A point (horror) to make...

I have a point of the horror to make - it is another day, and therefore another new obsession. Well I say new, it is a renewed obsession. I don't know where it came from, it just shot back into my brain and consumed it. It is quite a welcome break from Doctor Who and its debates, about screwdrivers and guns, and race and sexuality, and of course about series numbering. So this will act as a pallet cleanser before the new series.

What is this renewed obsession I hear nobody ask...well it is Point books. Generally Point Horror, but I have found a few other gems in my collection hidden at the back of the bookshelf.

I have now made it my mission to collect all of these books. Oh dear!!

So the plan is to add to the collection and then read through the books in order, although I have my eyes on Break Point first as I remember loving this one when I was younger. Were they as good as I remember? Probably not!!

I started off by reading No 1 by Denis Bond the other night.

Now this is a book that follows a fair few people as they hunt for success in the UK and US charts. My major thought is, how the hell did one class produce so many stars!! Not just stars either, absolute heartthrobs. This is a class of 16 and 17 year olds, four of them form a successful band and within weeks of starting one of them is every girls dream man, another leaves said band and becomes part of the driving force of a top pop moguls company. I think we are only a few months in from them packing in school, if only life was so easy!! Two of the classes teachers pen a song that is then picked up by the worlds most famous model to sing as her first single, one of the girls gets an offer to join a top modeling agency and then another lad goes on to beat them all to number one in the charts. Now that is a very, very jammy class!!!!

Just a few months from jacking in school, to sleeping with journalists to get a good story in the papers, I know this was the 90's, but blimey!! I take it all with a pinch of salt though, because despite the unlikeliness of the events that take place, I bloody love it. I am not one for giving up on books, if I start it I have to finish it, but I was quite merrily reading through this one. Perhaps that was partly because for the life of me I couldn't remember what happened, what was Hym's dark secret? It was dark alright, but personally not sure how they got away with it for so long!!

There we have it, my mind is now free of Doctor Who problems - oh damn it, they are back in my head again!!

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