LeBay who endured a series of family and close friend’s deaths during the time that the car was in his ownership. The car originally belonged to a man named Ronald D. The story surrounds a bright red 1958 Plymouth Fury that has something very different and very special about it since it first came off the production line. She suggested this book to me because it was the first Stephen King book that she read when she was around my age, and it is one of the less grueling and psychopathic novels by King that would help me wean myself into the genre.Ĭhristine was first published in 1983 by Viking Press. King is her favorite author and as a young teenager, I desired something more challenging to read instead of the classic tween novels from authors such as Andy Griffiths. It was my mother that first suggested I read the book.
The first Stephen King book I ever read was Christine when I was thirteen. With a collection of over 50 novels, roughly 200 short stories, and over 15 film adaptations, King is, without a doubt, one of the most successful authors of all time. It will keep readers up late.and will have them looking both ways as they cross the street after dark.Stephen King is a renowned author of the horror and thriller genre.
In Christine, Stephen King has returned to the full-fledged novel of supernatural horror for the first time since The Shining. Or is that only imagination? Dennis continues to hope so.and then people begin to die on Libertyville's dark suburban streets and roads.and the time comes when Dennis can no longer deny the horrifying truth: Christine is alive. as Arnie sets feverishly to work on the seemingly hopeless job of resorting Christine, Christine begins to develop a terrible life of her own. She is no ordinary car, this white-over-red two-toned survivor of a time when high-test gasoline was priced at a quarter a gallon and speedometers were calibrated all the way up to a hundred and twenty miles an hour.a time when rock and roll in all its first crude power ruled America.a time when speed was king.Īrnie Cunningham is determined to have Christine at any price, and little by little, Dennis and Leigh begin to suspect that the price of his growing obsession may be terrifyingly high, its result blackly evil. "Cars are girls," Leigh Cabot says, and the dark force in Stephen King's new novel is a 1958 Plymouth named Christine. There's a fourth here, the second lady, the dark lady. Just another lovers' triangle, you say? Not quite. Scene: a middle-class suburb of Pittsburgh.Ĭast of characters: Arnie Cunningham, a bookish and bullied high school senior Dennis Guilder, his friend and sometimes protector Leigh Cabot, the new girl in school, won by Arnie.but wanted by Dennis as well.
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