The Visitor

By Christopher Pike

Book Overview

Everyone believes Tom to be a strange, but otherwise okay, teenager, despite his white hair, gauntness, and disturbing eyes, but a group of kids begins to suspect that Tom is not really who--or... This description may be from another edition of this product.

• Format: Mass Market Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0671872702
• ISBN13: 9780671872700
• Release Date: November 1995
• Publisher: Simon Pulse
• Length: 162 Pages
• Weight: 0.23 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.5" x 4.2" x 6.7"
• Age Range: 12 years and up
• Grade Range: Grade 7 and higher

Customer Reviews

A Bit Confusing

This book was a little confusing to me but I still like the story. It was also a bit sad.

A huge CP fan

It's been several years since I read this book. But I still remember it, just like I remember all of Christopher Pike's books. I wish I could point out tid bit by tid bit of facts about the book, but as I said it has been several years. I do remember the story at large though and how the book made me feel reading it. It is a great book, full of suspense and dives deeply into CP's endless imagination. It suprised me, even though most CP books do. You come to expect endless twists and turns and some of the most fun you will ever have reading horror novels (that is what I have always considered his books to be, though there are clearly other themes and most are optimistic in the end, though not all..) Because the thing is.. expecting a ton of twists and brain stimulation from his books does not mean you will know what the suprises will consist of.. of that I can assure you. I get nostaglic reading his novels because they bring back times from my life from ages 12 or so through 18 I'd say. After The Hollow Skull or was it The Lost Mind (?) he didn't seem to write like he once did, turning out novel after novel.. and the few works he did publish were harder to find. The Vistor is the story of Mary and Tom. I remember that an accident befalls Tom and Mary grieves and grieves for him. You could really feel her anguish through the pages and now that I have experienced a loss like hers (in no way similar) I know the book would be that much more touching. Mary hopes and dreams of Tom coming back. Then one day he does. But he is not who he once was. I believe Tom was called Jerry at first.. but then was later called Tom? Forgive me if I am wrong. I just had to mention something about this book and how if you are at all interested in any of CP's plots or have read other books you should go out and pick this one up. And be sure to read the others as well.

There are no words. . .

I don't know why this book touched me so much. . .I mean I cried at the ending. The unconditional love of Tom is so beatiful, but I didn't like Mary very much. I mean, she had this guy, and the she had to ruin it- I don't want to spoil aything, but, trust me, this is one of the best books ever written

It was one of the best books I've ever read

It was one of the best books I personally have ever read,(Not that im a loser reading all the time) but I liked the book and I loved the part where she realized she was still a goddess and I had to read it twice to figure it out.