Now this is just SAD.

[conuly]

Christopher Pike has a new book out. You may remember him from such forgettable tripe of your teen years as... as... well, I forget.

Point is that the book is full of easily checked inaccuracies. For example, he placed a random desert in the heavily religious nation of Turkey, the capital of which is Istanbul. (At least it's not Constantinople, right?)

I would've put it down after Istanbul (the real capital, of course, is Ankara), but I'm strict about this.

This poor girl persevered until she was fed up enough to write a ranting review of it, prompting "one of Christopher Pike's editors" to come by and flame her. His own reviews are... effusive, to say the least.

Sadly, it turns out that Michael Brite is, in fact, Christopher Pike (omg i am so surprised)... or else a seriously pathological liar. And he admits to having multiple accounts, which explains some of the other glowing reviews out there. I was wondering who these folks were who kept popping up to claim that whichever Pike book it is is better than various classics of literature. Now we know.

It's pathetic enough for an author to do this once, under one assumed name, but repeatedly? I have no words to describe how unbelievably, unbearably sad that is.

Also, I had no idea this made it to Fandom_Wank.

Comments

[delphi]

Wow. I was a huge fan of Christopher Pike's books when I was in elementary school (although I was disappointed and squicked when I picked them up as an adult). I seem to remember the biographical blurb on his books used to be something like: "Christopher Pike enjoys hanging around the YA section in bookstores trying to convince people he is in fact Christopher Pike."

[conuly]

Apparently the about the author on at least one of them said that his hobby was going into bookstores and making sure his books were prominently displayed.

After this little snitfit, I can believe it.