First, allow me to complain bitterly that the cover for this one on Goodreads absolutely does not match the copy I am holding, which is the Stephen King Collector's edition published by Plume in 1994. I even tried searching by ISBN. Why people sell these things to McKay is beyond me.

Complaints aside, I'm having much fun revisiting early Stephen King. I'm still trying to decide where to draw the line between "early" and "recent." The man published Carrie in 1974. By the time I was born in 84, he had something like 18 or 19 books published, counting weird stuff like graphic novels and the odd piece of nonfiction.

Anyway, Firestarter is all about Big Brother and mental powers--pyrokinesis among other things. I remain oh so impressed by King's writing style. None of the handful of other horror author's I've dabbled in can come anywhere close to his talent for conjuring up normal, convincing people--and then making you see so clearly whatever it is he's subjecting them to.