![]() ![]() No ifs or buts: he's taken in, wanting to be cool, and he falls in love. So, we accept that he is somewhat nerdy we accept that his one friend, Dennis, is one of the most hollow characters King has ever written, seemingly existing only to tell Arnie to be careful (and given that he's the narrator of the book, that's some going) and we accept that Arnie would see a battered, ruined 1958 Plymouth Fury on his way home from school and just buy it. ![]() He's an aching stereotype, but that's not always a bad thing – as King had shown before – particularly when the stereotype breaks their mould and becomes the hero. Christine was the truth poking out from the lie of Rita Hayworth and The Body.Ĭhristine is the story of Arnold "Arnie" Cunningham (a name taken from two Happy Days characters), a shortsighted bookish type (a "loser") who has only one friend and not much of a life. Different Seasons was published between Cujo and Christine, but it was written much earlier, back when King was perhaps more in control of what he was actually doing. ![]() Still, the books came, mainly because he had them squirrelled away. They were well-hidden – and I'll talk more about that come Tommyknockers time – but they were there. He had his vices at this point, of course. He wasn't universally loved, but he was universally sold, and that was probably enough for him. ![]() The easiest period of Stephen King's writing to talk about is his early years. ![]()
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