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The PikeCast: A Book Club Podcast On Christopher Pike

The PikeCast: A Book Club Podcast On Christopher Pike

By: Cassie & Cooper
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 The PikeCast is an in-depth discussion of the work of YA horror author Christopher Pike. Like your favorite book club, in each episode, we break down one of his novels and discuss it from a modern perspective as well as looking through our teenage eyes at the violence, sex, and goofiness that was so prevalent in his writing.Cassie & Cooper Art Literary History & Criticism
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  • The Midnight Club - Ep 10: Midnight

    The Midnight Club - Ep 10: Midnight
    Feb 10 2023

    The PikeCast concludes their watchthrough of Netflix's The Midnight Club series by Mike Flanagan based on the works of Christopher Pike. This week is Episode 10: Midnight.

    Dr. Stanton interrupts the ritual, saving Ilonka and the other women's lives, but Shasta escapes. Ilonka realizes that Shasta tried to use her for a murder-suicide ritual that Shasta was hoping would extend her own lifespan. Dr. Stanton believes that in the past, Shasta/Julia's cancer spontaneously regressed, but Shasta attributed it to magic instead of luck, and she is trying to do the ritual again because cancer returned. Ilonka finally starts to accept her impending death. Sandra goes home after tearful goodbyes to her friends. Amesh starts seeing the shadow following him. Spencer's mother visits him on Family Day. Kevin breaks up with his girlfriend in order to pursue a relationship with Ilonka. Ilonka discovers that Anya's broken ballerina statue has become whole again; she reports this to the Midnight Club, who tentatively take this as a sign from Anya. Kevin finishes his story about the teenage serial killer, and Ilonka finishes her story about the witch, with the rest of the Midnight Club helping her tell the ending. The episode ends with the reveal that the old man and woman Ilonka and Kevin have been seeing are the original founders of the Brightcliffe building and that Dr. Stanton has a tattoo of the five-goddess cult.

    Be sure to check out Mike Flanagan's tumblr post about the plans for Season 2.
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    1 hr and 40 mins
  • The Midnight Club - Ep 9: The Eternal Enemy

    The Midnight Club - Ep 9: The Eternal Enemy
    Jan 20 2023
    1 hr and 38 mins
  • The Midnight Club - Ep 8: Road to Nowhere

    The Midnight Club - Ep 8: Road to Nowhere
    Dec 23 2022
    Messy & Cassie's Fury.

    The PikeCast continues their watchthrough of Netflix's The Midnight Club series by Mike Flanagan based on the works of Christopher Pike. This week is Episode 8: Road to Nowhere

    Ilonka confronts Dr. Stanton about what she overheard. Dr. Stanton swears her to secrecy, but Ilonka tells Kevin. Ilonka believes she's the one who's been cured by the ritual and tells Shasta, who invites her to join her commune. Spencer visits his mother to get closure on her disowning him for his sexuality. Midnight Club is canceled because Dr. Stanton locked the library. Natsuki, who is dating Amesh, tells him her planned Midnight Club story about a girl who gives a ride to a pair of hitchhikers. Ilonka goes to the building's secret floor where she sees the old woman; when Ilonka touches the old woman, the vision transforms into Kevin.
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    1 hr and 14 mins
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This whole podcast is such a blast! I love being able to reread these books from my past and listen to such fun people dissect them. I have enjoyed every episode!

So much fun!

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I love that they go though on book per podcast of Christopher Pike. You get a nice recap of the story, thoughts on the book and great banter between the hosts.

Memory Lane

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I love that you all are going back to review these books. I did not like to read growing up, but Pike was the only author of books I read. I would stay up until 3 am reading everything of his I could. Sad part is I no longer have these beloved books. While I love the deep dive into the books, I would find it helpful to give more detail as to what happens plot wise, as trying to remember all the small details of the characters falls flat for me. It is really hard to find/buy these classics without spending a ton of money, please help by giving a more detailed description of the journey of the characters. It feels a bit jumbled just jumping from character to character through multiple points throughout the whole book, makes it confusing and hard follow what is actually happening in the story.

Love but needs more focus

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I really hope they are not done with this series, I need alllllll the Christopher Pike books! They have brought back so much nostalgia and even got me back into reading again after so many years of being “too busy” for it… Hoping this review reaches the podcasters cause I NEED MORE!! Please and thank you :)

Love it!!

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loved these books as a young kid. really brings me back I love it and want more.

yesss my childhood

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I love it but I can't relate to being scared. I never experienced that. Sorry

nice overviews

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Found the podcast and enjoyed several episodes. The episodes discussing Remember Me 1 and 2 are funny. And the episode of Remember Me 3 and The Starlight Crystal are meh.

The episodes really start to drag by the time they discuss The Starlight Crystal and the next several books. I started getting really irritated listening to the main person behind the podcast. Suddenly things he lists as problematic go from being interesting and funny to be a long winded discussion. I couldn't tell if he was being sarcastic or being serious at times. Even the others in the discussion seemed confused.
I lost interest in several episodes because the discussion would drag out forever .
The discussions started to get very flat by the time I listened to the episode about The Starlight Crystal.

After this episode some of the people involved just nitpick every detail to death, you know like Riding a dead horse to death.
As an example, in The Starlight Crystal episode, a decision that the main character makes is problematic. Huh?
It seemed like a major event of the plot that had to happen to lead the main plot and subplots to a conclusion.
It sounded like it was problematic to the host of the podcast. I still didn't really understand his explanation and just gave up on the podcast with that episode either way.
The book is not the best Pike book, and has some plotting issues, but I found the criticisms and discussions just got over the top about this YA novel.

The dissection of every part of the plot just stopped being funny and became promotions for the podcasters and guests to mostly discuss their own novels.
I highly recommend the episodes I listed. The Remember Me series, The Last Vampire series, Monster, Die Softly, and Master of Murder. Gary Hendrix is the best part of the Remember Me reviews.

Skip the rest of the episodes.

Starts out good. But ends being awful.

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