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Summary: Carrie by: Stephen King
Review: The book Carrie, by Stephen King was a great, suspenseful , sci-fi thriller that kept me on the edge of my seat the entire time. I have an extremely busy schedule and don't usually have much time to read, but every time I picked this book up, I had a hard time setting it down. Once I started reading, I was anxious to find out what was going to happen next.The main thing that I enjoy about King's work is his descriptions. He always gives you superb descriptions so that you can have a great visual image of the characters and the settings. To anyone who enjoys sci-fi thrillers, I would highly recommend this book to you.
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Summary: Review from Nicholas S. Stember, author of "Twilight"
Review: This was the first book I ever read of Stephen King's and I was drawn in, hook, line and sinker (and a few other cliche's that come to mind). Perhaps it was that I was in high school at the time, and so are the main characters. Perhaps it was that I love the '58 Plymouth Fury, which was the focus of the novel. Perhaps it was that I love a blend of ghost stories and psychological thrillers, and Christine fit both. But I think it was all of these, and the magnificent style that Stephen King had; the way he pulled at your mind and made you feel with the characters. The premise is not too hard to accept for any die hard horror fan: a car with a seemingly evil soul. But what draws you in is Arnie Cunningham. He is the quintessential nerd you either were, or knew in high school. You get to see this pathetec, yet lovable character taken from his own innocence by the evil of the car, and you get to see this through the eyes of his best friend. By the end you feel like you were Arnie's best friend too, right to the very end... I have enjoyed many of Stephen King's novels since that day I picked this one up, but never have I enjoyed any of them more than this. Many have come close...but none were better.
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Summary: King has never been scarier!
Review: Carrie is King's first novel not written under his Bachman pseudonym. And thank the good Lord that his wife fished this one out of the trash!
It's a thoroughly enjoyable, genuinely spooky story about a characteristically 'normal' town in (where else?) Maine where a certain put-upon little girl is slowly building up something terrible inside her.
A testament to how frightening Carrie is that despite the fact that the ending is telegraphed (you pretty much know who bites the dust before they do), it's still pretty damn frightening.
And what scares me more than that telekinesis stuff is Carrie's 'mama'. She's a religious nut who's probably not unlike a lot of evangelical Christians. She's a damn scary character and you could be living right next door to a 'Margaret White'. Beware, beware the sexually repressed born-again Christian!
All in all, Carrie is worth a read. If you can get the special two-in-one edition with 'Tommyknockers', even better! Read 'em both through and see if you get any sleep!
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Summary: If you identified with the title character, I have bad news
Review: I'm one of the people -- and I suspect there are many -- who was drawn to CARRIE because I was always branded as an outcast and tormented by my peers. Since some publicity pictures of Mr. King show him wearing strong glasses, and since my own thick glasses were what got me into the let's-pick-on-this-guy category, I assumed that King had suffered a similar fate and that CARRIE had been inspired by empathy for the outcast character. I was dismayed to discover that I'd assumed wrong. In his nonfiction book ON WRITING, King tells us that one of the reason he almost abandoned CARRIE was that he didn't like the title character. He also tells us that he occasionally joined in the harassment of some of his outcast classmates. Still, it's to King's credit that he could create a sympathetic point of view for a character that he actually viewed with contempt. But there was one major problem I had with the book even before I found out where King was and wasn't coming from with respect to the title character. I felt he should have given us one major plot complication, rather than trying to balance two. The core of the story is Carrie's telekinetic power and how it enables her to punish her tormentor at the prom. But there's this insane religious fanatic mother she has to deal with, who I think muddies the waters a bit. I would have preferred that King write two books, one about the telekinetic girl and one about the girl with the insane religious fanatic mother. Still, both of these are admittedly subjective complaints. The fact remains that King is a good story teller and can write speculative fiction in which the characters don't get overshadowed by the speculation. In this case, I also felt the snippets of court transcripts and other official documents were an effective touch. (In fact, I wish the movie had retained the idea of a government investigation into the incident.) The book deserves its popularity. I wonder, though, if this was one time when telling the whole truth was a bad idea.
