Not one of my favourites..

**ItFan** · May 21st, 2010

Ok, I've just finished Firestarter, and since it took me the best part of 2 months to read it I have to say it wasn't my favourite SK ever.

I found myself constantly looking for other things to read, and when I did pick it up I was only reading 10 pages and then putting it down again (which for me is a big deal!).

I found that it was all very exciting at the start while Andy and Charlie were on the run, but once they got caught I felt it all kind of slowed down a bit, and never really picked up again.

I really enjoyed the character of Rainbird, and felt like he was such a rounded character, who we as the Constant Reader, really got to know and like on a personal level.

Just wondering if it was just me being picky, or if other people found the same thing?

Kirsty

**sam peebles** · May 21st, 2010

I disagree. I read the book for the first time a couple of months ago, and I devoured it. Took less than a week. Not one of his best, not a Stand or an It, but definitely enjoyable and a great book. Loved it even when they were captured.

**GNTLGNT** · May 21st, 2010

You're not being picky-just honest. I enjoyed it, and have always gotten a kick out of "The Shop"...course I don't want them to know that-Oh God, now I've done it...maybe if I wrap my head in tin-foil, they'll never know I thunk it...

**Jojo87** · May 21st, 2010

I enjoyed Firestarter. In the beginnig it was a littlebit boring. But later on it start to getting better.

**Doc Wilson** · May 21st, 2010

I loved it when it came out, but I recently gave up on a re-read of it. Kinda rare for me, only a handful of SK novels didn't hold up to a re-read.

**wally wonder** · May 24th, 2010

i've read it a couple two three times...enjoyed the first reads more so than the latest...seemed to me that it was a bit contrived there, after they were caught. apparently i didn't think that the first time through. that was my only complaint.

**Roland de Gilead** · July 30th, 2010

Estoy de acuerdo con algunos de ustedes, fue mi segundo libro y me resulto muy atrapante al principo y un poco lento cuando los capturaron pero de todas manera me gusto mucho!!

**deepc185** · December 17th, 2010

I have to disagree with you. I've read this book probably 4-5 times since it first came out. Each time I've enjoyed it just as much as the first time I read it.
I think the thing that hooked me, and always does with this novel, is that you have a young girl, who possesses a power she never asked for, and is being hounded by the people who essentially gave it to her. She had no choice in the matter, and, I think, would give it up in a second, to live a normal life with her father. There is something about that story that just breaks my heart.