Christine is very under-rated. It might not be his best story wise, but its among his best for narration. The Dennis sections, and the Arnie section are distinct and among my favorite dual narrative.
The thing that impressed me the most about Christine was that it begins in the first-person, then the middle of the book switches to third-person, and the final third of the book goes back to first-person again. By the way, I go to the Monroeville Mall all the time. That was where Arnie and Leigh were watching the ice skaters right before she choked on the hamburger.
I have read the novel and watched the movie. I found that I couldn't put the book down. I have literally became engrossed in the book and before I knew it was 3 AM.
My favorite Stephen King books are in this order.. 1.) IT 2.) Pet Sematary 3.) Needful Things 4.) The entire Dark Tower series (all 8 novels) 5.) Salem's Lot 6.) Misery 7.) 11/22/63 8.) The Shining 9.) Doctor Sleep 10.) Insomnia 11.) The Stand 12.) Christine
@@megadev9099 Well, there's 8 novels but I included some other books/short stories tie-ins from King. There's also some comics King did that are directly related to The Gunslinger, The Little Sisters of Eluria, etc...but I haven't read those yet. I hope this makes sense to you.
@@megadev9099 I guess I really should edit it. To be honest, I was hesitant to count it as 13 instead of 8 back when I first commented this but it's true, there really is only 8 novels. I shouldn't count other tie-ins and such.
It's nice to see that someone else's copy looks even more dishevelled than mine. I got mine second hand and I love it's quite an old copy. It has so much more "character" than the newer editions. Hi from Germany!
Thank you for the awesome reviews. I discovered your videos on sheet accident. And I gotta say, I love all your SK stuff. Thanks for not being a snotty pretentious RUclips person, unlike so many others. Keep rockin, Decepticon!
First 2 mins of of your video is talking about page count because some people don't understand publishing and different book editions... don't stress out about those people. Or, at the very least, don't spend a lot of time (especially at the very beginning of your book) addressing those kind of complaints. Your review was top notch but I almost left because I didn't know how long the page-count explanation was gonna go on. Anyway, I just finished reading this book and I agree with your review 100%. This is one of the best King books I've read so far. Some people prefer the large cast of characters (like in The Stand), but I prefer his books that focus on a handful of characters: The Shining, Pet Semetary, Cujo, etc. Christine is now a part of that list. Thanks for your review, I'm now a subscriber. I enjoy seeing what other people thought about the books I read... completely backwards to how reviews are supposed to work, I know lol
My top 3 Stephen King film adaptations are in this order.. 1.) The Shawshank Redemption (Probably the greatest film of all time) 2.) The Green Mile 3.) Stand By Me
Great review. I didn't get the sense that Dennis was happy at the end of the book or had long to live before he gets hunted down and killed by Christine. Wonderful analysis relating it all to obsession. Christine is definitely one of my top 10 favorite Stephen King books.
Thanks for sharing your thoughts! Adored this book, finally got around to it. Was a fan of the film before, and I love how deep the book goes into all of the main characters. Very different nature of Christine's source of power tho, still getting over that drastic difference. Longest book I've read and it didn't feel like it, brezzed by and couldn't put it down!
I love reading out I've read so many different kinds of genres so I'm just an avid book reader who loves a good book something about Christine is so good that every couple years I can read that book over again
IT is my favorite too. I’m about to start rereading it again after I finish the Tower. Can’t wait. Thank you for your videos. I know I wouldn’t have given a lot of these books a chance. Like the Tower or Insomnia or The Stand. So thank you very much.
Dude, great review. I've seen the movie, but the book is in the mail and I'm getting ready to read it here soon. Exact same copy that you're holding in this video. This review has me pretty excited. I'm going to look and see if you have a Pet Sematary review now
Pleeeease review Desperation =) I've seen it requested as far back as 3yrs ago, and was curious if you have it scheduled in anytime soon..if you do, when? I really like listening to your reviews 💜💜💜 God bless
Hey! People can frick off man… I come for your reviews after I’ve read so I can immediately hear another reader’s thoughts and see if maybe I missed something…lol. I have this ritual that after every king book I read I seek your corresponding video. So for what it’s worth, pack it all in and do those rundowns of the story because you are good at getting it out quick, coherent and simple. Thanks for being my internet reading “buddy”!
