Colorado Books

This book is great for a fan of the Denver Broncos. The photography is incrediable. The book traces the history of the Broncos and its players. While a good part of the book focuses on the victory of Super Bowl XXXII, it does not leave out previous seasons and super bowl losses. Different people contribute stories to the book including one from John Elway's wife, Janet which is a must read. You can not go wrong with the nicely made book.

Of all the pictorial truck books around, to me, this one tops them all. It is not just because the cover and the inside pages happen to have some sharp W900A extended hood Kenworths in all their glory. Peterbilt also features heavily in this edition and the book could have easily been entitled "Kenworth and Peterbilt in Colorado" because there is precious little of any other makes on these 96 glossy color pages.Oh well you can't help bad luck!
Truly stunning photography, great backdrops and interesting text to boot. An absolute must-have for bonneted Kenworth and Peterbilt fans.

Este libro es uno de los mejores que he leido ultimamente, muchos consejos que podemos utilizar en nuestra vida. Lo recomiendo muchisimo. This is one of the best books I have read lately. I loved it and I will recomend it to everybody.

This book is a very important piece of nostalgia concerning the history of the coachella valley and the date palm industry in california.It is also very important to those people who love the desert and would like to see what is was like to visit very remote and now popular hiking and camping areas before there were roads reaching the region. buy this book!!

Your Personal Wedding Planner has all the tips in one place, relieve the stress and keep organized. It's a great tool and should make your planning easier and more effective. Tom Harper, The Food Guy- Denver, CO

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Cassie Bernall, 17, was being shot at the Littleton tragedy. Her mother describes the day her daughter was murdered, their last chat, the nail-biting wait for a lifesign from her. She also describes Cassies development as a teenager, her getting in touch with satanic thoughts and how this affects their family life. An unexptected and profound u-turn in Cassies life towards the christian faith changes her personality. Not only her mother, but other members of the family as well as fellow students and youthworkers report on Cathie both before and after her turning to Christ.

spelling style: easy to read

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Cassie wrote down many of her thoughts. The reader finds pearls for him- or herself in these thoughts which are quite deep for a teenager.
I find the balanced presentation of Cassie to be remarkable. We learn about her negative sides as well as about the good ones. I can not see a martyr figure being illustrated.
A handwritten letter from the family of one of the murderers is not only interesting but impressive.

And the ageless message to do good to those that we love, is being written into the reader's soul.

I guess I am not the only reader who would want to hug mother Bernall after having read about her incredible loss. I wish her peace and comfort for each day.

There is no doubt this book will touch and change the lives of many people. It is indeed a powerful testimony of a child who was delivered from the kingdom of darkness into the kingdom of God, and two loving parents who gave the best gift to their child, love. Yes, this book is about love. Say yes to God and you will be saved. There is a God who will judge heaven and earth whether you believe it or not. If you don't believe in God you're not smart, because the Devil believes in God and you don't.

The book annoyed me in the following ways:
1. It's not true, from everything else I've heard and read. Another girl was asked if she believed in God. Not Cassie
2. She could of made it more exciting, more intense. So we could feel her pain as Cassie's mother, but I felt nothing

I did like it because I did learn about Columbine and how parents figured things out.

I feel that even if it wasn't actually Cassie that said I believe this is still so important to show the humanity of the people that were killed. I definately would NOT say it's a Christian myth that the shootings were at least partly blamed on religion. The boys did ask the girl beside her if she believed in God. And what about Rachel Scott. She was shot after confessing her faith. This was not just about trying to kill jocks or popular kids. These boys hated religion and mocked God and basically were saying if you believe in God let him save you. By letting the other girl survive it's almost their sick game of playing God and deciding who lives and dies. It's a terrorist scare tactic. But Cassie did believe in God and right before she was shot she was praying to God out loud to just let her go home. Then one of the boys pounded on the table she was under said peek a boo and shot her. If you don't believe her killing was motivated by her beliefs read Rachel's Tears and be assured it played a big part in who they killed.

Because I'm in school to study some form of criminology, I started to research the Columbine shooting about 2 months ago. Having read roughly 500 pages of the Columbine Report (which is basically an 11,000 page report containing interviews and such from the teachers and students that were present at Columbine High School on April 20th, 1999), I knew that Cassie Bernall was NOT asked the infamous "Do you believe in God?" question so when I saw the title of this book, I was a bit curious as to why Cassie's mother would sort of "cash in" on the rumors/myths surrounding the shooting death of her daughter. I bought the book in hopes that it would answer my question. And here is what I learned.

