Carrie

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Summary: READ THIS BOOK!!!
Review: I found this book chilling and haunting. Overall, and awesome book! I think everyone who reads it will like it, and even if you don't, it's not a book that would have taken up a whole lot of your time.

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Summary: Very Good!
Review: This is a very good book about a girl named Carrie White who is constantly teased by her peers and mistreated by her mother. Her mother makes her beg forgiveness from God in a small closet over very insignificant things like having a first period. But, when she is invited to go to the prom with the most popular guy in the school, things go horribly wrong. I would reccomend this book to anyone who liked "The Shining" or "It".

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Summary: One in a million
Review: Okay, I actually thought this wasn't scary. I found it a good read because I like reading about school rejects, and I like reading Stephen King. This is about a school reject with telekinisis and a super-religious mother. The ending is quite good though it didn't scare me a bit... now It... that was scary. Being that I'm a ten year old and that clown likes to eat children. By the way my name is Kelly.

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Summary: Carrie
Review: I once read that Stephen King actually threw out the manuscript of Carrie, and that his wife, Tabatha, retrieved from the trash and mailed it to a publisher, and the rest is history. Had she not done this, the world would be deprived of a great novel. 'Carrie' is different. The entire book is written from many peoples' perspectives, which gives the reader many points of view. Not only is this unique, but the reader gets an unbiased view of the story. Excellent suspense and unique writing make 'Carrie' a winner.

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Summary: High School. (In a nutshell)
Review: Carrie, by Stephen King, is an intense novel guaranteed to make the reader wonder about their current surroundings. A high school girl, Carrie White, who has been deprived of many luxuries, is the school's outcast. Her mother, the cause of most of her pain and misery, forces Carrie to be an outcast, not only in her school, but an outcast of society, by not exposing her daughter to "normal, everyday life" occurrences. Also, Carrie is not what one would call an "ordinary" child. She has been blessed with a sixth sense, telekinesis. The people of Chamberlain, Maine, all believe that Carrie is a devil worshiper and choose to have nothing to do with her or pick on her because she is "different." Who knew she would actually reprimand the people.
Among the many great qualities of this novel, is the introduction of reports taken and written during and after the destruction of the high school's junior/senior prom. These features add a nice twist to the book in that the reader can see both perspectives, Carrie's and the townspeople. King places them into the novel to add just enough information to keep the reader interested.
The format of the novel adds to the story too. King presents the story as a flashback of the nights events. Foreshadowing of the "incident" is evident in Carrie. The reader is not aware of what is coming up but knows there is some kind of drastic event about to happen.
This novel has no bad qualities to it. It is presented in a way that keeps the reader interested and involved while placing the reader in a horror story.
I recommend this book to anyone who remembers his or her high school years. Carrie is a unique horror novel that proves that anyone's high school experience could not have been worse than Carrie White's.

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Summary: Carrie By Stephen King
Review: ... Carrie by Stephen King

Stephen King with once again a terrific novel. Although it was published in 1974. It was the first time I had read it. Just like most of Kings books. This one is a Science fiction thriller that you can not put down because the vengeance and chilling acts of violence take place on a regular base. The main character is Carrie White. She has the ability to encounter Telekinetic Powers and becomes a mass murder. With Kings quick-moving dialogue the novel never leaves you spellbound and hungry for the next twist in the plot.
Once Carrie starts her horrifying rampage of revenge. As a reader it makes you feel complete sorrow for the receiver of the horrible harassment she dealt with from meritorious amounts of classmates. After reading the novel it should make you think twice about hurting others self-esteem and have a whole new perspective on what our world is like.
After being placed in a complete different state of mind. I have realized this horrifying terror story is satisfactory for any type of audience. With the exception of the reader that don't enjoy reading about death and Science Fiction. I would recommend this to anybody especially if you enjoy Stephen King. I don't believe there is enough word to describe what kind of chilling suspense that the book Carrie compacts. It changes your views and leaves you with a blank. Thinking to your self. What if that really happened?

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Summary: From the laundry room of a rented trailer home
Review: Some, King among them, say this first book is raw. While that may be true, put this novel against nearly every other non-King horror book, and understand how good it really is.

It is terrifying and original. At the same time, however, it forces everyone to look into their high-school personalities and ask "what would I have done?" Most like to think they would have opposed Carrie's abuse, but few can say that honestly.

It's no Stand or Shining, but it's quick and freaky.

(A quick clarification: Carrie is not based on two of King's students, but rather two of his fellow classmates growing up.)

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Summary: What a debut !
Review: Though lacking some of the style and poise of later King works, Carrie is nonetheless a chilling tale from The Master. Despite being an unlikeable personality, we feel sympathy towards the protagonist, Carrie, so at the end we aren't sure whether to condemn her actions or root for her. This is strange because King recently admitted that he never liked her, and felt that she deserved the abuse she got. Seemingly, he based Carrie White on two people that he taught before he took up writing full time.

As Stephen King's first published novel, released in 1974, no one could have predicted that Carrie would be the beginning of what would become the biggest publishing phenomenon in history. But it is surprising how well this tale of a young girl with telekinetic powers holds up after twenty-one years. Perhaps it is because the novel is still intense, still vivid, and still an apt commentary on modern life. Even after years of slasher films, mass murderers, and nuclear threat, Carrie still has bite. It is the classic Cinderella tale, with a twist. A twist so violent that the final one third of the novel burns with total wreckage, loss, and repercussions.

Carrie sets the stage for much of what Stephen King experimented with in later novels, but it is also a remarkably solid novel in its own right. Well written and chillingly realistic (even in the face of the supernatural), this novel will resonate for many more years to come

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Summary: Wished it could have been longer.
Review: Movie was much better, read the book first.

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Summary: "Write your own novel in 24 hours or less!"
Review: It seems that Stephen King was following some sort of Template when writing this book. Because this book is so bare, so naked, so "should've-been-longer" that I'm surprised that it got so famous.

I won't go into plot details because it's been gone over and over in all the other reviews. The book is divided in three parts. The shower room and it's consequences, before the prom and after the prom.

The book starts at a breakneck speed with the shower room scene and slows down to a screeching halt afterwards. The pace only picks up when Carrie and her mother are on scene.

King wrote this book in a very interesting manner. He put up fictional newspaper and book articles on the story. Without them the book would be even shorter.

IT seemed to me that King should've elaborated more on Carrie's past. The other pranks the kids put on her.

Without the prom scene (Which is described to perfection) this book would've been a two star book at best. It literally saves this book.