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  • Written by: Stephen King
  • Narrated by: Holter Graham
  • Length: 19 hrs and 35 mins
  • 4.7 out of 5 stars (140 ratings)

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Christine

Written by: Stephen King
Narrated by: Holter Graham
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Publisher's Summary

Stephen King's ultimate evil vehicle of terror, Christine: the frightening story of a nerdy teenager who falls in love with his vintage Plymouth Fury. It was love at first sight, but this car is no lady.

Evil is alive in Libertyville. It inhabits a custom-painted red and white 1958 Plymouth Fury named Christine and young Arnold Cunningham, who buys it. Along with Arnold's girlfriend, Leigh Cabot, Dennis Guilder attempts to find out the real truth behind Christine and finds more than he bargained for: From murder to suicide, there's a peculiar feeling that surrounds Christine - she gets revenge on anyone standing in her path. Can Dennis save Arnold from the wrath of Christine?

This number-one national best seller is "Vintage Stephen King...breathtaking...awesome. Carries such momentum the listener must force himself to slow down" (The New York Times Book Review).

©1983 Stephen King (P)2010 Penguin Audio

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Love The Story, Not Crazy About The Narration

I've loved Stephen King's "Christine" for years. I loved the book, liked the movie as it followed the book fairly closely, so I thought I would buy the audio book.
I'm only part way through the story and I find that the narration is weak, to say the least. It's unfortunate as I really wanted to like this audio book, but I find that the narrative fails to bring across the darkness of the tale; the narrator simply does not bring the story to life, in my opinion.

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What a book!!! What a story!!!

I, unlike most I am sure, actually watched the movie adaptation a while ago before getting the audio book... And I am actually crazy glad I did!

In the movie adaptation of 1983, just taking a minute to forget the differences between movies and books (as always), the actors were quite well picked and I actually enjoyed the movie story.

Now, circling back to the audio book, I personally think Holter Graham could not have narrated the book better! The voice impressions, tones of voices and dialogues Holter performed in the audio was so so close and reminiscent of the movie it gave me goosebumps. A massive shoutout to Holter in this respect. Every time Holter did Arnie, or Dennis or Lebay, I could actually see the characters in the movie in my minds eye and this was 19 hours of pure enjoyment.

With Holter at the wheel you then get to enjoy the entire book and it had filled out the movie and the book so well in my head, I cannot even believe it.

I know this is more of a Holter shoutout that it is a King book review, but damn it worked well. Awesome hours spent for days listening to it.

My recommendation... watch the '83 movie adaptation, get the overall character experiences in your minds eye, their voices and mannerisms, then listen to this audiobook to get the full story.

I commomend this 5/5. LOVED IT!

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top story

The story is typical Stephen King. Captures you by the throat, hits you in the gut, occasionally elicits tears. The reading is beautifully done. The only thing that spoils the audio is some technical problem that causes static crackling that has nothing whatsoever to do with the story.

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great story

the story is fantastic but as with previous comments i noticed that the audio would cut of mid word it was kind of annoying but didnt take from what was going on in the story

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WOW

I have no other way of describing how good this book is. Just WOW.

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My favorite narrator so far!

Stephen King is an amazing storyteller. If you haven't heard this one yet, do it now. The narrarator is great! He did an excellent job.

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amazing narrator! best ive heard so far!

The story was as good as ever as to be expected but the narrator put me at the edge of my seat at every sentence!

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favorite book hands down

this was my 3rd time listening to it abs it will never gets old

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Great performance for a weird book

Holter Graham does an excellent job performing Arnold Cunningham's transformation. I recommend this audio over the book because the performance really elevates this story which is relatively goofy in concept.

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A King Classic

This is by no means the best novel in the Stephen King catalogue, but 'Christine' incorporates the best aspects of his writing: a Paranormal/Fantastical scenario somehow made plausible, relatable flawed characters, guy-at-the-end-of-the-bar dialogue, and unsurpassed viscerally-affecting description. This book about a teenager's obsession with a haunted murderous malevolent '58 Plymouth Fury (yes, you read that right) is "can't-look-away" engrossing.
The book is definitely imperfect (the lead up to the action is a little too slow, for example), but the writing is captivating. Stephen King flexes his literary muscles in this effort.

The performance of this audiobook is similarly hit & miss: Holter Graham reads the book with marvellous emotiveness and exemplary timbre/cadence/tone.. but his voice-acting is variable (Arnie Cunningham's cracking adolescent voice gets annoying, for instance) and his reading is best consumed at 1.10X (his rate is a little slow). Overall, however, Graham was an excellent choice of reader from Simon & Schuster Audio.

This 9 out of 10 star horror classic belongs in your library. Spend the Credit.

[*N.B: I was a little concerned by the reader comments on spotty sound quality, and there are, indeed, a couple of spots where the sound rattles and shorts out but I didn't find they interfered terribly with the overall performance. They did drop my overall rating, however. Be aware but don't be afraid]

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