Book info

• Title Christine
• Author Stephen King
• Year 1983
• Genre Horror

This is the story of a lover's triangle... It was bad from the start. And it got worse in a hurry. Christine is eating into his mind, burrowing into his unconscious. Christine, blood-red, fat, and finned, is twenty. Her promise lies all in her past. Greedy and big, she is Arnie's obsession, a '58 Plymouth Fury. Broken down but not finished. There is still power in her - a frightening power that leaks like sump oil, staining and corrupting. A malign power that corrodes the mind and turns ownership into Possession.

Thoughts

I’m surprised it’s taken me so long to read this book, given the name of it hits so close to home. But here we are, and whilst I knew it was a horror book about a sentient car, I didn’t know much else about it. I enjoyed the fundamental story, the elements here and there that add up to horror but in and of themselves aren’t too scary. I think it was a little bit drawn out, quite a long book for the story contained within, but a small complaint for another Stephen King classic.

Rating: 3 / 5