Author: Stephen King Genre: Horror Original publication date: April 29, 1983 Book description: It’s love at first sight for high school student Arnie Cunningham when he and his best friend Dennis Guilder spot the dilapidated 1958 red-and-white Plymouth Fury for sale—dubbed “Christine” by its original cantankerous owner—rusting away on a front lawn of their suburban Pennsylvania neighborhood. Dennis knows that Arnie’s never had much luck in the looks or popularity department, or really taken an interest in owning a car . . . but Christine quickly changes all that. Arnie suddenly has the newfound confidence to stick up for himself, going as far as dating the most beautiful girl at Libertyville High—transfer student Leigh Cabot—even as a mysteriously restored Christine systematically and terrifyingly consumes every aspect of Arnie’s life. Dennis and Leigh soon realize that they must uncover the awful truth behind a car with a horrifying and murderous history. Hell hath no fury lik...

Author: Stephen King Genre: Horror Publication date: April 1974 Book description:  The story of misunderstood high school girl Carrie White, her extraordinary telekinetic powers, and her violent rampage of revenge. Thoughts: So to start off my dive into Stephen King's books, this is the first published book by him. Before this, he had only written short stories and he was only using his writing to get extra cash for his family. This is the first time I read Carrie, interesting tip bit of information most readers encountered this story in their teenage life mainly due to the storyline Carrie is a highschooler. I will say that it is very difficult at this time to know nothing about Carrie even if you are not a reader. I have not seen the movie in an extremely long time. Maybe I saw portions of the original or first version of the movie. But I have an idea of the overall plot and some of the more iconic scenes in the story. With that said this is the first impression, I have ...