Firestarter

By: Stephen King

Narrated by: Dennis Boutsikaris

Master storyteller Stephen King presents the classic #1 New York Times bestselling thriller, “his highest Fahrenheit reading yet” (Time).

Andy McGee and Vicky Tomlinson were once college students looking to make some extra cash, volunteering as test subjects for an experiment orchestrated by the clandestine government organization known as The Shop. But the outcome unlocked exceptional latent psychic talents for the two of them—manifesting in even more terrifying ways when they fell in love and had a child. Their daughter, Charlie, has been gifted with the most extraordinary and uncontrollable power ever seen—pyrokinesis, the ability to create fire with her mind. Now the merciless agents of The Shop are in hot pursuit to apprehend this unexpected genetic anomaly for their own diabolical ends by any means necessary...including violent actions that may well ignite the entire world around them as Charlie retaliates with a fury of her own...

Bad editing

Great book. Editing is horrible. Constantly cutting off words and makes you question if you're hearing the entire book. This happened on more than 2 dozen occasions.

awesome, narrator speaks fast

narrator speaks fast but otherwise awesome book, my favorite kind novel to date. I will listen to this again

it's a good work of Stephen King's

it's a good work of Stephen King's it's not his best but it's good Stephen King fan will understand what I mean

Classic King, still a great story!

I really enjoyed listening to this story, having read it years ago. It is a bit simplistic in its writing, but the context is as heart wrenching as ever. Great narration too!

Great not amazing

Great book . Did not wow me but didn’t put it down . Easy read ….. A- grade

A classic

Took me awhile to get to this book and I'm glad I did a classic.

classic thriller

I would call this B-level King, but since his B is higher than most people's A, it's still worth reading.

The first half is a chase and the cat and mouse game between Andy, Charlie and the Shop agents is my favorite part of the book.

The second half is more of a psychological thriller with characters manipulating each other. Its all fairly interesting, but this section felt more sluggish, even though I did love the ending.

John Rainbird is one of Kings least appreciated great villains and I really loved how King goes so deep into detail with him in ways that pushes him past a generic bad guy and into a truly terrifying character.

A good read if you're looking for a pulpy thriller.

The Weird Pauses

At times, the weird pauses occur midsentance. Luckily, I knew to expect them. Other than the little interruptions, the story and performance are excellent.

It has been many years since I saw the movie, but from what I remember, it stayed true to the book.

Great read

This was better the second time around as an adult and I liked it the first time as a child

Interesting story

In the beginning of the book I wasn’t too interested but slowly as the story unfolded I was drawn in. I really like Charlie’s character. I liked the part in the book where we got to see Andy and Vicky meeting each other and then their experience with "Lot-6". Soooo it was an interesting book besides some of the weird racial comments but yeah