Carrie White is no ordinary girl. Carrie White has the gift of telekinesis. To be invited to the Prom by Tommy Ross is a dream come true, and a step towards social acceptance by her high school peers. But events take a macabre turn on that horrifying and endless night.
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Why read Carrie? Stephen King himself has said that he finds his early work "raw," and Brian De Palma's movie was so successful that we feel like we have read the novel even if we never have. The simple answer is that this is a very scary story, one that works as well--if not better--on the page as on the screen. Carrie White, menaced by bullies at school and her religious nut of a mother at home, gradually discovers that she has telekinetic powers, powers that will eventually be turned on her tormentors. King has a way of getting under the skin of his readers by creating an utterly believable world that throbs with menace before finally exploding. He builds the tension in this early work by piecing together extracts from newspaper reports, journals, and scientific papers, as well as more traditional first- and third-person narrative in order to reveal what lurks beneath the surface of Chamberlain, Maine.
News item from the Westover (ME) weekly Enterprise, August 19, 1966: "Rain of Stones Reported: It was reliably reported by several persons that a rain of stones fell from a clear blue sky on Carlin Street in the town of Chamberlain on August 17th."Although the supernatural pyrotechnics are handled with King's customary aplomb, it is the carefully drawn portrait of the little horrors of small towns, high schools, and adolescent sexuality that give this novel its power, and assures its place in the King canon. --Simon Leake --This text refers to an out of print or unavailable edition of this title.
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13 of 13 people found the following review helpful
By David Bolton
Format:Paperback
Well considering that King thought this book wasnt worth publishing it has done surprisingly well, wouldnt you agree?
King has a knack of relating fiction to real-life and this is no exception. Teen bullying, a girls first entry into womanhood, it is all real and for most of us, scary. King in turn makes his stories scary to reflect this by using real problems.
Carrie is a teenager with 'normal' difficulties at school. She however does have an underlying power, a well hidden dark side that is waiting to burst out. And burst out it does in one hell of a blast, and a hell of a climax.
The characters are easy to relate to and you willl be forgiven if you think they are actually based on real people, such is Kings talent. This book is, for the most part, an 'easy' read. The plot is clear and simple to follow. However just because the plot is simple doesnt mean it is any less engrossing. And get engrossed into Carrie's world you will.
A super read that is quite linear with fewer twists and turns than in Kings larger books, but exciting none the less.
He is truly the epitome of modern horror.
King has a knack of relating fiction to real-life and this is no exception. Teen bullying, a girls first entry into womanhood, it is all real and for most of us, scary. King in turn makes his stories scary to reflect this by using real problems.
Carrie is a teenager with 'normal' difficulties at school. She however does have an underlying power, a well hidden dark side that is waiting to burst out. And burst out it does in one hell of a blast, and a hell of a climax.
The characters are easy to relate to and you willl be forgiven if you think they are actually based on real people, such is Kings talent. This book is, for the most part, an 'easy' read. The plot is clear and simple to follow. However just because the plot is simple doesnt mean it is any less engrossing. And get engrossed into Carrie's world you will.
A super read that is quite linear with fewer twists and turns than in Kings larger books, but exciting none the less.
He is truly the epitome of modern horror.
13 of 14 people found the following review helpful
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As with virtually everything Stephen King has written, this is enjoyable reading. It is also a quick-read for anyone who is intimidated by the length of some of the author's later works. I think the basic premise of this story appeals to many people because Carrie is, in many ways, the ultimate underdog, a girl terrorized by an insanely religious mother, victimized and persecuted by her peers, and alienated from the world around her. Everyone in life has been a victim or a bully, and I think the story of Carrie White does impart an important lesson to the folks out there who are treating someone they know the way that Carrie's classmates treated her. For those of us more sympathetic to Carrie's plight--the high school "outcasts," the "poor," the unpopular, the nerds, etc.--the story really matters here. Many of us daydream about the revenge we will exact from those kids who made fun of us all those years ago, and Carrie White shows us that revenge is not all it is cracked up to be. Carrie's "triumph" costs many innocent people their lives, and it doesn't really do a whole lot of good for Carrie herself.
You don't need me to tell you why you should read or re-read this book. This is Stephen King. By this point in time, unless you are just coming of age, you have already read this book if you are one of King's legions of fans or even if you were ever curious about this man's phenomenal success. Even more of you have probably seen the movie. While the movie was pretty faithful to the book, not even the magic of cinema can convey the true weight and atmosphere of this (or any other) book. Carrie is also King's first published novel.
