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Long But Engrossing, Mai 30 2004
Nothing gets in the way of a boy and his car---NOTHING, not even his girlfriend. Not even his best friend from childhood. NOTHING. Especially if it's Arnie Cunningham and his Christine, a 1958 red-and-white Plymouth Fury who earns her name and then some over the course of this book. This is Stephen King's 1983 classic Horror novel CHRISTINE.Having seen the feature film, made later the same year and starring Keith Gordon as the nerdy, much-picked-upon Arnie Cunningham, I can say that this book certainly places the terrifying screen images I remember into a whole new context---indeed, into a whole new dimension. You see, in the film, the car itself was just plain evil---as illustrated by the song "Bad To The Bone" by George Thorogood and the Delaware Destroyers being played at both the beginning and the ending. In the book, it's a lot less simple than that: It's not just that Arnie becomes obsessed with Christine, who influences him to become evil; the focus is more on Christine's evil previous owner, Roland D. LeBay. Over time, Arnie gradually metamorphoses into LeBay, who's described as being "always angry" and refers to his enemies as "sh*tters." (In the movie, Arnie comes up with that word himself.) There are subplots involving the delving into LeBay's past, as well as dealing with Arnie's parents. In the movie, Roland D. LeBay still sells Arnie the car, but he is no more consequential than that. Interestingly enough, in the book, it is Arnie's father who is the sympathetic parent, with the mother being a harridan; in the movie, it is the other way around. Typically for a Stephen King book versus the movie, the body count is higher in the book. Will Darnell, the fat, coarse body-shop owner (and Arnie's boss) meets an especially prolonged end in the written version. [SPOILER ALERT: The only majorly disappointing thing to me about the book was Arnie's rather anti-climactic end. In the movie, he is killed while in Christine; in the book, he is killed in a car accident along with his mother on the snowbound Pennsylvania Turnpike.] I liked the unique narrative structure of CHRISTINE. The book is divided into three sections: The first is narrated in the first person by Arnie's best friend Dennis Guilder, the mid-section changes to a God's-eye third-person point of view, and the final section goes back to Dennis' first-person narration. It's a very interesting technique, perhaps odd, but I think it works for this novel. Of course, there are plenty of King witticisms that us fans have come to love about his writing---CHRISTINE is chock-full of them! It's because of this that I forced myself to read slower---and believe me, I had to read a lot slower than usual, because CHRISTINE is a real page-turner! I really didn't want to miss the sarcastic observations, ironic musings and other King witticisms than have become a trademark. I definitely recommend reading CHRISTINE; it is quite enjoyable, no matter if you saw the film version first or not. RECOMMENDED; AGES 16 & UP
HIGHLY RECOMMENDED FOR STEPHEN KING FANS
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