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Firestarter: A Novel by [Stephen King]

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Master storyteller Stephen King presents the classic #1 New York Timesbestseller—now a major motion picture!

Andy McGee and Vicky Tomlinson were once college students looking to make some extra cash, volunteering as test subjects for an experiment orchestrated by the clandestine government organization known as The Shop. But the outcome unlocked exceptional latent psychic talents for the two of them—manifesting in even more terrifying ways when they fell in love and had a child. Their daughter, Charlie, has been gifted with the most extraordinary and uncontrollable power ever seen—pyrokinesis, the ability to create fire with her mind. Now the merciless agents of The Shop are in hot pursuit to apprehend this unexpected genetic anomaly for their own diabolical ends by any means necessary...including violent actions that may well ignite the entire world around them as Charlie retaliates with a fury of her own...

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In a special and startling way, King has created a small American gem of a story. (Chicago Tribune)

You’ll be bewitched by King’s ingenious insights into human behavior, unique characterizations and novel dialogue with its nuances of terror. (Columbus Dispatch)

The most tightly plotted of King’s chillers, this is also the most terrifying. For the evil here is human and wholly credible…His finest novel yet. (Cosmopolitan)

Stephen King is superb. He has written Carrie, The Shining, Salem’s Lot and The Dead Zone, among other bestsellers…This is his highest Fahrenheit reading yet. (Time Magazine)

Impressive…expert, fast-paced suspense…an exciting thriller. (Providence Journal)

Terrifying….meticulously realized backgrounds and strong threads of human compassion…a gripping piece of entertainment. (Miami Herald)

Heartstopping suspense. (Denver Post)

Relentless horror on a grand scale….a hefty adventure…exhilarating. (New Haven Register)

Excellently plotted horror…the momentum never flags…the sweaty brow of the reader as he rapidly turns those pages makes it obvious that Stephen King has done it again. (Cincinnati Enquirer)

The master of the psychothriller deftly weaves his plot…King at his best. (Associated Press)

Stephen King serves up a new sizzler…hot…King does this genre better than anyone else out there. (Playboy)

Eerie, scary…goes beyond frightening. (Publishers Weekly)

When the story gets going, it really cooks…boy, does he deliver. (Fort Wayne News Sentinel)

Fired with imagination and protest. (Philadelphia Inquirer)

There is no question that in the contemporary realm of Horror and the Supernatural, Stephen King is, well, king of the genre. (Houston Chronicle)

Frightening, compelling. (Indianapolis Star)

Great reading. (Baltimore Sun)

About the Author

Stephen King is the author of more than sixty books, all of them worldwide bestsellers. His recent work includes Fairy Tale, Billy Summers, If It Bleeds, The Institute, Elevation, The Outsider, Sleeping Beauties (cowritten with his son Owen King), and the Bill Hodges trilogy: End of Watch, Finders Keepers, and Mr. Mercedes (an Edgar Award winner for Best Novel and a television series streaming on Peacock). His novel 11/22/63 was named a top ten book of 2011 by The New York Times Book Review and won the Los Angeles Times Book Prize for Mystery/Thriller. His epic works The Dark Tower, It, Pet Sematary, and Doctor Sleep are the basis for major motion pictures, with It now the highest-grossing horror film of all time. He is the recipient of the 2020 Audio Publishers Association Lifetime Achievement Award, the 2018 PEN America Literary Service Award, the 2014 National Medal of Arts, and the 2003 National Book Foundation Medal for Distinguished Contribution to American Letters. He lives in Bangor, Maine, with his wife, novelist Tabitha King.

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ASIN ‏ : ‎ B018ER7KK8
Publisher ‏ : ‎ Scribner; Reissue edition (January 1, 2016)
Publication date ‏ : ‎ January 1, 2016
Language ‏ : ‎ English
File size ‏ : ‎ 5051 KB
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Print length ‏ : ‎ 420 pages
Page numbers source ISBN ‏ : ‎ 0451167805
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Best Sellers Rank: #24,575 in Kindle Store (See Top 100 in Kindle Store)
- #25 in Horror Fiction Classics
- #74 in Movie Tie-In Fiction
- #105 in Science Fiction TV, Movie & Game Tie-In

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Stephen King is the author of more than fifty books, all of them worldwide bestsellers. His first crime thriller featuring Bill Hodges, MR MERCEDES, won the Edgar Award for best novel and was shortlisted for the CWA Gold Dagger Award. Both MR MERCEDES and END OF WATCH received the Goodreads Choice Award for the Best Mystery and Thriller of 2014 and 2016 respectively.

King co-wrote the bestselling novel Sleeping Beauties with his son Owen King, and many of King's books have been turned into celebrated films and television series including The Shawshank Redemption, Gerald's Game and It.

