![]() ![]() Hers is pyrokinesis, and was triggered by some shady drug experiments committed on her parents by an even-more-shady governmental organisation known as The Shop. Or, at least, I did the first time that I read it.Ĭharlie McGee is a little girl in the grand, early-King tradition of "kids with special powers". ![]() It's one of the books that stepped into public consciousness – it had a film made with Drew Barrymore in, for goodness' sake – and people rattle it off as a classic. And why wouldn't they? It's early King, when (collective wisdom has it) he was still writing exciting, original novels, playing in the ballparks of horror-SF that his diehard early readers love. A few weeks ago, in the thread for The Long Walk reread, commenters began listing their top 10 favourite King books. ![]() The problem with something as subjective as literature is that your average reader is, sooner or later, going to disagree with majority opinion and I knew that when it happened during this reread, I would have to write about it honestly. ![]()
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