Product Description

A Stephen King story featuring a sinister government agency, a fateful drug experiment, and a pigtailed girl named Charlie, who has an unimaginably terrifying gift.

Product Details

• Amazon Sales Rank: #130754 in Books
• Published on: 1993-05-13
• Original language: English
• Binding: Paperback
• 510 pages

About the Author
Stephen King was born in Portland, Maine in 1947. Since publication of his first novel CARRIE he has become perhaps the bestselling author in the world today.

Customer Reviews

Unbelievable: I didn't want it to end.
The dramatic effect of throwing readers in at the deep end with Andy and Charlie already on the run is pulled off perfectly by King, with flashbacks explaining the more intricate details of the experiments and the Shop agency. When I first saw this, I thought it would be a cheap version of Carrie, but I found this far more entertaining, with more interesting characters and a much more satisfying conclusion. The superntatural backdrop is hardly as much a basis for the story as a trademark of Stephen King's macabre style. Also well researched, with mutations, telepathy and pyrokinesis. Amazing.

Excellent!!!
I've read a few Stephen King books. I'm only 12, and sometimes I find it very hard to concentrate, but in Firestarter I just never lost intertest. I would recommend it to good readers of my age, as it has very little unapropriate content, unlike King's other books.The story may seem shallow at first, a girl and her father running away from the government agency "The Shop", the girl with a supernatural power to set things on fire. Ripping off Carrie? No, after the father and daughter are caught and imprisonned, thats where the story really takes place! Excellent story and charachters, I recommend this to new readers as well as hardcore SK fans.

Excellent!
Having already taken in Insomnia, The Stand, and Salem's lot, I was already a Stephen King fan before I read Firestarter but this one re-affirmed my love of Kings books. The book follows Andy and Charlie who are on the run from a government agency known as 'the shop' who want to find out what makes the little girl (Charlie) tick and how they can make use of the pryrokenetic power she possesses. The story while the pair are on the run is gripping but the book gets better once the pair are in the grip of 'the shop'. The reader comes to identify with the characters as they are seperated for months, the little girl desperate to see her daddy, the parent not knowing what's happening to his child. King's writing is so exceptional that you can't help but go through a range of emotions by simply reading the words on the page to the point where you wish there was something you could do to help Andy and Charlie, you want them to get one over on the shop, you want Charlie to be able to escape and live a normal life with Andy.

A Gripping Novel with a tear-jerker ending.

If you're going to read any of Kings work, start with FIRESTARTER!!