The truth is (and believe me, I'm not trying to preach about my views on religion... I'm trying to express my views on this book by debunking the Columbine myths that make this book not credible), a girl named Valeen was asked the "Do you believe in God?" question. She at first said no, then said I don't know, then said yes. When asked by Eric Harris why she believed in God, her response was something along the lines of "Because that was how my parents taught me". She was shot but survived. The only thing that was said to Cassie was "peek-a-boo". It is highly disturbing in my opinion that the ignorant public (led on by the media) including, apparently, Cassie's mother (in the book she says "People say that nothing happens without a purpose--that perhaps Cassie was fulfilling a divine plan, or that in standing up for her beliefs, she was being used by God to further His kingdom. At a certain level, I take comfort in these thoughts. They give meaning to what others have called a "senseless" tragedy, and remind me that a life cut short need not to be a wasted life."), attempt to make Cassie's death more admirable than the other 12 innocent victims. If Valeen had not survived, I'm sure that people would disregard the fact that she said "no" at first. Because, apparently, being religious makes one's death more honorable than those who are not religious.

Look, the book isn't written badly. However, the title of the book and the deep inferences that suggest Cassie died because of her religion honestly disgust me. Those who do not know the truth behind her death will be lead to believe that she WAS asked the question, said yes, and ultimately paid the price by losing her life. This book is NOT supposed to be fiction. So to write it the way it was written make parts of the book lies.

That being said, had the book been mainly about the alleged question she was asked and her answer, I would have easily given this book 1 or 2 stars. But because Misty explains everything from the highlights AND the lowlights in Cassie's life (including Cassie's struggles with wanting to murder her parents) and she admits that Cassie would be upset that people are labeling her a martyr, I found myself able to get through the book rather quickly. Further, "She Said Yes" made me think about my own life and what I would want people to remember me for. For that, I chose to give this book 3 stars.

I'd recommend this book if you want to learn more about the Columbine massacre. The average person must know, however, that although Cassie might've said yes if she was asked the question, the fact is that she wasn't.

I thought this was one of the best books I ever read until the last 100 pages. Then it felt like the author just ran out of steam and tried to quickly rush through and tie everything up, covering many years in the process. It just didn't work given the beauty and complexity of the story up to that point. If not for that, I would have given it five stars easily.

I truly enjoyed this book. For me, it was a welcome foray into a semi-alternate universe, and truly worth the trip. My only qualm was the fact that Pelagia's reaction at the end was, in my opinion, just as a man would write it, not quite as a woman would actually live it. I was unconvinced, and ended up feeling like I had to compensate for her incomplete reaction by engaging in my own...if that makes any sense at all. Anyway, nuff said, don't wanna spoil it. Highly recommended it regardless.

This is a great book. I highly recommend it. It's a well written love story, similar to Love in the Time of Cholera.

I guess when we open a book we're all trying to recapture those halcyon days when we brought a flashlight to bed so we could continue or finish a favorite book, when we cried at the end, too. That doesn't happen much for me anymore, but when reading this book, I was actually crying in the middle and getting up at 3 a.m. to see how it ended. Besides the author's wonderful prose style, I enjoyed the portrayal of the Greek culture, so aptly portrayed as "the past in the present."

An unique love/war story.

This is my favorite of the two De Bernieres' novels I own; the other being 'Birds without Wings', which is excellent, but just not my first choice.

The novel is set in Greece during the Nazi/Italian occupation during WW II . It's a tale of the hardships during occupation, the Greek resistance and an developing relationship that begins between one of the Italian officers and Greek girl.

I simply loved this story. The prose is exquisite; it just makes you want to read on and on. And, despite the fact there was a war going on, there is an atmosphere of high romance and intrigue through out this novel, associated with not only the war, but the developing love story as well.

Conclusion:
Louis De Bernieres' very best work. Superb, skillful writing that has resulted in a tale well told and beautifully presented.
5 Stars, more if I could

R.Nicholson

T.S. Garp is the only child of the famous, yet constantly-misunderstood, Jenny Fields. Under her care he had a most peculiar upbringing and maybe...just maybe, that can help explain who he has become. For one thing, he has become a writer, like his mother, but he is different. His mother's memoirs, her only published work, are read by many as the original feminist manifesto. Garp writes fiction. The World According to Garp is exactly that: a glimpse of the world through the eyes of a man who was raised by the woman credited as the founder of the feminist movement, and is now married and raising children of his own.