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By Scott Weston
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I thought that Carrie is a book that is worth somebody taking the time to read. Its the first Stephen King book i've read so I don't know how it compares with his others but I thought this one was great. He does a great job of making you feel the destruction near the end of the book, and also makes you (well makes me anyway) want to save Carrie all the way through. Well worth reading
2 of 2 people found the following review helpful
By A Customer
Format:Paperback
This book was the first Stephen King book that i read! I really enjoyed it, the only thing that i didn't really like about it was the fact that it is not scarey at all! If you want to read a 'horror' book, but aren't sure that you will enjoy it or that you will be too scared, i recommend reading this book because its very kind to the readers that are sensative to horror. This book does have its moments where you think 'YUK' but other than the odd few, theres not much. Don't get me wrong, this is a good read and would really recommend it to a horror virgin!
2 of 2 people found the following review helpful
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Format:Paperback
When I first read Carrie, I was blown away by the storyline and the style of writing, but the important thing was that we felt sympathy towards the protagonist,Carrie, so we weren't sure weather to condemn her actions at the end or root for her.
This is strange because King recently admitted that he never liked her, and felt that she was asking for the abuse she got. He based Carrie White on two people that he taught in his high school.
When I recently re-read the novel, it does not hit the same impact that it originally did and one factor constantly annoyed me: why did Chris go so far to humiliate her? Did she have a psycological problem or something.
But that was just an excuse for the action, so I'll let it go. If you want a good introduction to the Master of Terror, than you can't go wrong.
By the way, after you read this, compare it to the Brian De Palma/Sissy Spacek film and draw your conclusions on how faithfully it was adapted. The notorious ''shock-ending'' is not in the book.
2 of 2 people found the following review helpful
By A Customer
Format:Paperback
This was the first SK book I ever read. I spent months listening to everyone raving about the movie. I was too young to go see it and there were no videos in those olden days of 20 something years ago. I decided that I would settle for the book and boy am I glad I did. I read it on holiday, in a lonely country cottage in the Highlands of Scotland - best place in the world to read HORROR. This made me fall in love with SK. It was the most incredible experience ever, as far as books go. It left such an impression on me that I kept thinking about the characters years later, hell I even called my daughter Carrie! If you are wondering which SK book to read and want real excitement and thrills, then you won't go far wrong with this masterpiece. It is horror at it's very best. If it is your first SK book it certainly won't be your last.
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Carrie is one of those books that makes you think about it for days...
I have known the story of Carrie for years, snippets of conversation here and there and last month I ended up listening to two people talk about the book yet again and thought I... Read more
Published 5 days ago by lunaslittlelibrary
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book was enjoyable but not as interesting and gripping as i thought it would be recommended though for young adults
Published 10 days ago by shauna ellen mcmanus
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Teen angst at its best
I'm probably one of the few people in the world who has never seen the 1976 film version of 'Carrie'. But I'm not naive enough that I'm not aware of the story. Read more
Published 15 days ago by ReadingisDreaming
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great book
this is one of the first books I ever bought, unfortunately I lost that, I have always ranted and raved about this book, at first the format is confusing but after that it's a... Read more
Published 1 month ago by Paul A. Johnson
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Carrie
As awesome and creepy as the first time I read it year's ago!
It's one of my all time favourites!
It's one of my all time favourites!
Published 1 month ago by BooksGalore
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I was hooked from go
This is the first Stephen king book I have read and it had me gripped from the start!
I downloaded the free extract and as soon as I had finished I had to download the full... Read more
I downloaded the free extract and as soon as I had finished I had to download the full... Read more
Published 1 month ago by K Hardwick
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This was Stephen King's first novel and although it didn't quite flow as easily as some of his later work it is still an excellent read that I found hard to put down, as all his... Read more
Published 1 month ago by Anni
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Carrie
Another one of Stephen Kings amazing stories that keeps a great pace going from start to finish. May have been one of his older ones but shows why so many of the books he has... Read more
Published 2 months ago by Richard Ash
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The classic
Not quite as terrifying as I always assumed it would be instead it has given my a lingering sense of the creeps that has stayed well after a I completed the last page. Read more
Published 2 months ago by Megan
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Brilliant
My first ever AM and I loved it. Incredible style and story! I will be downloading more like this for sure!
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