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| View Larger Image | Firestarter (Signet)
by Stephen King
| | List Price: | $7.99 |  | | Available: | Usually ships in 24 hours | | | | | Sales Rank: | 40570 | | Studio: | Signet | | | Binding: | Mass Market Paperback | | Number Of Pages: | 416 | | Publication Date: | August 01, 1981 | | Publisher: | Signet |
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Product Description
Innocence and beauty ignite with evil and terror as a young girl exhibits signs of a wild and horrifying force. |
CUSTOMER REVIEWS (Average Customer Rating: 4.5 based on 148 reviews)
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Fire, Fire Everywhere and too much to handle? 
Firestarter, by Stephen King really got me wondering about psychic abilities while I was reading it. It pulled me in and I was unaware of my surroundings because it was written so well. Then when I looked up, and it was eleven o clock, I realized it was just a book and I was being stupid. Nevertheless, it sucked me in and I enjoyed every bit of it thoroughly.
WARNING: SPOILERS AHEAD!!!!
This book was well written and gets you wondering about things like how our government treats us and if they really did psychic experiments on people in the 70's... It has a message that many Americans want to hear (our government is evil and is unjustly punishing people). Still, I enjoyed this book for the pyrokinesis. Charlie McGee is a seven year old girl who can set fire to pretty much anything, including people, with just the force of her will. Her mother and father (Andy and Vicky McGee) have taught her that her ability is evil and should never be used, but when The Shop, a government agency come and try to take Charlie away for military use, Andy is forced to run. The Shop has killed Vicky and Andy is forced to re-educate Charlie on the run, telling her that sometimes lighting fires is O.K. (for some background info, The Shop set up an experiment in the 70's that both Andy and Vicky took part in, they later ended up marrying each other and Charlie is the special child of the pair that have been strangely altered mentally. Andy has a mental domination ability which means he can force people to do what he wants and Vicky has random fits of telekinesis, moving things without touching them). After a year and a half on the run, John Rainbird captures Andy and Charlie. They spend the better part of the next year in Shop headquarters in Longley, VA where Andy is drugged and Charlie is tested on her ability. Finally, Andy comes up with a plan to escape but in the process he dies and so does Rainbird. In the end, Charlie gets away using her ability and tells her story to the press, which will hopefully end her unfair persecution.
Overall this book was an amazing blend of politics and psychic abilities. The plot was fantastic and though it got a little boring in the middle, it went out with a bang and Charlie finally breaks down her fear of using pyrokinesis. She is amazing and her pyrokinesis makes for some great story telling.
November 11, 2008 | |
Delivery safe, on time as expected 
This provider has delivered the book on time and in a safe condition. I recommend it.
October 05, 2008 | |
Firestarter
I loved this book. When I read Stephen King his way of expressing things through wrting always enables me to see in my mind a clear picture of the entire story (no matter how unreal the things may seem to be). This book took me beyond just seeing the story as it was meant to be. I saw it more like something that really happened and this is the detailed account of what happened.
September 29, 2008 | |
Another Great Story
Good Stuff- Not as long or complicated as many of Steven King's books- but a very good story that features the classic character development that makes King's works so enjoyable.
August 19, 2008 | |
Absolutely Amazing--though a bit structurally unbalanced
What can I say about Stephen King? That he is the most amazing writer I've read since Mark Twain? Or that he creates characters and dialog that are so true-to-life and inventive? That his prose soars like a Gulfstream? Yes, these and a lot more.
I've read King as a teenager, and now in my 30s, I decided to read some of the earlier novels I've bypassed before. Firestarter is the first of these novels, and when I read it, I nearly cried at some of the scenes. I just couldn't believe how well-written they were. Case in point: when the dad and the girl goes to the farmer's house, and the dad's trying to convince the farmer what his girl could do, and when the bad guys show up. That one brilliant scene--the dialog, the realistic action, etc.--encapsulates everything that is brilliant about Stephen King. John Grisham can't write such a scene. Neither can Michael Crichton or Dennis Lehane or, God help us, James Patterson.
The story itself, though, suffers a lot in comparison to King's preternatural writing talent. The government is experimenting on college students (yeah, right!) to give them extrasensory powers, and two people have a kid, and that kid can throw fireballs. Haha. Of course, the easiest thing the parents could've done is to alert the papers from the get-go, but noooo, they had to wait--well, the dad does anyway because the wife gets offed before the novel even begins--until it was too late. So logically, Firestarter, like all of King's novels, are on very shaky ground. And structurally, King can shrink it a bit--esp. the overly long denouement. So a point off.
But it doesn't matter. You don't read Stephen King for tight structure and high concept--that would be Dan Brown and Ira Levin--but for his prose, dialog, and character development, which are, again, amazing. You read Stephen King for the interaction between the dad and his little girl, and smile and curse the brillaint villain John Rainbird, the modern-day Injun Joe.
So read this book, and witness truly one of the great talents in the English language.
July 01, 2008 | |
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