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Summary: one man's trash is quite the treasure
Review: I once read that a discouraged Stephen King put the manuscript of Carrie in the trash, and his wife took it out and made him submit it to a publisher. Thus Carrie was born .... Carrie is the kid in every high schol in every year who is bullied, tormented and teased because she is "weird" or just because kids seem to need a target and there she is! Although 16 years old, Carrie knows next to nothing about sex and her body ---- her overly religious mother has seen to that -- so when she suddenly starts menstruating in the locker room at school she is terrified because she has no idea what it is. However, Carrie starts to discover her powers of telekineses around the same time that some kids ---- admonished by the guidance counselor --- decide to be nice to her. One girl skips the prom, offering her popular boyfriend to be Carrie's escort, as no one will make fun of her if she is with him. But that's not good enough for some these mean-spirited kids, who plan out a nasty practical joke that is unfunny in every sense of the word, and indeed proves fatal. It is Carrie's one and only high school dance and it proves to be a humdinger. She is pushed beyond her patience and gets back at everyone in a horrific disaster that sets the tone of all of Stephen King's following works. In a way, it's what every high school kid -- popular or not --- secretly wishes they could do, but would be horrified if it ever actually happened.
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Summary: the emotional rollercoaster
Review: The story of Carrie White, written by Stephen King, portrays the quintessetial outcast in a suburban high school setting. Constantly being the butt of everyone's jokes, Carrie finally unleasher her telekinetic powers in a horrific night of revenge. This novel gives an insight into the mind of the typical high school reject, allowing all to truly understand that the ridicule they are put through is unbearable, leaving them no one to turn to and unlimited power of destruction over everyone else's life and her own. A scene at the outset of the book exemplifies this excruciating torture that she is put through when Carrie, the main character, is horribly made fun of when she is experiencing her first period. As the novel closes, Carrie can no longer take the constant bombardments of everyone in her life, even her mother, and she ultimately explodes on the city as a whole, unleashing her telekinetic powers in a fit or rage brought on by a deceptive night of false popularity.
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Summary: Carrie
Review: The character of Stephen King's novel, Carrie, portrays the average high cshool outsider's dream of revenge by using telekenesis to reek havoc on her tormentors. Carrie was made fun of her whole life until she finally ended it all. On Prom night, she enjoys her acceptence until the final joke is played on her and she destroys the town befre she herself dies. Carrie's childhood telekenetic powers come back to her in the opening shower scene due to the traumatic experience. Her powers then climax in the fnal traumatic moment that was Prom night.
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Summary: For Mr. Knott
Review: Carrie White is an outcast, ridiculed by her peers in school and tormented at home by her religious zealot of a mother. Carrie's is an existence of mental anguish and depression. Unbeknownst to all Carrie possesses a power and ability none could ever imagine. Carrie's latent telekenetic ability eventually reveals itself when her fragile teenage psyche is pushed to its limit, and a small Maine town is summarily destroyed in a vengeful rage.
King's Carrie is a character that all can associate with, we see ourselves and our most embarassing moments in Carrie's most embarassing moments. This emotional attachment everyone shares with Carrie makes the apocalyptic climax that much more powerful, as we can almost understand Carrie in that moment.
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Summary: Carrie
Review: The character of Stephen King's novel, Carrie, portrays the average high school outsider's dream of revenge by using telekenesis to reek havoc on her tormentors. Carrie was made fun of her whole life, until one night that ended it all. On Prom night, Carrie enjoys her acceptance until the final joke is played on her and she destroys the community before she herself dies. Carrie's childhood telekenetic powers come back to her in the opening scene due to the tramatic experience. Her powers then climax in the final traumatic moment that was Prom night.
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Summary: Carrie
Review: In Stephen King's Carrie, Carrie White is a girl who is different, fromt he rest of the kids in her town. All she wanted was to fit in. It was hard for Carrie to fit in with her peers because of her TK powers. Carrie came frome a very extremem household. Her mother was a religous freak even to the point she felt she had to kill Carrie because of her powers. King demonstrates in Carrie what can happen when a person is pushed too far, murder and mayhem.
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