I appreciate recommendations as much as, if not a little more than, the next guy. And this one came with a very passionate delivery. Anyone who can speak with that much resolve about a book has my attention. She did not tell me what it is about, just as I was unable to really tell anyone what it was about while I was reading it. She only told me that it was the best book she had ever read, and she seemed a credible source.

While it wasn't, necessarily, the best book I have ever read, I thoroughly enjoyed The World According to Garp. It took me awhile to get through it; each word seemed so carefully chosen that it deserved as much attention as the rest. From cover to cover I was captivated by the writing. A few sections of the book made me a little uncomfortable, but for the most part Garp was an interesting protagonist who was able to hold my attention.

The gentleman who sat next to me on an airplane as I read this book shared that he had enjoyed it when he read it. I told him my thoughts on the slow pace of the book and he said Irving writes each of his books that way, calling his writing very "Southern." I'm not sure if he was saying that so I wouldn't feel isolated in my opinion or as a caution should I ever choose to read Irving again. If he meant it as the latter I do not plan to heed his warning; I liked The World According to Garp and I am curious to read more from John Irving.

I read it when it was new. It's been, uh, nearly 30 years, and I still remember it. As a total, TOTAL waste of time. Never saw the point, of any of it. Boring plot, uninteresting characters. Unengaging. You know those songs you hear on the radio sometimes? Trying to be wise? That sound like someone sat down and said, I'm gonna write a song! And they wrote a song, just to have written a song? That's this book. He wrote it because he's a writer.

I am sensitive to style. So when I read people who say that the prose is so wunnerful, it is incomprehensible to me. Maybe Garp had a theme. Maybe it had a plot. It remains incomprehensible to me.


J

This book is fantastic. Irving deftly mixes humor with tragedy. His skill in undeniable. It is evident in every sentence. He possesses the ablility to make the reader laugh and cry within the same scene. Superbly written and universally meaningful, you cannot go wrong with The World According to Garp.

This is a serious effort by a skilled and hard This is a serious effort by a skilled and hard working writer. It will be immediately appealing to many readers, especially young men turning around 17 or 18 who have a smattering of education. It is definitely a page-turner, so it is only when one has time to reflect on it one realizes that there are some serious problems with this as a work and as a philosophy.

First, many of the most wonderful elements are clearly "found elements." Nothing wrong with this--most novelists steal shamelessly from the lives of everyone around them. And there is a real skill in storing away something like "the under toad" which presumably one of his younger relatives came up with and putting it in your book. But we then want to ask what is the key focus that Irving adds?

Two things are obviously gratuitous sex and violence. You can imagine that there is a philosophy or a point to this, but I think that falls apart when you see that this dude has some serious obsession with this stuff and a real hostility to women that comes out not in the wife's infidelity leading to the maiming and death of his children while at the same time satisfying Irving's desire for revenge over the cuckolding rival, but more in the bizarre world of psychopathic sex-negative feminists that he creates to battle and, masochistically and self-righteously, to be defeated by. That's pretty sophomoric--to imagine a world in which good guys get blown away by nasty crazy women.

And really, negative judgments are the heart of the novel. The key turning point for Garp (Irving) as a writer is the discovery of a writer he can without fear look down on. Trashing the mediocre is the way to greatness.

Now I'm not a writer, but I am a reviewer. And I have to say, any reviewer should know not to try to boost your own ego by tearing something down. Do you remember how God said to Job who was complaining and wishing he were dead, "Art thou so greatly aggrieved?" What's the big problem, buddy? Well, I wanted to say the same thing to Irving: were you so greatly aggrieved by Franz Grillparzer that you needed to try to make him an object of ridicule for all your readers? Did you also find it necessary to tease awkward children to be a hero on the playground? Or invent evil women to feel like a man?

