![]() ![]() Indeed, new audiences (the ones we in education call “digital natives”) might not even understand the characters’ rationales for action without being able to step back in time and forget what they take for granted. But a lot of these books were originally written twenty years ago or more, when the absence of technology and communications wasn’t something that needed to be addressed to explain why these bastards weren’t better informed. Fortunately, he’s written more than a couple continuations that will link together into a handy packaged bind-up. We need something big and beefy to show that we’re Serious About Literature even as we read about murderous insane girls. It’s the twenty-first century now, and no self-respecting teen would be caught dead reading a pocket-sized paperback. So if Simon & Schuster is going back to the well for Pike’s vampire books, what’s stopping them from bringing back other stories from their one-time best-selling young adult author? Form factor, perhaps. ![]()
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