Carrie

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Summary: carrie book review
Review: it was very good enjoyable and i liked it. Stephen king used his imagination a lot.

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Summary: A fun read, originally told by a young King
Review: The story of Carrie White, although not told conventionally, is a fast and fun read, if not one of King's best.

Carrie White is the student you probably remember from one of your schooling experiences: the plump outcast who never achieved any semblance of popularity and remained something of an outcast from the clique-based social hierarchy. I remember a girl like Carrie White well, albeit in elementary school not High School. King developes Carrie well, a character to be sympathized with but not pitied, a somewhat lowly character but not a pathetic one. Character development is also important in the characterization of Carrie's mother, who cannot be made too evil or over-the-top while still being oppressive, and King strays close to the line without going over.

But then again, people rarely talk about the characterization in a King novel, so I suppose I must devote time to the sci-fi element: Carrie White is a telekenetic, capable of moving objects with her mind. Like Ramona Quimby in Roald Dahl's children's book "Ramona", Carrie begins to train herself and develop her powers, until she is capable of essentially everything, something she proves in the tour-de-force latter third of the novel.

As mentioned, Carrie is not told conventially. King abandons the traditional novel format and instead tells the story as if it really happened, citing invented scientific studies, autobiographies, eye-witnesses, police reports and interveiws. This either adds to or detracts from the novel, depending on your opinion. I'm on the fence; while on one hand this is certainly fresh, on the other it seems perhaps King did not have enough material to fill a traditonal novel and resorted to this format instead. Similarily, I am tempted to give the book 5 stars, but the negative part of me is going to prevail, if only because the specific event that leads to Carrie's unleashing of her power seems poorly thought out for such a significant event. 7.5/10

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Summary: Carrie
Review: I thought Carrie was a pretty good book.It was a bit slow in the beginning, but the climax was good.This book would have been better, if there was more action in the beginning. The descriptions were just perfect though.The bit of extra information on telekenisis was helpful in understanding the plot.I recommend this book to a person who just can't resist a good horror novel.Simply a masterpiece!