The appeal of a corrupt philosophy is that it gives us the feeling of learning something while preventing us from actually making moral progress. I wish it weren't the case for this book -- it doesn't make me feel better about myself to say that this is a seriously flawed book; I recognize my own shortcomings! But that's the way it is. [51]

The accomplished fantasist Gene Wolfe has been quoted as saying that his definition of good literature is "that which can be read with pleasure by an educated reader, and re-read with increased pleasure." By that standard, The World According to Garp, at least in my mind, is good literature, one of the best books of the last half century, capturing post war America through the seventies in all its glory and absurdity.

Garp is one of those magical books that I reread every three or four years or so, a novel that affects me differently each and every time I have read it (eight times, as of this writing). Reading the paperback at age 19 in 1979 (remember those great multiple covers?) I saw it as a classic coming of age story, identifying strongly with the young Garp. Nearing age 48, I've come to see it as a cautionary tale about how important it is to cling to those you love, because life can get scary pretty quickly; now, I identify more with Jenny Fields and the older Garp in their roles as terrified parents. No matter how many times I read it, however, I find new things to marvel at, and nuances to appreciate.

I'd like to take the opportunity on this, the thirtieth anniversary of the publication of this worthy, award winning bestseller, to celebrate the novel's complexities and charm, by mentioning some of its themes, settings, and, more importantly, its huge supporting cast. The three main characters, Jenny Fields, Helen Holm, and Garp himself have been rightly celebrated elsewhere. Vivid and memorable and eccentric and oh so human, they are fascinating, their triumphs and travails and quirks making for riveting reading. But, it's the problems they face, and the people they interact with, through which Irving reveals their character, making for a book that's by turns whimsical, poignant, sad, and laugh out loud funny, a book full of sorrow and lunacy, but also grace and hope.

For those of you who've read the book, I merely have to mention subject matter like lust, writing, bears, wrestling, fame, intolerance, and feminism to evoke the book for you. Let me add The Steering Academy, Vienna, and Dog's Head Harbor, just to widen the smile doubtlessly growing on your face. What about Garp's stories and novels, such as "The Pension Grillparzer," Procrastination, Second Wind of the Cuckold, and The World According to Bensenhaver? Now, to top everything off, let me list, in no particular order, a portion of the immense and varied supporting cast to send you deep into a fond reverie: Technical Sergeant Garp, Dean Bodger, Fat Stew Percy, Midge Steering Percy, Cushie Percy, Pooh Percy, Bonkers the dog, Ernie Holm, Ellen James, the Ellen Jamesians, Roberta Muldoon, Mrs. Ralph, Walt, Duncan, John Wolf, Jillsy Sloper, Harrison and Alice Fletcher, Charlotte the whore, Michael Milton, Mrs. Truckenmiller, and last, but certainly not least, the Under Toad.

To those who haven't yet experienced this dark Dickensian wonder, I hope these words and the lists above intrigue you, and lead you to pick up a copy of this ultimately uplifting and, dare I say, inspirational novel. If, as according to the book's final sentence, we are, in the end, "all terminal cases," thank goodness that there are books like this to ease our burdens for a moment or two as we march on towards our inevitable fates.

Do yourself a favor and pick up this book... Absolute page turner... Not heavy stuff here so perfect for a beach read... So curl up, listen to the waves and enjoy... I liked this one so much that I am off to search for some more by this author...

I have some thoughts I'd like to share with other readers of Perfect.

First, there were times I didn't like Zachary at all. When I compare him to my other two favourites Judith's heroes - Clayton and Ian, whom I love from begining to end, I find something in Zack that bothers me. I don't know what it is, maybe his first name :-)

Then, again something different comparing to Whitney and Almost heaven: I can't wait to see the hero and heroine together, and in Perfect they meet at page number 111, but, strange to me, I wasn't impatient. I enjoyed the way Zack was plannig to escape from prison and his dramatic way to achieve it and when Zack and Julie said good bye in Colorado, I again wasn't nervous, I was curious not only about their love-story, but as well about the detective plot.

Next, I caught myself smiling when reading about Zack and Julie's play in snow. It was very sweet.

And finally,( I don't know if anybody had noticed it too) I got the feeling that Zack was Ian Thornton's great-great grandson. Why? Look at his surname - Stanhope - Ian was the future Duke of Stanhope. Zack has Ian's amber eyes, Zack's sister name is Elizabeth - just like Ian's wife, and brother of Zack is called Alex - just like Ian's wife's best friend :-)

I recommend.