Great Review Frosty, Do you think that King should return to the Christine story in the same way that he did with The Shining in Doctor Sleep? Would you like to see a 2nd Christine story set years and years after the 1st? Do you think a story like that could work? Keep being awesome.
In the NYE drive chapter, they drive by several 1950s cars. The last one is a new Ford Edsel considered one of Ford's worst production blunders, but also innovative in its design.
I love your reviews. I just finished this book and I’d say it’s one of my favorites as well. I usually like the Loser’s Club podcast and was looking forward to their episode on Christine when I finished it but they completely shat on it, and basically hated it. It was really disappointing
Good review of one of my favorite books. However, in your review, you seemed to delve more into a review of the film as opposed to the book. In the book, it wasn’t actually the car that comes alive, but rather the ghost of Roland Lebay that inhabits the car and eventually possesses Arnie. This was a huge difference between book and film, and some of the scariest scenes in the book were those of Rolands rotting corpse inhabiting and driving the car.
What you could have done was start your video camera and had us sit here and watch as you read the ENTIRE BOOK....then you would have looked up and said, "Pretty Good", ending with a two word review and a video that was 26 hours long. Just a tip...well, kind of.
I thought that Dennis's and Arnie's relationship was more complicated than you did. Yes, there was some pity involved on Dennis's part--maybe even some subconscious disgust at Arnie's "loser"-ness. I'm thinking of a specific scene where Arnie burst into tears in Dennis's car, and though Dennis held him, he was made so uncomfortable by this that in that moment he "didn't want to be his friend." Maybe partly due to toxic masculinity and partly because he didn't want to be associated with Arnie's inability to "keep it all together." But when Dennis got home his younger sister playfully roasted Arnie behind his back and Dennis wanted to kill her, because he could still feel Arnie's tears on his shirt and he was feeling protective. Perhaps another reason why you thought that the friendship was mainly based on Dennis's pity might have been due to Dennis dating Arnie's girlfriend. But I didn't think that denoted Dennis feeling any less affection for his friend, so much as it denoted Dennis's selfishness, immaturity, possibly his attachment to his own social status (which he could further cement by dating a pretty girl like Leigh) and basically his failure to apply "love" as a verb to his relationship with Arnie even though I think he legitimately felt it to some degree. Also, at the end, I don't remember perceiving that Dennis felt relief at all when Arnie was killed. I only remember his grief.
Whaaaat?! If anything you give too little away in your reviews! F@ck it! just do summary videos so people won't complain. I would watch that all day loooong.
Christine, The Shining, and It are my three favourite Stephen King books. Great review!
Reading "Christine" now, and it is MUCH darker than the movie.
Christine is one of my favorite King books as well. Great review thanks Frosty.
My top 3 are
1. Christine
2. Misery
3. The Shining
Christine is very under-rated. It might not be his best story wise, but its among his best for narration. The Dennis sections, and the Arnie section are distinct and among my favorite dual narrative.
It was hard to find review of this book on my native Russian, so that's my first English book review. You're great! Thank you!
The thing that impressed me the most about Christine was that it begins in the first-person, then the middle of the book switches to third-person, and the final third of the book goes back to first-person again. By the way, I go to the Monroeville Mall all the time. That was where Arnie and Leigh were watching the ice skaters right before she choked on the hamburger.
The red 58 fury herself took on many of roland lebay's traits.
I have read the novel and watched the movie. I found that I couldn't put the book down. I have literally became engrossed in the book and before I knew it was 3 AM.
Same here! Reading it now.
My favorite Stephen King books are in this order..
1.) IT
2.) Pet Sematary
3.) Needful Things
4.) The entire Dark Tower series (all 8 novels)
5.) Salem's Lot
6.) Misery
7.) 11/22/63
8.) The Shining
9.) Doctor Sleep
10.) Insomnia
11.) The Stand
12.) Christine
"all 13" Dark Tower books? is that just exaggeration for comedy's sake? Or are there five secret books that only you know about?
