Stein or Pike?

[captain_slinky]

I have a theory that pretty much all the females I know that are between 25 and 40 years old (not the Dudes though, for some reason) can be divided in to two categories: Those who loved R.L. Stein, and those who loved Christopher Pike. Seriously.

All the "Geek Girls" I know within that age bracket, those who I like to think of as the "First Wave Geek Girls" (the ones who ushered in the current age of Geek Girl acceptance and domination), got their start with those late-80's/early-90's horror novels in one way or another.

The followers of R.L. Stein tend to be the collectors, the completionists and the data-gatherering nit-pickers. Which episode of Next Gen did Data's cat, "Spot" first appear in? They know, and probably have it on their phone.

The followers of Christopher Pike are the ones more likely to get *in to* the things they geek out over. Cosplay, crafting, fan fic... they know that Data had a cat and can probably recite the poem that he wrote about his cat.

Am I right?

Comments

[captain-slinky.livejournal.com]

Depends on your brand of nit-pickery and fan-fickering? Your Fan-Fic is more likely to spend large chunks of text on detail, or your nit-picking is about character motivations and dialogue rather than physical details. The difference between "Spock would never say that" and "Kirk's shirt was torn in scene 12 but then was miraculously repaired by scene 14, then back to being ripped at the top of the second act".

So for you... which was it? Team Stein or Team Pike?

[snarky-imp.livejournal.com]

Pike by a large margin, though I do have a soft spot for some of my Stine books.

[captain-slinky.livejournal.com]

That makes sense :) I'm looking for an equivalent indicator for males, haven't found one yet...