Firestarter

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Summary: U'll adore the girl!
Review: Reading this book U'll experience a plunge in the dramatic desperation of a girl with a monstrous and letal power. This cute and innocent creature is fighting for her life and her father. U would help her, U'll feel her power, U'll suggest her what to do, and U'll feel her same sadness. WO

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Summary: Amazing Plot, The King is still THE King
Review: I really loved this book, mostly because of the plot which I found really AMAZING. Stephen King's the best when it comes to characters, background, and plain old fashioned story telling. I just wish he wrote more books like this :)) Oh, and the book is about a guy who participated in a federal "drug" experiment, married another participant from that experiment, and got a daughter ... oh, and that "drug" experiment was to see if they could "give" humans some psychic powers, guess what happened to that child of theirs ? <evil grin> ... This is a MUST for ANY King Fan :)

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Summary: A Heartbreaker...
Review: I read this book a few years ago and it was great! You really feel sorry for the little girl whose life has treated her wrongly. She believes her one gift (being able to start fires with her mind) is a bad thing. A tear-jerker. You can't miss this one

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Summary: Overwhelming!!!
Review: King is THE MASTER. I can hardly wait for his last book. I have read this book five times!!

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Summary: This novel is chilling and a real page-turner!
Review: The Firestarter was by far one of the most haunting, chilling books I have ever read. The events were so realistic, and King makes it all seem possible. I couldn't put the book down

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Summary: Firestarter is boring in some parts, and dumb in others.
Review: Firestarter is one of King's worst books. It is horrible from beginning to end

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Summary: Burns your mind away !!
Review: This is the first book written by Steve that I read . This is also the first book that kept me firmly to a particular author - I became obsessed with his works - buying one after one of his many books throughout the years . Stephen King did a marvelous job here to potray the most basic emotions - love , hate , lust and obsession - all finely mixed up to produce a masterpiece of today's horror genre

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Summary: "Hot"
Review: The victims of a "harmless" college experiment to make some money, the parents of the young girl that can start fires just buy thinking it find themselves with powers of their own. The father has the power of persuasion and ends up in a compound with his daughter, the firestarter.

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Summary: A poor representation of Stephen King's true abilities
Review: I've read many books by Stephen King including "The Stand", the first five of the "Dark Tower" series, "Thinner", "Misery", etc. All of them have left me speechless about how someone could weave a story from nothing, into something that left me craving for more. After my completion of Firestarter however, I was not wanting more, and in fact, I could've done with less. Many of Stephen King's novels are written in a sense that he had some sort of great inspiration, but sadly "Firestarter" seemed to lack inspiration of any sort. If you've read the story, you're well aware that it's about a little girl named Charlie that has the ability to create fires using only her mind... I hope this strikes you as weird, considering it's so basic compared to some of King's other wiritings, such as "The Stand" where he wrote 1000+ pages about an apocolyptic plague that overthrew the better part of the planet, it just strikes me as funny that King would even joke about writing about a mutant who really can't even be called a mutant, seeing is that she has every human charactaristic everyone else did, except the ability to light fires. The plot was was well written, I can give him that, but his development of the characters was something I cannot give him. The story starts off talking about Andy and Charlie, and throughout the entire book, you only learn a few things about them. Overall I think this book could've been written better. I'm giving it a three out of five because I think King was in a slump, and we all get into those time after time.

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Summary: King Explores the Mind...
Review: Firestarter is a very inside book from King, with lots of descriptions and very interesting set pieces, from the LSD college experiments with people ripping themselves to shreds to the father of the girl who is now born with special fire starting powers and the government psycho who is trying to capture her, Firestarter has more pace than most King books and is actually more of an action/horror read with some very good descriptions of the thought process. Better than you might expect, this is yet another classic from King during his early days... the best era from him.