@@megadev9099 Well, there's 8 novels but I included some other books/short stories tie-ins from King. There's also some comics King did that are directly related to The Gunslinger, The Little Sisters of Eluria, etc...but I haven't read those yet. I hope this makes sense to you.
@@darthtrip7188 Sure, I understand. I've read them all, I just wouldn't count the others like that.
@@megadev9099 I guess I really should edit it. To be honest, I was hesitant to count it as 13 instead of 8 back when I first commented this but it's true, there really is only 8 novels. I shouldn't count other tie-ins and such.
It's nice to see that someone else's copy looks even more dishevelled than mine. I got mine second hand and I love it's quite an old copy. It has so much more "character" than the newer editions. Hi from Germany!
I had a copy that literally became not only fully mummy wrapped-- but also had two or three of the pages individually taped back in!
I love the book. So much better than the movie. They’re nothing alike
Thank you for the awesome reviews. I discovered your videos on sheet accident. And I gotta say, I love all your SK stuff. Thanks for not being a snotty pretentious RUclips person, unlike so many others. Keep rockin, Decepticon!
First 2 mins of of your video is talking about page count because some people don't understand publishing and different book editions... don't stress out about those people. Or, at the very least, don't spend a lot of time (especially at the very beginning of your book) addressing those kind of complaints. Your review was top notch but I almost left because I didn't know how long the page-count explanation was gonna go on.
Anyway, I just finished reading this book and I agree with your review 100%. This is one of the best King books I've read so far. Some people prefer the large cast of characters (like in The Stand), but I prefer his books that focus on a handful of characters: The Shining, Pet Semetary, Cujo, etc. Christine is now a part of that list.
Thanks for your review, I'm now a subscriber. I enjoy seeing what other people thought about the books I read... completely backwards to how reviews are supposed to work, I know lol
Nice review man, I did read it back in my senior year of high school in October 2016, it was a fantastic book from King. Couldn't argue with that.
My top 3 Stephen King film adaptations are in this order..
1.) The Shawshank Redemption (Probably the greatest film of all time)
2.) The Green Mile
3.) Stand By Me
Great review. I didn't get the sense that Dennis was happy at the end of the book or had long to live before he gets hunted down and killed by Christine. Wonderful analysis relating it all to obsession. Christine is definitely one of my top 10 favorite Stephen King books.
Always love your reviews.
Thanks for sharing your thoughts! Adored this book, finally got around to it. Was a fan of the film before, and I love how deep the book goes into all of the main characters. Very different nature of Christine's source of power tho, still getting over that drastic difference. Longest book I've read and it didn't feel like it, brezzed by and couldn't put it down!
I love reading out I've read so many different kinds of genres so I'm just an avid book reader who loves a good book something about Christine is so good that every couple years I can read that book over again
IT is my favorite too. I’m about to start rereading it again after I finish the Tower. Can’t wait. Thank you for your videos. I know I wouldn’t have given a lot of these books a chance. Like the Tower or Insomnia or The Stand. So thank you very much.
1) IT
3) CHRISTINE
What's number 2?
Salem's Lot?
Dude, great review. I've seen the movie, but the book is in the mail and I'm getting ready to read it here soon. Exact same copy that you're holding in this video. This review has me pretty excited. I'm going to look and see if you have a Pet Sematary review now
Pleeeease review Desperation =) I've seen it requested as far back as 3yrs ago, and was curious if you have it scheduled in anytime soon..if you do, when? I really like listening to your reviews 💜💜💜 God bless
Top 3 is tough but if I had to choose
1:) Needful Things
2:) Salem’s Lot
3:) Misery
Hey! People can frick off man… I come for your reviews after I’ve read so I can immediately hear another reader’s thoughts and see if maybe I missed something…lol. I have this ritual that after every king book I read I seek your corresponding video.
So for what it’s worth, pack it all in and do those rundowns of the story because you are good at getting it out quick, coherent and simple. Thanks for being my internet reading “buddy”!
I've been looking forward to your next Stephen King review! Just like his books I breezed through all your vids. Good reviews!
Same for misery what an amazing book
I love this book
Awesome shirt!
