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3.68 AVERAGE
3.68 AVERAGE
dark
emotional
tense
slow-paced
Plot or Character Driven:
Character
Strong character development:
Yes
Loveable characters:
Complicated
Diverse cast of characters:
No
Flaws of characters a main focus:
No
Achtung, unpopuläre Meinung. Macht euch unbedingt ein eigenes Bild vom Buch, immerhin wird es von sehr vielen Leuten geliebt.
Die Story hätte auch durchaus 5 Sterne verdient: Arnie entdeckt auf der Straße einen Oldtimer, kauft und restauriert ihn. Der Vorbesitzer nannte den Wagen Christine. Christine veränderte Arnie jedoch, stiftete Randale und zu allem Übel schien eine große Gefahr von ihr auszugehen.
Die Geschichte hört sich richtig interessant und spannend an. Leider wurde sie für mein Empfinden in viel zu viel Text verpackt. Ständig wurde weit und ausschweifend ausgeholt, Geschehnisse teilweise mehrfach erzählt. So trug es sich zu, dass es allein schon 250 Seiten dauerte, bis Christine überhaupt mal betriebsbereit war. Das war sehr mühsam und schleppend.
Spannend waren dann lediglich die actionreichen Stellen. Das war mir zu wenig.
Die Story hätte auch durchaus 5 Sterne verdient: Arnie entdeckt auf der Straße einen Oldtimer, kauft und restauriert ihn. Der Vorbesitzer nannte den Wagen Christine. Christine veränderte Arnie jedoch, stiftete Randale und zu allem Übel schien eine große Gefahr von ihr auszugehen.
Die Geschichte hört sich richtig interessant und spannend an. Leider wurde sie für mein Empfinden in viel zu viel Text verpackt. Ständig wurde weit und ausschweifend ausgeholt, Geschehnisse teilweise mehrfach erzählt. So trug es sich zu, dass es allein schon 250 Seiten dauerte, bis Christine überhaupt mal betriebsbereit war. Das war sehr mühsam und schleppend.
Spannend waren dann lediglich die actionreichen Stellen. Das war mir zu wenig.
dark
emotional
funny
sad
tense
medium-paced
Plot or Character Driven:
A mix
Strong character development:
Yes
Loveable characters:
Yes
Diverse cast of characters:
No
Flaws of characters a main focus:
Yes
adventurous
dark
emotional
mysterious
sad
tense
slow-paced
Plot or Character Driven:
Character
Strong character development:
Complicated
Loveable characters:
Yes
dark
emotional
tense
slow-paced
Plot or Character Driven:
Character
Strong character development:
Complicated
Loveable characters:
Yes
Diverse cast of characters:
No
Flaws of characters a main focus:
Yes
scary. fantastic and scary. not as scary as pet semetaty but christine had a fantastic build up that meant the last 100 pages had to be read at once. brilliant ending that i didn’t see coming. slow beginning but every chapter is worth it. weird plot but somehow king made it work. would recommend to people who like out of the box ideas, paranormal stuff and who don’t mind a LOT of car talk
I decided to read this book because it is one of King's classics and I decided I needed at least 1 horror book in October. After watching the video about it on Mike's Book Reviews youtube channel I decided to give it a shot.
Due to the fact that this is one of King's works that has become somewhat embedded in pop culture people know the basic premise of the book being "killer car". While that's true there is a lot more too it than that which makes it more interesting to read than I initially thought it would be. It's also a tale of friendship, growing up, betrayal, bullying and first love.
I'm always a sucker for King coming of ages stories and the way he writes his kid protagonists and you get a lot of that here. These are teenagers so they're old than some of the kids in his other works, but he still knows how they think and act. I loved the story being told through Dennis' pov of what is happening to his friend, Arnie, and Arnie's 1958 Plymouth Fury. We get to see through his eyes how Arnie changes, and the dawning realization of what is happening and how horrifying it is. Parts 1 and 3 from Dennis' POV are the best parts in the book and we get some of the most dread and horror filled scenes.
The middle of the book bizarrely switches to 3rd person omniscient narration where we get the thoughts and POVs of a bunch of different characters like Arnie, the bullies, and Arnie's girlfriend. Important stuff happens, but without Dennis as the narrator and putting things to together it doesn't have the same snap to it. The really chilling chapters happen in the last 1/3 as Dennis puts it all together.
Overall a good but not great King book dragged down by the middle section. I did like the somewhat ambiguous nature of how Christine is possessed or it's owners are possessed or if it was always that way or became that way. King gives us some stuff which I won't spoil, but a lot is left up to the reader which somehow makes it more scary.
Due to the fact that this is one of King's works that has become somewhat embedded in pop culture people know the basic premise of the book being "killer car". While that's true there is a lot more too it than that which makes it more interesting to read than I initially thought it would be. It's also a tale of friendship, growing up, betrayal, bullying and first love.
I'm always a sucker for King coming of ages stories and the way he writes his kid protagonists and you get a lot of that here. These are teenagers so they're old than some of the kids in his other works, but he still knows how they think and act. I loved the story being told through Dennis' pov of what is happening to his friend, Arnie, and Arnie's 1958 Plymouth Fury. We get to see through his eyes how Arnie changes, and the dawning realization of what is happening and how horrifying it is. Parts 1 and 3 from Dennis' POV are the best parts in the book and we get some of the most dread and horror filled scenes.
The middle of the book bizarrely switches to 3rd person omniscient narration where we get the thoughts and POVs of a bunch of different characters like Arnie, the bullies, and Arnie's girlfriend. Important stuff happens, but without Dennis as the narrator and putting things to together it doesn't have the same snap to it. The really chilling chapters happen in the last 1/3 as Dennis puts it all together.
Overall a good but not great King book dragged down by the middle section. I did like the somewhat ambiguous nature of how Christine is possessed or it's owners are possessed or if it was always that way or became that way. King gives us some stuff which I won't spoil, but a lot is left up to the reader which somehow makes it more scary.
dark
mysterious
tense
medium-paced
Plot or Character Driven:
A mix
Strong character development:
Yes
Loveable characters:
Yes
Diverse cast of characters:
No
Flaws of characters a main focus:
Yes
Reading to many other books and always struggle with audiobooks, I like them but I lose interest fast. I’m sure I’ll pick up this again at a later date though.
adventurous
dark
emotional
funny
mysterious
sad
tense
medium-paced
Plot or Character Driven:
Character
Strong character development:
Complicated
Loveable characters:
Yes
Diverse cast of characters:
N/A
Flaws of characters a main focus:
Yes
dark
emotional
tense
medium-paced
Loveable characters:
Yes