Stephen King’s ultimate, evil vehicle of terror, Christine: the frightening story of a nerdy teenager who falls in love with his vintage Plymouth Fury. It was love at first sight, but this car is no lady. Evil is alive in Libertyville. It inhabits a custom-painted red and white 1958 Plymouth Fury named Christine and young Arnold Cunningham, who buys it. Along with Arnold’s girlfriend, Leigh … Arnold’s girlfriend, Leigh Cabot, Dennis Guilder attempts to find out the real truth behind Christine and finds more than he bargained for: from murder to suicide, there’s a peculiar feeling that surrounds Christine—she gets revenge on anyone standing in her path.
Can Dennis save Arnold from the wrath of Christine? This #1 national bestseller is “Vintage Stephen King…breathtaking…awesome. Carries such momentum the reader must force himself to slow down” (The New York Times Book Review).
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This was the first book I ever read by Stephen King, and it made a lifelong fan of his work.
There’s another creepy one for all! It was a great book with the idea of a car…with a brain? Another one of those “can’t put the book down and yet it’s totally creeping me out” type of excitement.
Now, I am a huge fan of Stephen King, like most horror nerds are. I enjoy his new material and older material. I have to say though, I am really digging the gritty feel of his earlier novels. Dark and powerful. Love it.
It took me over a week to listen to all 19+ hours of this classic and it is still EVERYTHING.
One of the scariest books ever, King was a master then and he still reigns today!
Another Stephen King classic. Well written, imaginative and scary.
I read this book in my high school English class. It was terrifying, but I simply could not put it down. I was sucked in!
Terribly longwinded but for a great purpose. This novel is all about friendship. Completely compelling. Words cannot describe how good this was.
I love Stephen King and this is one of his best.
Will rad it again
King at the top of his game. Great characters.
Christine is classic Stephen King. It has edge of your seat chills throughout, a rich character driven story and King’s penchant for using cultural landmarks for setting and filling his story line. In this case, the time his music choices evoke is 30 years prior to the time the story takes place. It still works well to bring the past into the present, which is at the center of the book’s horror.
This story of a loser who is able to change his status and fortunes using a dangerous magic that ultimately creates chaos in his own life and that of his family and closest friends holds the reader to the page. Once started, you’ll find it hard to put down.
Most of the book is day to day life of kids, friends, brothers. Very entertaining. Last part is horror! The bad movie only covered the last part of the book.
Great book. If you like theMovie.
Read the book.
King always takes something ordinary and makes it universally scary. He knows all of our ordinary scary things in our lives and thoughts, that we never share and reveals them, putting a face on them.
Second time was just as good as the first time. I had forgotten some stuff in the book as I hadn’t read it for years, so it was really cool to re-read it.
Great book
Love, love, love Stephen King. His imagination is incredible.
I read this when it first came out, & re-read it recently. Classic Stephen King. When Mr. King writes, you have no problem picturing anything. To this day, I still like someone else around when reading him. I still get chills, gasp out loud ,& have to stop for a minute or two when reading some passages.
Creepy, scary, classic Stephen King
This story is mostly told from high school senior, Dennis, whose friend, Arnie, has just past a car he cannot live without. It is an old 1958 Fury that he saw sitting in the front yard of an old, retired army man named Mr. Lebay. The car hasn’t run in year and needs tons of work but Arnie has to have it. The car has a name – Christine. Dennis helps him get it to a car storage garage where Arnie begins to work on it. He makes miraculous progress on it over the summer – much to his parents dismay (who would rather him be concentrating on college and school) and has it running by the time school starts. Arnie also starts to change himself – he goes from a geeky kid with lots of pimples to a handsome young man who attracts the attention of the pretty new girl in school.
By Christmas time, Arnie is completely obsessed with the car and has very little time for his friends, his family or his girl. The car is not liked by anyone else – it gives everyone a bad feeling. It also gives off a really weird smell that everyone says smells like death. The school bullies start to pick on Arnie and try and destroy his car. But Christine has a plan of her own. The car gets revenge on the bullies and starts to pick off all the people in Arnie’s life that don’t like him or the car.
Soon his friend Dennis and Arnie’s now ex-girlfriend, Leigh, have decided it is time for Christine to go. Something is wrong with that car and it has destroyed the person they once new.
This was a pretty good book. I try to read at least one Stephen King a year. I have always been curious about this one. It had some parts where I rolled my eyes – I hate when authors stray off course with “filler” text. But for the most part, it help my interest, and I am glad I read it. I am anxious to see the movie to see it played out.