Christine was my first Stephen King book. Loved it.
Excellent review. I recently finished Christine and it was excellent. Subscribed, Cheers!
I think you should watch the new pet semetery and do a review
Hey frostyknives what do you think about the book called Cycle of the werewolf by Stephen King???
Frosty what are your top 5-10 ranked if you can
How different is it from the movie?
Great Review Frosty, Do you think that King should return to the Christine story in the same way that he did with The Shining in Doctor Sleep? Would you like to see a 2nd Christine story set years and years after the 1st? Do you think a story like that could work? Keep being awesome.
Unless there's an interesting twist, I think Christine is q stand alone novel. To be honest, I never thought the Shining needed a sequel either.
Thanks for another great review Frosty I’ll have to dig my copy out again as well.
Hope to see you do a review on the new Pet Sematary movie soon.
Cripes, on your cover photo for this video, I thought it WAS Stephen King! :)
In the NYE drive chapter, they drive by several 1950s cars. The last one is a new Ford Edsel considered one of Ford's worst production blunders, but also innovative in its design.
I love your reviews. I just finished this book and I’d say it’s one of my favorites as well. I usually like the Loser’s Club podcast and was looking forward to their episode on Christine when I finished it but they completely shat on it, and basically hated it. It was really disappointing
Good review of one of my favorite books. However, in your review, you seemed to delve more into a review of the film as opposed to the book. In the book, it wasn’t actually the car that comes alive, but rather the ghost of Roland Lebay that inhabits the car and eventually possesses Arnie. This was a huge difference between book and film, and some of the scariest scenes in the book were those of Rolands rotting corpse inhabiting and driving the car.
Hey frosty, have you heard they're making a new stand tv series?
I think I have heard that and it would be on CBS All Access. Should be interesting.
Can you do a ferinhiet451 review
Also keep up the good work man
Nice shirt!
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What you could have done was start your video camera and had us sit here and watch as you read the ENTIRE BOOK....then you would have looked up and said, "Pretty Good", ending with a two word review and a video that was 26 hours long. Just a tip...well, kind of.
I thought that Dennis's and Arnie's relationship was more complicated than you did.
Yes, there was some pity involved on Dennis's part--maybe even some subconscious disgust at Arnie's "loser"-ness. I'm thinking of a specific scene where Arnie burst into tears in Dennis's car, and though Dennis held him, he was made so uncomfortable by this that in that moment he "didn't want to be his friend." Maybe partly due to toxic masculinity and partly because he didn't want to be associated with Arnie's inability to "keep it all together." But when Dennis got home his younger sister playfully roasted Arnie behind his back and Dennis wanted to kill her, because he could still feel Arnie's tears on his shirt and he was feeling protective.
Perhaps another reason why you thought that the friendship was mainly based on Dennis's pity might have been due to Dennis dating Arnie's girlfriend. But I didn't think that denoted Dennis feeling any less affection for his friend, so much as it denoted Dennis's selfishness, immaturity, possibly his attachment to his own social status (which he could further cement by dating a pretty girl like Leigh) and basically his failure to apply "love" as a verb to his relationship with Arnie even though I think he legitimately felt it to some degree.
Also, at the end, I don't remember perceiving that Dennis felt relief at all when Arnie was killed. I only remember his grief.
It’s a lot to do with demon possession as well as well as a obsession and the long triangle
Knives your the man...you should really do spoiler reviews
Exactly I like the spoilers. I like his take on the books. That is what makes his reviews unique and interesting.
Knives is the man
when I was in high school I read the stand in 2 days
The years before the novel is based before the film adaptation by John carpenter in 1983.
great review.
Would love you to do a Game of Thrones book review like you do the King books!!
steve smper no
Yaaaaaaaassssss!!!!!!!!!!🤓🤓🤓
Heh. "Mileage".
400 pages of buildup? No thanks. I'd probably fall asleep haha.
Fall asleep in the world of King, huh? Drop us a line from the Deadlights!
Inexorable...look up the pronounciation.
Whaaaat?! If anything you give too little away in your reviews! F@ck it! just do summary videos so people won't complain. I would watch that all day loooong.