(Original Review, 1980-09-21)The popularity of "occult" novels haunts the science fiction community. We of all people are expected to pay serious attention to stories based on semiliterate misreadings of religious apocrypha. Not based, mind you, on either testament of the Bible, but on superstitions...
There is a lot to like in this story. The concept has always fascinated me, especially given the veneer of plausibility as the US government does have a well-documented history of unethical human experimentation and has had programs investigating psychic phenomena. So the setup, and the description ...
Charlie is a firestarter. No secret there. Most people have seen the movie and kind of the know the story already. She is the daughter of Andy and Vicky. two persons who participated in a government sponsored experiment to trigger X-men ability in subjects. They both have powers, but weak powe...
Andy and his daughter Charlene, Charlie for short, are on the run. A government agency known as The Shop are after them. Years ago, The Shop was responsible for administering a secret experiemental drug into the veins of Charlie's parents when they were broke and naive college kids. The drug, called...
Stephen King started the 1980s off with a bang with Firestarter, the tale of a pyrokinetic eight-year-old girl and her father on the run from a branch of the government, The Shop (King's fictitious version of the CIA, essentially), that wants to use them for their own malicious means. Their travels ...
This book is a good example of why I like a lot of Stephen King's earlier books; while it deals with horror-like themes we are not dealing with hordes of zombies or vampires plotting to take over the world but rather with an extra-ordinary girl who is on the run from the government. Most of the horr...
I can find absolutely nothing bad to say about this book. Firestarter is up there with 'Salem's Lot, The Shining, and It. This one isn't as creep-up-on-you scary as the aforementioned novels, but Firestarter is terrifying. To image a world wherein Charlie McGee exists is a scary thought indeed. T...
I enjoyed this more than Cujo, the last Stephen King book that I read. Although Cujo was probably the scarier story, this seemed to have fewer awful people. there aren't many truly evil characters in Firestarter (as opposed to, say Under the Dome), because most of the terrible things that happen are...
Andy McGee, a young student, willingly takes part in a medical experiment to raise a little cash. The experiment, sponsored by a shady government organisation called "The Shop" leaves him (and his future wife) with telepathic/telekinetic powers. Many years later and Andy is on the run from The Shop ...
I really enjoyed this one. I had vague memories of seeing the movie as a kid and remembered a few bits, but it turns out that it I wasn't too spoiler-ed. I've been on a King kick lately and this has maybe been my favorite of the recent reads. This, or Just After Sunset.
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