Specifications: comes out in 1983, and is a novel long enough, about 630 pages. In the same year, leaving the film version, obviously the same name. Edition recommended and cost: Sperling paperback; cost approximately € 10.40.
Comment: The novel tells the story of a boy (Arnie) and his car, a Plymouth of 1958, known as Christine. The car was bought by the young, with their savings, a old man named Roland.
Arnie is what can be described as the "nerds" who spent most of his time fixing this old carcass, to put it back to its former glory, leaving for other reasons unrelated to their peers (except those with his dear friend Dennis).
Meanwhile, with the improvement of Christine, also improve those psycho-physical guy, so that exits with one of the most beautiful girls in the school. But at the same time it also changes its character: it becomes more and more cynical and introverted and relationships with some of the neighborhood bully gets worse and worse.
Until the quiet town must cope with some mysterious deaths, and some incidents which, coincidentally, they all seem to bring Arnie (which still provides sufficient excuse) because the dead are the very people that have put the sticks between the wheels or other elements with which it has had recent discussions (see the bullies of the neighborhood).
Besides the girl relationships are not the most idyllic: it even seems that the machine is directed against, perhaps jealous of his relationship with Arnie. And here the investigations of his friend Dennis passed on the machine and its former master, bringing to light aspects of concern, thinking and talking about a car with their feelings, cynical and murderous.
Leaving out the ending, which I leave to the readers, I think it's definitely a nice book and well written. Interesting choice to write the first and the third part of the book in first person (point of view of his friend Dennis, never Arnie) and second in the third person omniscient.
This time the nightmare is a killing machine, thinking and feelings, but as in the case of a little Cujo the fact that the villain is clear and obvious from the outset, been a while that is a bad hard to ... as a result we characterize a novel is not exceptional, although the idea of \u200b\u200ba machine that determines its master is good and well described.
not an absolute masterpiece, to be honest.
Overall Rating: 6 +
