Official Score = 3 Devils[/caption]When I was in my last year of High School I got sent to a boarding School in New Mexico... and well lets be honest, it's New Mexico... Don't get me wrong, there is nothing particularly wrong with the state... But when you go from the fast paced world of being a kid in Los Angeles California, to being stuck at a ranch out in the middle of nowhere in New Mexico, there just honestly is not much to do!
Well when I was there, I worked hard to keep myself occupied... I had some friends, I listened to a lot of heavy metal while looking at the stars at night, (Something that you really couldn't do in LA, due to the fact that there really isn't any stars that are visible at night anymore.)
One of the things that I started doing was reading... And trust me when I say that I read, 'ALOT'... If I had to guess, I probably read close to 30 novels in the 3 months that I was there.
Now to some, that may sound dull, but I actually really enjoyed it, there is one novel in particular that I found that I really got hooked on during the last few days that I was at the boarding school, and that was Stephen King's, 'Christine'!
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A truly awesome novel![/caption]This novel (which would later be turned in to a movie ), told the story of how a nerd by the name of, 'Arnie Cunningham' wanted a status symbol to call his own and got it in the old clunker, 'Plymouth Fury' that he would fix up... And end up getting more then just the car!
You see, after the car is fixed up, a mysterious series of deaths begin to plauge Arnie and the small town upon which he is from... And as the body count begins to rise, Arnie will discover that not only does Arnie love his new car, but his new car loves him back!
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A scene from the 1983 movie, 'Christine' featuring: Arnie Cunningham (Keith Gordon) inside, 'Christine'...[/caption]In the end, what I liked most about this story is how all this nerd really wanted to do was step out from the shadow of his best friend, 'Dennis', and be recognized for being more then just some one to be picked on, and for girls to laugh at... But in so doing, ends up heading down the path toward destruction!
This novel is worth it, and if you get a chance, I hope you find the same thing as well!
