Christine Lmited Edition

Kevin Quigley has posted a great article celebrating the Limited Edition of Christine.  He rightly assesses that Christine is not exactly a favorite among King fans.  Quoting Michael R. Collings, it's a "minor" novel.  However, Quigley makes the argument that Christine is actually "underrated."

So what's to love in Christine?  Actually, I do love this book!  It's great.  It is simply not KIng's absolute best.  It's hard to get an A- when you're an A+ student.  I found the book engaging, very scary, and insightful about teen love.  It's a young peoples novel about high school, ullies and even a touch of rock.

Quigley shares this interesting bit of news:

Now, then, seems the perfect time to celebrate the quietly enduring legacy of one of Stephen King’s most underrated novels. Enter PS Publishing, a premier British small press specializing in fine editions of genre work. PS first came on the King scene with the 2007 limited hardcover release of The Colorado Kid, initially released as a mass-market original through Hard Case Crime. The aesthetics of that book impressed fans: PS commissioned work from three different genre artists to create three unique hardcover versions of King’s slim novel, with new covers and new interior art, and all the whistles and bells of a fine limited edition.   

Quigley gives his usual detailed analysis of the new book, and most exciting to me, announcs that the book includes two new essays.  "Richard Chizmar, of Cemetery Dance Publications, provides a short, moving essay about his personal experiences with the novel, recalling his recent afterword in the Cemetery Dance anthology Turn Down the Lights. Michael Marshall Smith (We Are Here, Spares) contributes a lengthy, insightful foreword, bringing to the fore the novel’s major themes of growing up and growing apart."

The full article is at fearnet.com