false <![CDATA[Firestarter]]> http://photo.goodreads.com/books/1172964548m/233667.jpg 233667 38 You are about to meet the sweetest, most irresistible little girl you've ever known -- 8-year-old Charlie McGee. She's everything that a proud father like Andy McGee could want -- and all that he can fear. For Charlie was born with the most destructive power a human being has ever commanded -- and somehow she must be saved from both herself and from those in high places who want to use her as their weapon. Meet Charlie McGee -- and see what happens when innocence and beauty ignite with evil and terror... 1803 1980 Firestarter total:12564|5:2228|4:4023|3:4817|2:1341|1:155| 12564 44520 14660 244 4 1 false false Wed Jan 16 00:00:00 -0800 2002 Mon Jan 19 07:06:41 -0800 2009 Mon Jan 19 07:07:47 -0800 2009
When Andy McGee (the above-mentioned man) was in college, he joined in an experiment to make a quick two hundred dollars. This experiment wa...more...]]> 4 1 false false Fri Mar 13 00:00:00 -0700 2009 Wed Oct 08 09:48:23 -0700 2008 Fri Mar 13 04:51:19 -0700 2009
It's much denser than the books I've been reading lately by King -- Cell and From A Buick...more...]]> 4 1 false false Sat Jun 01 00:00:00 -0700 2002 Thu Sep 27 20:49:17 -0700 2007 Sat Nov 24 15:38:00 -0800 2007
It's the story about a man and a woman who were involved in a round of clinical experiments when they went to college. Th...more...]]> 4 0 false false Mon Apr 01 00:00:00 -0800 1985 Tue Jul 21 19:45:00 -0700 2009 Tue Jul 21 19:58:55 -0700 2009 1
The reason I liked Firestarter--and the movie based, somewhat ragg...more...]]> 5 0 false false Sun Jan 01 00:00:00 -0800 1989 Thu Jul 09 17:27:01 -0700 2009 Thu Jul 09 17:27:49 -0700 2009 While the novel revolves around pyrokenesis, it also describes the secrecy and greed of the government, and how they manipulate their citizens to satisfy their own needs. Charlie McGee, an innocent little 7 year old, has a ter...more...]]> 3 0 false false Thu Dec 04 00:00:00 -0800 2008 Thu Dec 04 04:39:45 -0800 2008 Thu Dec 04 04:40:18 -0800 2008
Seconde partie du livre très très endormante sur une durée de près ...more...]]> 5 0 false false Fri Mar 13 11:13:29 -0700 2009 Fri Mar 13 11:24:07 -0700 2009
The main character, Charlie, is a young girl with pyrokinesis- the ability to start fire...more...]]> 4 0 false false Thu Apr 01 00:00:00 -0800 1993 Mon Aug 17 19:50:27 -0700 2009 Sat Aug 22 17:48:55 -0700 2009 Firestarter is my favorite of his books, because it is not a typical King outing. The plot concerns a couple who met when they both volunteered for a secret government experiment into developing/enhancing ESP powers. They later married, and their da...more...]]> 4 1 false false Mon May 26 13:00:55 -0700 2008 Mon May 26 13:00:55 -0700 2008 more...]]> 4 0 false true Tue Sep 29 00:00:00 -0700 2009 Tue Sep 08 15:35:25 -0700 2009 Thu Oct 01 06:41:15 -0700 2009 Firestarter , by Stephen King, is a foray into the mysterious and the mystic world of the paranormal. Mr. King has written about the things locked in the closet and the dark horrors of the human mind, but he has never hooked us on a topic so close to that of science fiction. The story like mo...more...]]> 5 0 false false Wed Apr 29 14:34:17 -0700 2009 Wed Apr 29 14:34:17 -0700 2009
I know Stephen King is described as "horror" but this book screamed science fiction/adventure/suspense/thriller.

Stephen King was successful in making me feel for the McGee family and their desire/quest to live a "normal"...more...]]> 5 1 false false Sun Jan 01 00:00:00 -0800 2006 Sun Jun 29 19:02:17 -0700 2008 Sun Jun 29 19:04:16 -0700 2008 2 0 false false Sun Mar 01 11:46:12 -0800 2009 Sun Mar 01 11:46:12 -0800 2009
I devoured Koontz and King back in middle school and part of high school. In retrospect, I could have spent my time on better books, but these chillers were an escape from things I didn't want to think about, especially at night when I couldn't sleep and my mind twisted my percept...more...]]> 4 0 false false Mon Dec 22 12:07:44 -0800 2008 Mon Dec 22 12:12:37 -0800 2008 more...]]> 4 0 false false Sun Mar 15 15:59:58 -0700 2009 Sun Mar 15 16:14:31 -0700 2009 more...]]> 3 0 false false Tue Dec 23 13:43:54 -0800 2008 Tue Dec 23 13:48:17 -0800 2008 more...]]> 5 0 false false Wed May 06 18:31:22 -0700 2009 Fri Nov 20 16:48:31 -0800 2009 more...]]> 5 0 false true Sat Oct 11 15:23:37 -0700 2008 Sat Oct 11 15:44:33 -0700 2008 more...]]> 4 0 false false Wed Jan 01 00:00:00 -0800 1992 Tue Nov 13 11:42:50 -0800 2007 Tue Nov 13 11:42:50 -0800 2007 more...]]> 2 0 false false Sat Jul 01 00:00:00 -0700 1995 Thu Sep 20 12:42:21 -0700 2007 Mon Dec 03 13:27:59 -0800 2007 It's coming, he thought helplessly, It...more...]]> http://www.goodreads.com/book_link/follow/8?book_id=233667