- Paperback: 256 pages
- Publisher: New English Library; New edition edition (1 May 1975)
- Language English
- ISBN-10: 0450025179
- ISBN-13: 978-0450025174
- Product Dimensions: 17.2 x 11 x 1.8 cm
- Average Customer Review: 4.4 out of 5 stars See all reviews (67 customer reviews)
- Amazon Bestsellers Rank: 100,861 in Books (See Top 100 in Books)
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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
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‘Not since Dickens has a writer had so many readers by the throat...King’s imagination is vast. He knows how to engage the deepest sympathies of his readers... one of the great storytellers of our time' (Guardian )
'One of the few horror writers who can truly make the flesh creep' (Sunday Express )
'King is one of the most fertile storytellers of the modern novel' (The Sunday Times )
'One of the few horror writers who can truly make the flesh creep' (Sunday Express )
'King is one of the most fertile storytellers of the modern novel' (The Sunday Times )
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10 of 10 people found the following review helpful:
5.0 out of 5 stars
This is where it all began,
By Daniel Jolley "darkgenius" (Shelby, North Carolina USA) - See all my reviews (HALL OF FAME REVIEWER) (TOP 100 REVIEWER) (REAL NAME)
This review is from: Carrie (Paperback)
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. This is very important to would-be writers--clearly, King was still learning his craft when he wrote this novel, and thus the process of reading it provides any potential writer with a great learning experience. The format here is significantly different from King's more mature work. The story is told through several "voices," including a third-person account from a "survivor," extracts from research articles and newspaper items based on the events, as well as a more traditional author's voice. Thus, we get several perspectives on the characters and events. The story is not as fluid as it might be because we switch from one viewpoint to another as the tale unfolds. While I much prefer the style of King's later works, especially in terms of getting inside a character, King still infuses Carrie's world with realism and believability, proving that he can create masterful atmosphere and mood with any number of literary tools.
6 of 6 people found the following review helpful:
5.0 out of 5 stars
Mr King, thankyou very much,
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This review is from: Carrie (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.
2 of 2 people found the following review helpful:
3.0 out of 5 stars
Carrie, ever heard of a tampon? Jeez.,
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This review is from: Carrie (Paperback)
It was... Um, pretty good? I liked the way that news stories were scattered though it to spice it up a bit, make it feel more realistic. Otherwise it was just a pretty average horror read. Although King makes you feel a lot of sympathy towards the main character, so that was rather clever of him :(
I actually watched the movie for this at like 1:00am in the morning after Christmas day, and decided to get the book to see if it was any better. (i did enjoy the movie, for the record. I thought it was pretty freaky) And it wasn't really that much better. The film was very true to the book, and they are both about average. 3 stars for a good read, although not really anything special :)
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