Carrie

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Summary: Great ending and a great book all together.
Review: This was the first book I have ever read by Mr. King. I was a little dissapointed. I started reading it expecting blood and gore and horrible unimagineable things. But then I put myself in some of the characters positon and found myself totaly horrified.

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Summary: Intriquing character study -with horror thrown in.
Review: Carrie is wish-fullfillment at its best-take a lonely, withdrawn girl, tormented and ridiculed by her classmates, unable to form relationships, toss in a psychotic mother- whose psychosis manifests itself in religious mania, a long-gone father, and what do get - a recipe for Crazy Salad if ever there was one. In all seriousness, King shows the misery of somene who is cast-off from society in a really big way, and utterly unable to connect with anyone. Carrie finally responds with understandable rage, and her way to get back at all and sundry involves some of the best horror scenes ever, especially in the movie version, with Carries mother ending up crucified. Thats one solution, but people without the ability to blink their tormentors to a fiery end, would be better off saving their pennies, leaving thier dysfuntional families, and yahoo neighbors and moving out of town. Its better than getting caught in Dantes Inferno, and I mean this for Carries sake, not the creeps she knows.

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Summary: Carrie is Scary from the first page till the last page!
Review: This was my fist Steven King book and I wanted to read this before I see the Brian DePalma movie. I was so hooked! I couldn't even put it down! Carrie White's Mom was what gave me the creeps, the end wasn't scary. I just recommend this to all Steven King's fans! This was soooo well written by King every detail and description of what happen to Chamberlain,Maine. What a bone-chiller!

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Summary: A purely horrifiying book!!!
Review: Wow! This is the first King book I read and it is purely horrifying! A teenage girl seeks revenge on a small town with her strange powers. Using her mind, she wrecks havoc on the quiet town. Setting a school stage on fire during a play is bad, but try having the town set on fire! Pretty quite now, huh? King takes you into the world of a teenage girl that has problems at home and school. Her mother is a religious freak and the school crowns her homecoming queen. What's so bad about that? You get a crown, lots of people cheer, you get a gallon of pig blood dumped on you...

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Summary: Good, but not really scary
Review: I read Carrie and I thought it was good. The way King wrote about the way Carrie was treated and how it all came back on people really made me think about how people treat others. The terrible things that Carrie does to everyone proves that whatever you do (good or bad) will come back on you 3x3x3.

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Summary: not scarey
Review: i read all the reviews before i read the book and tought it was going to be scarey. i was really wrong . it was a pretty good story and had good action but it was written with a bad style and had no horror.

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Summary: The movie was better!
Review: I finished this book in just over 2 hours. The characters were undeveloped and the plot mediocre. It was my first Stephen King book, but I gave him another chance on The Shining. This book literally nearly bored me to sleep.......

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Summary: One of King's most terrifying
Review: Carrie is by far one of Stephen King's most thought out work. It was the first King I ever read and since then I've prabably read twenty of his. A great one to start with....

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Summary: Carrie was intetnse and very satisfying...
Review: I read Carrie this past week for a book review in English, and I liked it so much that I had to go out and rent the movie. For one of Stephen King's first horror books, it was deeply intense, and satisfying all well serving a good point, the fact that people who are tormented by their peers will become repressed people. It was fun to read, and hopefully instead of scaring people will send a message to them, treat others the way that you would want to be treated.

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Summary: Good,but not as good as some of his others.
Review: Having already seen the movie version of "Carrie", I expected to be bored while reading the book.Not so,and although the book isn`t technically "scary" it still evokes a feeling of sadness for some of the characters,as they are shown to be ordinary people.The book is fast-moving and you always want to read just that bit more. However,I have a few complaints.Firstly,the book is relatively short and it appears as though it was written specifically to be adapted into a movie.I enjoyed "Carrie" and thus will give it 4 stars,although it`s not as strong as "Salem`s Lot" or "The Stand".