Arnie expires in a (potentially) unrelated vehicle crash.įor this type of straightforward narrative, it’s a small structural mess. The car drives itself into a snare set by Leigh and Dennis, and is crushed. Dennis develops something for Leigh – incorporating a smidgen of character to the story – and then, over the next god-knows-how-many pages, matters come to a mind, and we find, shock of shocks, that somehow the car is owned by LeBay or some thing, and that perhaps it is now trying to own Arnie, and oh my god ARNOLD rearranged is ROLAND and forth. Arnie is a moron, and becomes increasingly such as LeBay, even to the point at which he starts wearing a back brace. He is suddenly (and inexplicably) appealing to a new girl in the town, Leigh (another of King’s ancient easy stereotypes: such as Susan in Salem’s Lot, she is a Very Nice Girl). Arnie buys the car anyhow, takes it to a garage and learns how to flip it into the vehicle of his dreams: fixing the engine, the paintwork. Dennis does not like the notion of merely purchasing a car outright (“To my ever increasing horror, Arnie pulled his wallet out … “). It’s sold to Arnie by a crotchety back-brace-wearing old man named Roland LeBay, that loves that car, but it’s time to sell it on. No ifs or buts: he is taken in, needing to be cool, and he falls in love. Stephen King – Christine Audiobook. So, we accept he’s somewhat introverted we take his one friend, Dennis, is one of the very hollow characters King has ever written, seemingly present only to inform Arnie to be cautious (and given that he is the narrator of the audio book, that is some going) and we all accept that Arnie would observe a battered, ruined 1958 Plymouth Fury on his way home from college and just buy it. He’s an aching stereotype, but that is not always a bad thing - as King had shown before - particularly when the stereotype breaks their mold and becomes the hero. A shortsighted audio bookish type who has just 1 friend and not much of a life. Christine was the truth poking out in the lie of Rita Hayworth and Your Body.Ĭhristine is the story of Arnold “Arnie” Cunningham (a title taken from two Happy Days personalities). Stephen King – Christine Audiobook.
Different Seasons was printed between Cujo and Christine, but it was composed much earlier, back when King was perhaps more accountable for what he was actually doing. Nonetheless, the sound books came, largely because he had them squirrelled away. They were well-hidden - and I will speak more about that include Tommyknockers time – they were there. He was not universally loved, but he had been universally offered, and that was probably sufficient for him. The simplest period of Stephen King’s writing to chat about is his ancient years.
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