Oh, and also, because the plot needs it, her dad, Andy, is a bit psychic (another side-effect of the experiments). 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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