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 Masterful Character Description by Master Storyteller
Whatever you may think about this novel, King's portrait of his antagonist, John Rainbird, is among the best to be found in contemporary popular literature. With a few short paragraphs, he introduces a character worthy in every way of the powers-possessed protagonist--one whose only purpose in the story is to kill her. By the time we've read his introduction, we know that we'll be holding on for a wild ride to the very end.
Just falls alittle short of Perfection..
I just got done reading this book Firestarter by Stephen King tonight. I checked it out from the library not too long ago.. I've been interested in reading this book for awhile now and now that I have.. this is what I think. This book to me was not scary.. if you are looking for a book by Stephen King simply for the horror and to make you scared.. I don't think this one is for you. This story is about Andy and Charlie Mcgee before Charlie was born Andy and her mother Vickie took part in an experiment ran by the shop. The effects of what happened made Andy have the ability of the push and her mother I believe to move things with her mind. But Charlie has pyrokinesis which means she can start fires just by thinking about it. I love the character of Charlie. She didn't have no choice of having this pyrokinesis she was born with it.. and through everything that's happened in her life it did make me feel for the girl to the point where I just wanted to cry for her. Just knowing too that she went through all of this for 200$ well.. is just crazy. Read this book.. it's pretty good.. I will say that it did have it's times when I just fell out of interest like there was just nothing happening and it had me saying to myself "Come on something happen already". I also felt like this book might of been a bit too long but not much. Overall good stuff written by Stephen.
Justin
 Charlie should have burned the manuscript!
I've read a lot of Stephen King's work, and loved most of it, but 'Firestarter' was a big letdown!
It's not quite in the 'abomination' category of 'From a Buick 8', but at least King could blame that one on his car accident. This one is probably only about as good as 'The Tommyknockers.'
The premise is great, but once it gets away from 'Andy and Charlie on the run', and becomes 'The Life Story of Tom Rainbird', it goes downhill very quickly!
Not to knock King too much, but as this books goes along, it seems obvious that SK was losing interest, either because he found the two lead characters too limiting for whatever reason, and wanted to 'explore' the supporting characters more; or simply because this book came out fairly early in King's career, when he was known to partake of certain 'substances' which he later swore off!
Worth reading only if you really want to read every SK novel. Otherwise, just be glad that nearly every book he wrote after this one(with the exception of the two mentioned above) surpasses 'Firestarter'.
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