From the book jacket:
Just another lovers' triangle, you say? Not quite. There's a fourth here, the second lady, the dark lady. "Cars are girls," Leigh Cabot says, and the dark force in Stephen King's new novel is a 1958 Plymouth named Christine.
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.
Arnie 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. as Arnie sets feverishly to work on the seemingly hopeless job of resorting Christine, Christine begins to develop a terrible life of her own. 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.
In Christine, Stephen King has returned to the full-fledged novel of supernatural horror for the first time since The Shining. It will keep readers up late...and will have them looking both ways as they cross the street after dark.
Moe's Review
Christine is another of the King books that I read long ago and recently re-read for this project of mine. Christine is one of the better King books in my opinion. Being a car nut it was easy for me to get into this book. Arnie is also an easy character to identify with. I think we have all, at some point in our lives, felt ostrized and like an outsider. Once again King gives us well developed characters, even Christine is well fleshed out and has a personality of her own.
If you are new to the world of Stephen King I feel this book is a good starter one. It's not his best but it really gives you a good idea of his writing style and the tone is definitely King. Of course if you are long time fan Christine is pretty much required reading if you haven't done so already. |
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