Hollow Skull [Library Binding]

Christopher Pike (Author)

Book Description

Publication Date: February 1998

There is something wrong with the people of Madison--something has entered their skulls, pierced their souls and changed them into aliens who want to transform humanity into a nightmarish race that exists only to inflict pain. .

--This text refers to an out of print or unavailable edition of this title.

Product Details

• Reading level: Ages 12 and up
  
• Library Binding
• Publisher: Topeka Bindery (February 1998)
• Language: English
• ISBN-10: 0613079760
• ISBN-13: 978-0613079761
• Product Dimensions: 8.2 x 2.7 x 0.8 inches
• Shipping Weight: 6.2 ounces (View shipping rates and policies)
• Average Customer Review: 3.8 out of 5 stars  See all reviews (28 customer reviews)
• Amazon Best Sellers Rank: #10,596,409 in Books (See Top 100 in Books)

More About the Author

Christopher Pike is the author of over forty teen thrillers, including series REMEMBER ME, FINAL FRIENDS and CHAIN LETTER.

Customer Reviews

Most Helpful Customer Reviews

4 of 4 people found the following review helpful:

3.0 out of 5 stars Yet another classic Pike novel, June 14, 1998

By A Customer

This review is from: The HOLLOW SKULL (Mass Market Paperback)

This book begins simply set in the small town of Madison in the middle of the desert. There 4 friends discover a black puddle at the bottom of a mine shaft. The mine has been closed down for years and is even being investigated by a group of scientists. When one of the boys is infected with the black liquid he begins to change, for the worse. He becomes a robot like monster who eats glass and kills his girlfriend and buries her in the desert. Like all Pike novels there is a lot of blood and gore. Then he threw in the Sio character and things got confusing. The alien who wanted to destroy humanity for no other reason than her own pleasure and to see men suffer. The climax and finale of the novel are a little predictable and not unexpected. This book would probably intrigue young adults who are looking for a little scare, but this is not Pike's best horror novel to date.

2 of 2 people found the following review helpful:

4.0 out of 5 stars An original twist on an old plot, May 2, 2009

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Genevieve Hayes (Australia) - See all my reviews
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This review is from: The HOLLOW SKULL (Mass Market Paperback)

When the residents of a small town in Nevada start behaving strangely, after a group of teenagers stumble across a mysterious black liquid in the bottom of an old mine, 17 year old Cass starts to suspect that her neighbours may, in fact, be possessed by aliens bent on world domination.

I am 28 years old and, even though I am well out of the supposed target age group for Christopher Pike's books, I still find myself coming back to them again and again. To date, I have read around 30 of his books and own all of them. The reason why I keep coming back to Pike's books, and not those of fellow teen horror writer R.L. Stine, for example, is because Pike treats his audience and his teenage characters as intelligent adults. In "Hollow Skull", as in Pike's other books, Pike provides readers with an action driven plot reminiscent of a Hollywood horror movie, only deeper and better thought out. Admittedly "Hollow Skull" is somewhat derivative of "Invasion of the Body Snatchers" (even Pike seems to acknowledge this), but Pike supplies a back story to this familiar plot that makes this story an original work in its own right.

This is not my favourite of Pike's novels, but it did keep me entertained for the week that I was reading it and by the end of that week I was genuinely hooked. Both new Pike readers and fans of Pike's other works should enjoy this book.

2 of 2 people found the following review helpful:

5.0 out of 5 stars A good book that makes you think., June 29, 1998

By A Customer

This review is from: The HOLLOW SKULL (Mass Market Paperback)

I do not agree with the other reveiws of this book. I think it's time that we start thinking while reading a book. It's not that hard. Mr. Pike did leave a few dead ends, but that just gives the reader a chance to be creative! I liked this, it was just as good as all his others. I think the author is just changing his style of writing with his more recent books, and that doesn't mean they aren't good. This book has a certain feeling of a bigger presence, with Sio and all. It makes you feel that there is someone watching, which is a comforting thought. Even if this someone wants to destroy mankind...