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I hadn't read this book in more than twenty-five years, but I've seen the movie countless times since, so I had to pick up the novel and read it again after all these years. I had forgotten that King's Carrie was NOT Sissy Spacek, and his Margaret White was by no means a Piper Laurie. He took me in for another ride as I read the pages, I was able to put different faces and bodies and the White women. I was able to visualize a different Tommy Ross, Sue Snell, and Chris Hargenson (sp?) (e.g. Chris has dark hair in the book vs. Nancy Allen's blonde locks in the film, etc.).

There's a back-and-forth with the books and studies about telekinesis and the prom-night horror. This was written in the days before the internet and cable TV pundits, who would have beaten the dead horse of an incident like this for all its worth and then some--if it were to happen in 2016. Oh, and cyberbullying! Can you imagine how the kids at school would have made Carrie's life hell on Facebook?

A must-read and the ultimate revenge tale for anyone who's ever been picked last in gym class, given a wedgie, been the butt of a cruel and horrifying group joke, or just tormented period (ugh, no pun intended). It is quite heartbreaking every time when Carrie's world gets better for a couple of hours and then she has the rug yanked from under her once again. You want there to be a way out for her -- just like you want the coyote to kill and eat the damned roadrunner at least once -- but you know it's never going to happen.


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Carrie Stephen King 9781416524304 Books Reviews

The book that got Stephen King started, Carrie is a fantastic and compelling story. We can all identify in some degree about fitting in (or not fitting in to society, as this book concentrates on) and i think King does a great job of not only exploring these aspects of human nature, but also exploring the fantastic. I had heard a story once that King in frustration early on in his life had thrown this book away and his wife had fished it out of the trash and sent it in. I don't know if that is true or not, but I'm sure glad that it made it to publication! As with all Stephen King books, this has something for everyone - suspense, thriller, fiction, science fiction, and most definitely horror, King is truly indeed the King of horror.
Even living in the small town of Chamberlain, Maine in 1979 doesn't stop 16 year old going on 17 Carrie White from suffering the equivalent of cyberbullying. Even though she's in high school, kids write offensive graffiti at their elementary and middle schools insulting and making fun of her. She is picked on by everyone not just at her school but by just random kids she passes on the street. She can't escape the endless persecution and it's been going on ever since she was a small child. A lot of it has to do with her nutjob fundamentalist Christian mom who believes that Carrie's very existence is a sin. She has never allowed her to play with other kids and is abusive, assaulting her and frequently locking her in a closet without access to food, water, or a bathroom.

As the book begins, Carrie is so clueless that when she has her first period in the girls shower room at school and begins to bleed she panics and doesn't even know what is happening to her. She thinks she is dying! The other girls laugh at her, insult her, and throw tampons at her! Only one of the girls, Sue Snell, begins to doubt what she is doing and questions her own morality. She, along with her boyfriend, Tommy, resolve to help bring Carrie into the social network of the school. To do something nice for her for probably the first time in Carrie's life.

This might all sound like an afterschool special drama, but there is a mysterious x factor. Carrie has a telekinetic ability to move objects with her mind. She also seems to have some telepathic powers. As the book, progresses, her powers manifest stronger and stronger. She also does a fair bit of practice to see exactly what she can do. Meanwhile the leader of the bullies at her school, Christine Hargensen, is preparing an awful prom night surprise for Carrie.

I had been meaning to read all of Stephen King's books for some time and now seemed a good time to start. And I wanted to read them in order of publication. I will be skipping books I have already read like Salem's Lot and The Shining. Next up after this is Rage.

I was quite surprised by the lack of gore and violence in this book. All of that is really concentrated in the end Prom Night sequence. There's really not a lot going on in the book except for that. It's a character study more than anything else. Even in the Prom Night scenes, King is restrained, I guess stemming from the fact that he wasn't really confident in what kind of writer he wanted to be and hadn't really found his voice.

The book was good, if a little slow. What's funny is that reading it, I started thinking what if Carrie White had existed in the Marvel or DC universe? With her telekinesis, she could have become a superhero! Maybe if her mom hadn't been such a loon, Carrie could have read some X-Men comics back in the 1960s or 70s and gotten a better vision of what her power was. Or if she had some read some good scifi!

Another thing I thought about was that back in 1974 when this book was published, the parts where Carrie unleashes her powers on her classmates was probably a lot more shocking than it is now in 2019. Mass school shootings seem to occur almost monthly in the US now so we've almost become USED to horrible school violence.

Who would have predicted from this first book that Stephen King would have become one of the bestselling authors of my lifetime? There's really nothing in this first book that makes him stand out from the crowd. It's really a generic mainstream title if you get down to it. The characterization is really strong, which to me is a foreshadowing of something he would become a master at.
This isn’t my first time with a King novel, but knowing this was his first mass published novel and that this would have been the first work of his many people read makes me jealous.

Reading it now in 2019 obviously there are some issues with the language used but the overall story is just so good. Something King does well is mix supernatural with the evil of people, and this is heavy on the evil of people. Carrie could have been a totally normal kid if her mother hadn’t been abusive, that caused her to be weird and other kids to pick on her. The otherness of Carrie, the unimaginable cruelty of teen girls, the spiteful and horrifying actions of a boy, so many things come together to make a monster out of everyone. It never really hits horror for me, a little more YA thriller, but I really enjoyed it.
Stephen King's first novel it appeared in 1974. King was a struggling teacher when his wife Tabitha pulled this gem out of the rubbish bin and sent it in to publishers. The book became a famous Brian De Palma film. Since 1974 this novel is one of King's best known and classic works.
The plot concerns Carrie White. Her mother is a crazy religious kook who torments Carrie and hates women and sex. Carrie begins to menstruate in a high school girls locker rom where she is taunted by her cruel classmates. Revenge is dealt in spades when Carrie brings down the house during her Senior Prom killing her tormenters and prom attenders. The story does have resonance with the revenge meted out by the blinded and enraged Samson a judge of Israel who is imprisoned by the enemies of Israel.
The King novel is never forgotten once read. A harbinger of all the great King novels which were to come from the prolific pen of an American genius.
I hadn't read this book in more than twenty-five years, but I've seen the movie countless times since, so I had to pick up the novel and read it again after all these years. I had forgotten that King's Carrie was NOT Sissy Spacek, and his Margaret White was by no means a Piper Laurie. He took me in for another ride as I read the pages, I was able to put different faces and bodies and the White women. I was able to visualize a different Tommy Ross, Sue Snell, and Chris Hargenson (sp?) (e.g. Chris has dark hair in the book vs. Nancy Allen's blonde locks in the film, etc.).

There's a back-and-forth with the books and studies about telekinesis and the prom-night horror. This was written in the days before the internet and cable TV pundits, who would have beaten the dead horse of an incident like this for all its worth and then some--if it were to happen in 2016. Oh, and cyberbullying! Can you imagine how the kids at school would have made Carrie's life hell on Facebook?

A must-read and the ultimate revenge tale for anyone who's ever been picked last in gym class, given a wedgie, been the butt of a cruel and horrifying group joke, or just tormented period (ugh, no pun intended). It is quite heartbreaking every time when Carrie's world gets better for a couple of hours and then she has the rug yanked from under her once again. You want there to be a way out for her -- just like you want the coyote to kill and eat the damned roadrunner at least once -- but you know it's never going to happen.