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Firestarter (Paperback)

by Stephen King (Author)
4.2 out of 5 stars See all reviews (4 customer reviews)
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  • Paperback: 512 pages
  • Publisher: Hodder Paperbacks; New edition edition (8 May 2006)
  • Language English
  • ISBN-10: 0340899042
  • ISBN-13: 978-0340899045
  • Product Dimensions: 17 x 11.2 x 3.6 cm
  • Average Customer Review: 4.2 out of 5 stars See all reviews (4 customer reviews)
  • Amazon.co.uk Sales Rank: 150,164 in Books (See Bestsellers in Books)

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'Stephen King’s finest novel yet…the most tightly plotted of King’s chillers, it is also the most terrifying' (Cosmopolitan )

'One of the most fertile storytellers of the modern novel' (The Sunday Times )

'King does this better than anyone else. We finished the book in about three non-stop hours after we picked it up' (Playboy )

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FIRESTARTER is the mesmerising and menacing story of a sinister government agency, a fateful drug experiment, and a pigtailed girl named Charlie, who has an unimaginably terrifying gift. The power of pyrokinesis.

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6 of 6 people found the following review helpful:
5.0 out of 5 stars Firestarter, 21 Dec 2007
By Spider Monkey (UK) - See all my reviews
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This is one of Kings better books and keeps you hooked throughout. As usual for King (despite other failings) his characterisation is spot on and you engage straight away with the main characters, and therefore with their story. King manages to give just the right amount of edge to the government agency pursuing the pyrokinetic girl and her father and you begin to feel their frustrations and fear as they are relentlessly hunted down. This book is often overlooked in Kings body of work, but it is one of my favorites of his and well worth a read.
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7 of 9 people found the following review helpful:
5.0 out of 5 stars Set the night on fire!, 21 Jun 2006
By Jackie Coupe "Facebook me!" (UK, Blackburn) - See all my reviews
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Charlie's parents once needed some money - as college students they both took part in a drug trail.
The drug unknown to them had queer properties and the trail may have reulted in at least one death.
In a million to one shot they ended up married and had a child, the hold over from the drug trail, the enhancement of their latent talents such as telepathy and telekenesis led to Charlie being born in possession of a talent all of her own - she can set fires at will.
Her parents keep this very secret, they know that if it were to get out then people would want to take their daugther and study her because they come to realise what she can do is probably what the original test was all about.
They struggle to deal with her as a baby - can you imagine a baby crying because it wants feeding only to have the curtains set fire?
Her father can use what he calls a 'push', he can make suggestions to people and make them do things but it causes him pain and damages his brain - when he comes home one day from work and finds his wife dead and his daugther missing he sets out to get revenge.
He finds his power lacking, the more he uses it the less it works, he gets his daugther back and they end up captured again by a covert government agency 'The Shop' who then try every dirty trick in the book to get the girl to use her powers.
Her father is a spent force and they are seperated in a compound - her only friend is a daily cleaner...or so she thinks.
Double crossings and devastation - the child will never be free while she has these abilities.
She suffers the greatest loss imaginable.
A book that blisters with storyline and in the end, there is only one option available to her.
Burn it down...
True King - a blaze of glory. Long but worth it.
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5.0 out of 5 stars One of his best, 13 April 2006
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It's not as well known a novel as say, The Stand or The Shining (although there was a film made starring Drew Barrymore), but for me this is one of King's best works. The story is of a man who takes part in a clinical trial of a new drug while at university, and who picks up an ability to influence people's actions with his mind, somewhat Jedi-like. He later passes on to his daughter the power to start fires with her mind, something which makes her the target of a shady government group intent on using her powers for their own gain.
It's one of King's most tightly plotted novels, completely lacking in his sometimes too-frequent ramblings that don't seem to go anywhere. Though not really horror, it does have King's typically excellent characterisation, and as usual I felt very connected to the main character's plight and cared a lot about his outcome. Definitely highly recommended.
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