King was the recipient of America's prestigious 2014 National Medal of Arts and the 2003 National Book Foundation Medal for distinguished contribution to American Letters. In 2007 he also won the Grand Master Award from the Mystery Writers of America. He lives with his wife Tabitha King in Maine.

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Took me away as usual :)

Reviewed in the United States on June 15, 2018

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Mr. King has probably saved my life more times than I can remember. I've been in some dark holes within my own mind and his stories help to bring a little light when I'm absolutely lost. I know this isn't a review of Firestarter but I have wanted to tell Mr. King how much he has helped me along the way for a long time. I will consider this my message in a bottle and hope it washes up along some special beach in the Northeast 😉 Thanks SK...you the man!

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Much better than the movie

Reviewed in the United States on June 15, 2022

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This is a well written book. As opposed to the movies which were terribly this was quite good. If you like Stephen King I highly recommend this

Reviewed in the United States on June 19, 2022

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This is one of my favorite king books i loved the character of charley and loved the build up and the ending. Cant wait to see the movie now

Still holds up.

Reviewed in the United States on March 5, 2020

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I've been reading Stephen King for a long time. I'm a sixtytwo year old Constant Reader and I've been reading since around 1975-76 or so. I read Firestarter a long time ago and I wondered if it would hold up. It does. This is a really good story and you come to travel with Charlie and Andy and actually care about the characters. The part that lets you know that you are in the hands of an artist and not a hack is that you also can sorta, kinda, understand the "baa guy's" point of view. Not that you ever root for them. Especially, the main psycho John Rainbird but you do come to at least see why they feel the way they do. It also takes you back to a time of no instant internet or cell phones or blogs or youtube. You had a the national newspapers such as the New York Times and the Washington Post and a slew of hometown papers and that was about it. No 24 hour news cycle or internet and the feeling is much more claustrophobic as the noose tighten's around the main characters. They can't just whip out a cell phone and alert the world via social media. One more thing that I really liked was the Afterword. It has the usual "thanks to him and her and all the ships at sea" but it also talks about actual U.S. and at that time Soviet research into psychic phenomena. I've been interested in the fringe for most of my life. So, I found it interesting that perhaps my favorite author has at one time or another actually peeked a little into the rabbit hole. I suggest in real life a youtube channel called "New Thinking Allowed" with Jeffery Mislove for some actual Remote Viewing and other serious research that has and is being done. Anyway, back to the book and the story. I highly recommend this one. Good stuff.

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Andrea D. Stains

Reviewed in the United States on May 21, 2020

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I have not yet began this book. However, I have many other Stephen King novels, and have never been disappointed. If you are a reader, I would suggest this a must buy.

One person found this helpful

Reviewed in the United States on June 14, 2022

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Bought as a gift and he is thrilled with it.

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Reviewed in the United States on April 29, 2021

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Love this book

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Always Loved This Story

Reviewed in the United States on July 26, 2021

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I have always loved Stephen King's work. This is one of my two favorites of his. I bought this copy to replace a copy I had for years that was falling apart.

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Mr. G. Staples

Hot stuff

Reviewed in the United Kingdom on February 5, 2022

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Another early king novel, a thrilling story of how far you'll go to protect your privacy and family, a father on the run with his little button being chased by a government outfit the shop, brilliant read onwards to roadwork then Cujo

Robbie Boot

Thoroughly enjoyed it

Reviewed in the United Kingdom on January 27, 2021

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Granted it isn’t Carrie or The Shining, but it was certainly a lot better than I thought it would be.

It even perhaps has the creepiest character I’ve encountered in a King Novel.

hamptoncherry

It will not outshine King's earlier stories

Reviewed in the United Kingdom on July 24, 2014

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Did I like it? It was OK. Was it interesting? It was if I think of characters.

Stephen King is normally very good with creating characters that seem multi-dimensional and rarely entirely black and white. I like reading about what they THINK and what they FEEL and why they DO such and such after.

The plot is predictable though, the ending is sort of predictable too, but left hanging in the mid air.

Stephen King has written much better books, his short stories are absolutely brilliant. Read this one but do not expect too much.

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Kez

Classic King

Reviewed in the United Kingdom on April 13, 2022

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Great read, film has kept almost faithful to the book.
Not so much chilling as a dramatic read. I recommend.

K. Wright

An all-time favourite

Reviewed in the United Kingdom on May 7, 2015

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This is probably my joint favourite book by Stephen King alongside The Stand. I have read it countless times since my teens and it has never lost its power to completely enthral me from the very first word. There is nothing I dislike about this story and it is like an old favourite blanket to pull out when you need to escape. Comfort reading at its best.

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