cgeorge 's review for:

Christine by Stephen King

5.0

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I've read a lot of reviews on this book that say it's too long and not scary, I even saw a review saying "it's a car, climb some stairs already". I get why people would say this book isn't scary because it's only a car that's going around killing people but for me, I don't think that's what made the book scary. It was Arnie's descent into madness and obsession. King is excellent at writing human emotion and making you feel something for the characters in his books. He fleshes them out so well. This is an over 600 page book about a killer car but I couldn't wait to continue reading it every night. I especially liked how it was written like a memoir from Dennis and the shift in perspective didn't bother me at all. The ending was bittersweet and not gonna lie, I wanted to tear up a little bit reading the epilogue. I was surprised by how differently the book and movie end but I like the books ending a lot better, it was more ambiguous with Arnie's fate and it made you really believe that that car killed all those people on it's own because it was possessed by LeBay's ghost. I felt in the movie, it was left up to the viewer to decide if Arnie was in the car while those killings happened or not. I would certainly recommend this book to horror fans, it's scarier than you think.

side note: I'm pretty sure King has a "high cheekbone" fetish lol