Firestarter
1980 • 576 pages
Ratings104
Average rating3.6
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Ratings104
Average rating3.6
Firestarter is a science fiction-horror thriller novel by Stephen King, first published in September 1980. In July and August 1980, two excerpts from the novel were published in Omni. In 1981, Firestarter was nominated as Best Novel for the British Fantasy Award, Locus Poll Award, and Balrog Award.
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Also contained in:
[Ominbus](https://openlibrary.org/works/OL25080326W)
Reviews with the most likes.
If it wasn't for unbelievably disappointing climax it would be 5 stars. King once again shows how brilliantly he can portray child characters. Among the best I've read from him (so far).
Not one of King's best but the last third really hits the spot with the father daughter story bringing a lot heart to the story,
Boy, this took a while.
I'm not a slow reader, but this book is, sadly, not very interesting. It took 100 pages before anything remotely interesting happened, and after that there were pages and pages and pages of boring bureaucracy with only very few instances of action.
Compared to other King books, this wasn't particularly well-written and had too much filler.
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