I absolutely love this book it is the best book i have ever read . i have read over 100 books and no other books {besides any of judith mcnaughts books} can compare to perfect it was just as the title says its perfect

So good. Can't wait to re-read. Judith makes the characters so likable. I wish she would write a hundred more books just like it.

This is by far the BEST book I have ever read! And this is coming from a gal who rarely reads a love story of any type. Zack and Julie develop a love that transcends time...and how they get to that part is one wild ride. He is got to be the sexiest character that I have ever read, and Julie is the luckiest heroine ever. Their story touched my soul. I have never read a book - no matter how good it was, more than once until I first read Perfect. I now have to replace my dog-eared copy that I have let everyone on the planet borrow, with another so it will hold a place of honor in my library. Outstanding read and I recommend this perfect book to everyone who will lend me an ear. I would give it 10 stars if I could....and Zack, I now look for you in every man.

Christine is by far my faveorite of all stephen kings novels. The story of a posessed car and the teenager that loves her. I can relate to the character of roland lebay and his spirit of unending vengeance. This is not only a must read for all of us stephen king fans but i would highly recommend to non stephen king fans. Its just an incredible book all the way around.

Christine

Stephan King


Arnie takes one look at Christine and falls in love. Christine isn't any girl, she is a car. Like with any new relationship Arnie spends all his time with Christine, rather than with Dennis, his best friend. The only thing that matters to Arnie is Christine. Then Arnie's enemies all mysteriously die all at once once. All the things that Arnie used to love now disgust him. He also lashes out at everyone he used to love for only small problems. Dennis is having nightmares about Christine. Arnie is changing, in a bad way.
I think that Christine is a very exciting read. The way King can make his dialogue believable really pulls me into the story. When you think about a possessed car you would probably think the story is dumb but King makes the story scary. I love the way King can draw you into the book. This book is a Stephan King masterpiece. Read this book if you love a good plot, a little bit of drama, suspense, good character descriptions, fantastic dialogue, and of course a good scare. It is amazing the way King can make a story about an evil car believable and scary, but at the same time funny.




By:
Tommy
S.

I've read a lot of Stephen King's books. In general he tends to have a lot of stories that are character driven. The major characters in this story have really great character development behind them. A reader will really get to know his major characters in this story. Stephen King really captured what and how a typical teenager thinks. It makes for a very rich love story and great supernatural thriller.

I often forget how great this novel really is. Don't be fooled by the pathetic movie they made from this book, which eliminated a good portion of the plot, focusing solely on the car, as opposed to its late owner, Roland LeBay. It's his twisted, evil personality that is the catalyst for most of what takes place in the novel, he who with the aid of Christine comes to possess Arnie Cunningham. This novel is less about the 'killer car' then the nature of the relationships between the characters. Arnie and Dennis, Arnie and Leigh, Arnie and his parents, and Dennis and Leigh. It's about the travails of high school, seen both from the perspective of the outsider (Arnie) and the insider (Dennis). It's about possession as Arnie loses more and more of himself to LeBay as the novel goes on. It's about teenage romance, both in the physical sense and in the experience of freedom a man has with his first car, as well as a love affair with rock and roll. Each chapter in fact is prefaced by lyrics from rock songs referencing automobiles. It explores a lot of the same themes as "The Body" found in SK's Different Seasons, about how growing up involves losing and sometimes even betraying the things we love. It's also a well written horror yarn about a relentlessly angry dead man and his pet demon car bent on getting revenge on the world that he hates and mistrusts. It's LeBay's fury that drives the book to its ultimate conclusion.

I have a lot to say about Stephen King's "Christine". Unfortunately, most of it is negative. Like many of King's books, I was drawn into the novel as soon as I opened it. Within the first 50 pages the reader is introduced to a handful of well developed, interesting characters, and an intriguing plot begins to build. It isn't until the last 150 pages or so that it starts to go downhill. And once it starts to go downhill, the story continues to suffer right up to the very last page. I can't say much more without ruining the book for those who haven't read it yet, so from here on in my review will be full of spoilers.



**SPOILERS**
I had some major gripes with this book, and I'm not even sure where to start. The most obvious problem was that be book was simply too wordy. This is one of King's trademarks and I knew this going in, so I guess it's kind of a moot point. Another thing that bothered me was the general format. I understand that it was supposed to be a memoir told from the first person perspective, but what about the middle of the book where it's told from the third person? It reveals things that Dennis couldn't possibly know and would leave a significant gap in his story if anyone were to read it. I guess that's why King told the second part of the novel from a third person perspective, but it makes the overall format inconsistent and prevents story from flowing naturally.

