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Fire Starter (Paperback)

by Stephen King (Author)
4.6 out of 5 stars See all reviews (7 customer reviews)

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  • Paperback: 510 pages
  • Publisher: Time Warner Paperbacks; New edition edition (13 May 1993)
  • Language English
  • ISBN-10: 0751504394
  • ISBN-13: 978-0751504392
  • Product Dimensions: 17.8 x 10.9 x 3.5 cm
  • Average Customer Review: 4.6 out of 5 stars See all reviews (7 customer reviews)
  • Amazon.co.uk Sales Rank: 281,917 in Books (See Bestsellers in Books)

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A Stephen King story featuring a sinister government agency, a fateful drug experiment, and a pigtailed girl named Charlie, who has an unimaginably terrifying gift.

About the Author
Stephen King was born in Portland, Maine in 1947. Since publication of his first novel CARRIE he has become perhaps the bestselling author in the world today.

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5.0 out of 5 stars Unbelievable: I didn't want it to end., 5 Aug 2001
The dramatic effect of throwing readers in at the deep end with Andy and Charlie already on the run is pulled off perfectly by King, with flashbacks explaining the more intricate details of the experiments and the Shop agency. When I first saw this, I thought it would be a cheap version of Carrie, but I found this far more entertaining, with more interesting characters and a much more satisfying conclusion. The superntatural backdrop is hardly as much a basis for the story as a trademark of Stephen King's macabre style. Also well researched, with mutations, telepathy and pyrokinesis. Amazing.
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5.0 out of 5 stars Excellent!!!, 2 Jul 2001
By michaeldaly99@hotmail.com (waterford, ireland) - See all my reviews
I've read a few Stephen King books. I'm only 12, and sometimes I find it very hard to concentrate, but in Firestarter I just never lost intertest. I would recommend it to good readers of my age, as it has very little unapropriate content, unlike King's other books.The story may seem shallow at first, a girl and her father running away from the government agency "The Shop", the girl with a supernatural power to set things on fire. Ripping off Carrie? No, after the father and daughter are caught and imprisonned, thats where the story really takes place! Excellent story and charachters, I recommend this to new readers as well as hardcore SK fans.
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5.0 out of 5 stars Excellent!, 26 Feb 2005
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Having already taken in Insomnia, The Stand, and Salem's lot, I was already a Stephen King fan before I read Firestarter but this one re-affirmed my love of Kings books. The book follows Andy and Charlie who are on the run from a government agency known as 'the shop' who want to find out what makes the little girl (Charlie) tick and how they can make use of the pryrokenetic power she possesses. The story while the pair are on the run is gripping but the book gets better once the pair are in the grip of 'the shop'. The reader comes to identify with the characters as they are seperated for months, the little girl desperate to see her daddy, the parent not knowing what's happening to his child. King's writing is so exceptional that you can't help but go through a range of emotions by simply reading the words on the page to the point where you wish there was something you could do to help Andy and Charlie, you want them to get one over on the shop, you want Charlie to be able to escape and live a normal life with Andy.

A Gripping Novel with a tear-jerker ending.

If you're going to read any of Kings work, start with FIRESTARTER!!

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3.0 out of 5 stars Fire Extinguisher
This story of a little girl with an extrodinary power and who is chased by a secret government agency called "the shop" is not so much a horror, if that's all you're after, this... Read more
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5.0 out of 5 stars Fantastic
I found this book to be a fantastic read, I would have to say that this is one of my favourite books by Stephen King that I have read.
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4.0 out of 5 stars Gripping
Having read The Stand and The Green Mile I found myself hooked on King's novels. I actually recieved this one for Christmas and I have to say I was not dissapointed. Read more
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