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3.68 AVERAGE
3.68 AVERAGE
told from a different perspective than the movie (the friend not the main character in the movie).different ending and better in my opinion to the movie.lots of cursing not something to listen/read to with kids around.
adventurous
challenging
dark
emotional
mysterious
reflective
sad
tense
medium-paced
Plot or Character Driven:
Character
Strong character development:
Complicated
Loveable characters:
Complicated
Diverse cast of characters:
No
Flaws of characters a main focus:
Complicated
First car. First love. What happens when love, obsession and a decades old evil coincide?
Who is the bad guy in this story? A haunted car? A boyfriend who can’t take no for an answer from the first girl he’s ever loved? The angry man who’s anger and appetite for revenge predates his ownership of the apparently haunted car? Parents who refuse to accept their only son is growing up and want to control him?
The answer - as always with King - is a mixture of all of these. There’s very rarely a good guy and a bad guy in his writing, but lots of shades of grey. And Christine is no different.
I enjoy most of these characters, although I do find it quite difficult to like Arnie, the boy who buys and falls in thrall to Christine. His moments of humanity are largely built around quite juvenile humour shared with the main character Dennis. These are shortcuts to their sense of bonding that I don’t have a strong frame of reference for, so Arnie to me is more defined by his selfishness and aggression which emerges as soon a she sees Christine.
Whether Arnie is haunted by the original owner of the car LeBay, or by a demon possessing the car who has moved on as its first bond partner loses their usefulness, is a question that’s never really answered, but it doesn’t need to be. The overall impact is no different, of an implacable enemy who will keep coming no matter how fast you try to outrun them.
dark
emotional
mysterious
tense
slow-paced
Strong character development:
Yes
Loveable characters:
Yes
Diverse cast of characters:
No
Flaws of characters a main focus:
Yes
dark
mysterious
tense
slow-paced
Strong character development:
Yes
Loveable characters:
Complicated
Diverse cast of characters:
No
Flaws of characters a main focus:
Yes
dark
mysterious
slow-paced
Strong character development:
Yes
Loveable characters:
No
Diverse cast of characters:
No
Flaws of characters a main focus:
Yes
adventurous
dark
emotional
mysterious
tense
medium-paced
Strong character development:
Yes
Loveable characters:
Yes
Diverse cast of characters:
Yes
Flaws of characters a main focus:
Yes
Christine was an improvement over the last few books I've read by King, so I was pleased that Christine was a return to form with his writing style and plotting. However, I was really unengaged with the story and with the characters most of the time. There were a few moments when I connected with the friendship between Arnie and Dennis, and I thought the haunted car concept was fun. It was a good book, but I just didn't care. And, I hate to sound like a broken record on King book reviews, but this book is WAY too long for the depth of my interest and the plot. If it had been 100 pages shorter, the pace would have felt quicker and I might have been more engaged.
Great for thrills and surprisingly engaging considering we're just talking about a car. Not one of the best but not a bad read.