATHED) & i got to read all the christopher pike and similar horror/mystery book sale books my parents couldnt afford. LOVED. I particularly remembered this one, a story about a teen who was killed and spends the whole book as a ghost, trying to figure out who killed her. I decided to reread it all these years later, and it didnt d...more

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Jun 14, 2012 Rob rated it 4 of 5 stars · review of another edition

The story of Shari Cooper will go down as one of my favourites from my pre-teenage reading years. While Pike is known for his wide assortment of mild, mediocre horror novels, this one breaks the mould (or at least I thought so as a 13 year old). Narrated by a girl who discovers she is dead, the novel approaches the topic of life after death but also manages to wrap the reader in an elusive murder mystery. I remember reading this at night by a small reading light, scared to death at some scenes....more

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Aug 21, 2011 Jennifer rated it 4 of 5 stars

Shelves: teen, wrote-review

When I was a teen, many moons ago, I was a Christopher Pike addict. This was one of the best ones. I quit reading Pike’s books once they hit a point where it was sequel after sequel. (Remember Me was fine being a lone book and not the first installment of a trilogy.) This is one of the few “teen” books that I kept once I outgrew that phase. Twenty years later and I still have it packed away in a box of books that I don’t want to part with because I’ve enjoyed rereading them but don’t have room o...more

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May 21, 2012 Jen rated it 5 of 5 stars · review of another edition

Shari Cooper is dead, and narrating her story from beyond the grave.

But who pushed her off the balcony? Why did someone want to murder her? Throughout the course of the book, Shari finds out the identity of her killer, meets up with an old friend who died in a motorcycle accident (the addition of Peter is a lovely romantic twist) and discovers secrets left buried since her birth.

A really good, classic Pike story. Shari is a doll, Peter is amusing and sexy, and the denouement is satisfying. I sa...more

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Jan 12, 2012 BurningYourBooks rated it 4 of 5 stars

Shelves: ya

I can't believe I'm giving this many stars to a Christopher Pike novel.

Let me make that clearer - I love Pike. He was my main groove back in middle school and high school, and even though his books can be a bit overly uncomplicated at times, he has an innate ability to present some rather complicated and fantastical concepts to teenagers in a way that never seemed preachy or condescending. And despite that fact that he was a grown man and I have since become a young woman, he has a way of captu...more

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“Relationships are mysterious. We doubt the positive qualities in others, seldom the negative. You will say to your partner: do you really love me? Are you sure you love me? You will ask this a dozen times and drive the person nuts. But you never ask: are you really mad at me? Are you sure you’re angry? When someone is angry, you don’t doubt it for a moment. Yet the reverse should be true. We should doubt the negative in life, and have faith in the positive.” — 559 people liked it

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