Carrie

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Summary: Really Good
Review: I saw the movie first but I have to say, the book is even better. I liked all the details in it and it was really easy to read. I read the earlier version and in it there were articles that had supposedly been published in local books and newspapers of the town that it happened in. I love this book and would read it again.

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Summary: Outstanding Debut
Review: CARRIE is certainly not as good as King's later efforts, this is a fantastic debut. Carrie White is ridiculed by everyone, including her deranged mother. Then at the prom, all hell brakes loose. You won't be able to put it down! Excellently written.

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Summary: Excellently told...
Review: King's debut is also one of his best, scaring the guts out of people. I had the time of my life reading it, wasn't even able to put it down. If you haven't read King before this is an excellent book to start with!

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Summary: Carrie
Review: Stephen King has way of bringing a fictional book to life. He loves to scare a person. With Carrie the way he brings real live experienced into this book is wonderful. After you read this book you can see how this can happen in real life. The way Carrie learns to use her telekenetic powers are wonderful. She has a very religious fanatic for a mother how still believes in myths. Carrie is tormented and teased to the breaking point by her more popular schoolmates. They do find out how aperson can get back at them for the years that Carrie was tormented by this. I really did enjoy this book. It is not a scarey as some of his other books but just as good.

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Summary: Short Sweet and to the point
Review: This book explores what most of us would have done if we had a special, explosive powers when we were in high school. King explores what all of us wish at some point we could have done to those who choose to taunt and bother us. This book is superbly written and keeps your interest to the quickly coming end. This is a great book to read for those who seem to have the misconception that most of what King writes is blood and gore. (which would include most people)

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Summary: An Easy, Fast, and Fun Read!
Review: I read this book in about a day and a half. It's a lot shorter than most King books. However it's very good, and is ALOT better than Insomnia. It's freacky and thought provokng. This was is not that scary so you can read it at night.

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Summary: Well, it was okay...
Review: When I read this, for some reason, didn't find it very scary. Maybe it was because I didn't read it before bed. But I read Night Shift, and some of the stories in there scared me, like Jerusalem's Lot (really freaky) and I am the Doorway (which was just plain weird).

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Summary: i wish I were telekinetic
Review: this was a great book, not only did it have a lot of action, but it was filled with information about telekinetics. I only wish that Carrie hadn't died in the end

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Summary: I believe that this is one of King's best novels.
Review: Stones fall from the sky. The neighbors watch in horror as they devastate the house. They don't touch any other part of the street except for the white house, and the neighbors can hear the wails inside. Stephen King always catches my attention with the first lines of his book. Carrie is no exception. I believe it is one of the best books King has written. The reason I think this book is one of King's best is that his books are usually full of horror. This one is also, but this book also talks about real life experiences. That is why I think this book is good. The book starts by talking about Carrie's adolescence, which mostly consisted of her being made fun of. That happens a lot in high schools in today's age. A lot of people are singled out, stereotyped, and made fun of. That has been the root cause of a lot of tragedies in today's time. He also points out the way high school affects people mentally. High school is one of the building blocks of how kids act socially. If all people do is get made fun of, they tend to be bitter and mean. So I think he brought out some good relative topics, and that's why I think this book is the best. I do not like Carrie's mother at all. She is an eccentric, overbearing, religious psycho. All over the house, she has religious pictures or paintings of evil times that happened in the Bible. She preaches to be faithful to God yet she mistreats her daughter. She was so stubborn in her beliefs that she did not tell her daughter about her period because she thought this was sacrilegious. Carrie had her first period in the gym, and everyone made fun of her. Her mother didn't tell her; therefore she was made fun of by the rest of her class. Her mother does nothing but malign her daughter and then make her pray in a closet. This confinement did a lot of psychological damage on Carrie and was one of the reasons she was always made fun of. In the beginning of the book, King wrote that as a young girl Carrie was very pretty. But since her mother always manipulates her she makes Carrie feel terrible. I think that the mother is the cause of all Carrie's problems. That is why she is the character I dislike the most. I sympathize a lot with Carrie in this book. She has to deal with a lot all of her life. When she was in, school she had to deal with all the kids that made fun of her. Then when she got home she had to deal with her mother. Her mother is one of the biggest causes of her grief and she makes Carrie do her bidding. When she finally gets to the point where she rebels against her mother and gets some freedom, the kids at school make a joke out of her. Her whole life Carrie has been made fun of and put down. All Carrie wanted to do wanted to do was fit in and be part of the crowd. But because of her mother and her past, she has a hard time trying to do that. I think that the other kids could have accepted her or just left her alone. They had to play tricks on her and make fun of her. That just made the anger grow inside, and I understand how the rage unleashed on everybody. I sympathize with her life and understand why she did what she did. After going through all that she did, she is someone to feel sorry for the most. I believe that Carrie is one of King's best novels. He has excellent and realistic characters. In my opinion, a good book is one that people can relate life to. King is an excellent author, and this book I would definitely recommend for all the new King fans.

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Summary: A Thriller!
Review: I thought this book was incredible! Once I started reading it I could not stop! The only part that I did not like about this book was all the 'interviews' and stuff. Also I didn't like how he wrote the same scene over from everyone's different point of view. Some might like that, but all I was thinking is how much of the same scene can u re-make, I wanted to find out what actually happens in the end! But over all it was an exccelent book!