Christine (Mestres do Horror e da Fantasia #14) -

Stephen King

Francisco Alves, (RJ)

1983

548 páginas

18h 16m

ISBN-10: 0670220264

Português Brasileiro

"Christine" by Stephen King: Corpo de Plymouth. Alma de Satã! '-' Body by Plymouth. Soul by Satan. Hell hath no Fury...like a 1958 Plymouth. She was born bad. Plain and simple. Somewhere deep on a darkened assembly line. Christine. A '58 Plymouth Fury possessed by Hell. She's taken control of her teenage owner, Arnie. Her previous owner is not alive to warn him. And now she's steering straight for the one person in her way. Arnie's girlfriend, Leigh. The other woman...

'In 1957, in Detroit, a red Plymouth Fury is built and is the cause of two accidents, one of them fatal, still in the assembly line. Twenty-one years later, the outcast and bullied nerd Arnold "Arnie" Cunningham is getting a ride with his best and only friend Dennis Guilder and he sees the wrecked car in a junkyard. Arnie immediately falls in love with the car and calls it Christine. He brings the car to a repair shop of the despicable Will Darnell and works hard to restore the classic car. While he works in the restoration, he changes his personality to a cocky teenager and he dates the most beautiful girl in the high-school, Leigh Cabot. Soon Arnie becomes selfish and jealous of the supernatural Christine that kills everyone that is a threat to them'. [IMDb Plot Summary written by Mitchell McCreath].
====
http://wm1.com.br/cultura-auto/meu-plymouth-fury-1958-foi-usado-no-filme-christine
====
"Christine" by Stephen King (first published January 1st 1983) '-' Just Another Lovers’ Triangle, Right? It was love at first sight. From the moment seventeen-year-old Arnie Cunningham saw Christine, he knew he would do anything to possess her. Arnie’s best friend, Dennis, distrusts her—immediately. Arnie’s teen-queen girlfriend, Leigh, fears her the moment she senses her power. Arnie’s parents, teachers, and enemies soon learn what happens when you cross her. Because Christine is no lady. She is Stephen King’s ultimate, blackly evil vehicle of terror '…'

|...| 'Evil is alive in Libertyville. It inhabits a custom-painted red and white 1958 Plymouth Fury and the teenage boy, Arnold Cunningham, who buys it from the strange Roland LeBay. Helped by Arnold's girlfriend Leigh Cabot, Dennis Guilder embarks to find out the real truth behind Christine and finds more than he bargained for: from murder, to suicide, and a strange feeling that surrounds Christine -- she gets even with anyone that crosses her! Can Dennis save Arnold from the evil that is Christine? '.'

Resenhas (618)

3 (Bom)

Até agora eu não consegui entender muito bem como alguém consegue escrever uma história sobre um carro possuída e torná-la aterrorizante. Mas, essa foi a grande jogada de Stephen King... ele não explica, apenas faz.

Dennis, o personagem que relata os acontecimentos, é um rapaz não muito brilhante e isso fica óbvio com o passar do tempo. Ele é uma pessoa que sem seus dotes atléticos, terminaria fazendo algum tipo de trabalho simples, sem grandes perspectivas e justamente por isso, é tão fácil acreditar no que ele conta.

A história de Arnie, Leigh e Christine, vista sob seus olhos, tem um certo ar fantástico, típico de quem ainda está saindo da adolescência e acredita nas histórias de lobisomem que aquele tio bêbado jura que é verdade. E é através dessa mentalidade que vemos Christine, um Plymouth Fury, massacrar várias pessoas no decorrer dos capítulos.

Aos leitores contumazes, não há nenhuma indicação ao universo de A Torre Negra, embora o tema de máquina assassina seja revisitado em outros contos, assim como um carro agindo como uma espécie de portão dimensional.

Recomendo.