My biggest problem with this book was Christine. The novel's title is "Christine" and throughout the book the reader is led to believe that the car itself is evil. It isn't until toward the end of the novel that the reader finally figures out (and this point was never made entirely clear) that Christine isn't evil, nor is she even all that important. The driving force behind the car (and the true source of evil) is LeBay. So if Christine doesn't have a persona of her own, what's the point of giving it a name and a gender? If the car isn't even important, why is it the title of the book? It could have been an interesting plot twist of handled correctly, but the issue is never explicitly addressed. Left as it is, it misleads the reader and is ultimately self defeating.
When we first meet LeBay, he's a grumpy old war veteran with a taste for bigotry and a mouth as foul as a sewer. He sells his rusty old car to Arnie (who is inexplicably drawn to it) and he laughs evilly after making the transaction. So what would this lead the average horror fan to believe? It would seem logical that the car is possessed and had brought great misfortune to LeBay. When Arnie is suddenly drawn to the car it's because the car has chosen a new victim. LeBay realizes that he can finally be free of the cursed car and relinquishes it to its new victim. Stereotypical? Yes, but it works. Unfortunately this is not how the story plays out. And as a result, it leaves the reader with a lot of unanswered questions.
If the car wasn't possessed in and of itself, then what was it that made Arnie want it so badly? And what exactly went through LeBay's mind when he sold Arnie the car and began to laugh? "I'll die as soon as I sell this car only to be reincarnated in the form of ghost and possess the car in order to... um... I guess I'll figure it out when I get there..." Does this make any sense to you? If you think about it, this is what must have happened.
Setting aside the absurd concept of LeBay knowing that he would die and possess the car, what exactly was his motivation? Normally when we read books about evil characters who die only to continue their evil after death, it's for a specific purpose. In most cases it's because they have unfinished business (usually in the form of revenge that has yet to be issued). From what I can tell, LeBay just wanted to continue to be a jerk from beyond the grave. What kind of motivation is that? I'm not buying it.

Another thing that bothered me was Dennis's plan to get rid of Christine. After brainstorming with Leigh he has a brilliant revelation that is hidden from the reader until the very end of the book. And his incredible plan is to... beat the living crap out of it? I'm pretty sure he realized that every time Christine received a blow she was able to heal herself, so why would his plan be any different?
And then when Christine is compacted into a cube and Dennis has finally moved on, years later he discovers that one of the kids who helped mess up the car about half-way through the book is mysteriously killed... by a car. Now, Dennis makes a casual connection that it may be Christine, and points out the possibility that it could be after him and Leigh next, but not only does he not sound particularly concerned about it, he basically says that the story is over. It's clear as day to the reader that Christine had finally recovered and was, in fact, continuing her mission to kill everyone who crossed her. How could he not know that, and how could he not even care? If not for himself, he should at least have been afraid for Leigh (for whom he still had romantic feelings for despite the fact that she was married). And what does he do in response to this news? He ends the story. Seriously, what the Hell?

Yet another point to add to the list was the fact that Arnie died. Dennis nearly gets himself killed for one main goal: kill Christine in order to save Arnie. He successfully kills Christine (or so he thought at the time) and Arnie dies anyway! And what's worse is that it was never made quite clear how this even happened. Dennis hypothesized that when Christine was getting creamed, LeBay retreated back to Arnie's body... and then he and his mother died in a car accident. I guess I can kind of see it, but it desperately needs clarification.
And I just don't understand why Arnie had to die. Don't get me wrong, it's not that I don't like it when main characters die in books, it's just that death should add depth to the story. In this case, it simply doesn't. To me it seems like it was only thrown in for shock value, while failing to add any real value to the book. I generally don't like happy endings in horror novels, but I felt like this story could have gotten away with it.

I could go on, but this review is too long as it is. In a nutshell, this book severely lacks something that most Stephen King books are overflowing with: Explanation. Reminiscent of King's "The Dark Half", "Christine" never really reveals the true origin of the evil force, nor does it even give enough clues to begin to form a larger picture. As a result, the leader is left scratching his or her head thinking, "What just happened?"

It's a real shame. This could have been an excellent story.