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Summary: Hard To Read For Many Reasons
Review: This book is one endless, feverish, terrifying nightmare. The fact that there are no chapters makes it seem even worse.
It starts out incredibly gory with a detailed description of Carrie White's first menstrual period, which occured later in her teenage years in front of all her female gym classmates.
There are no comfortable moments in this book---it's all pure awfulness... Except for a brief section right at the start of prom night when Carrie talks to another girl about her dress. The author seems to be good at giving us a character that could actually escape from the terror around her and then crushing every hope of that happening. Many paragraphs from books about the horror of Carrie White's prom night are stuck in the middle of everything, telling us something very bad is going to happen at the end---which is probably the only reason, really, to keep reading. You want to find out what happens. Unfortunately, though, the foreshadowing excerpts pop up everywhere and get very, very dull.
The book centres around the life of misunderstood teenager Carrie, who is the victim of her violent, dominating mother who is obsessed with the Bible in all sorts of bizarre, horrible ways... And the mother is probably the most disturbing character I've ever read about. Ever.
This book is hard to read, partly because it is so much a never-ending nightmare and partly because it gives you a weird kind of hope for Carrie even if you know things won't work out. Carrie develops telekenetic powers and then most of the characters die... Which is no huge surprise, because we're told from the start of the death on prom night.
Poor Carrie. The book is also hard to read because, although it is fiction, you think that if only Carrie's mother wasn't so evil and controlling, she could have had a normal life. Plus the gore is disgusting.
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Summary: Awesome and Chilling! A classic in horror!
Review: Wow! I read this at the beginning of 7th grade and have loved it since. I remember I was extremely bored and so I thought, a horror story sounds good right now. I thought it wasn't going to be scary. Boy, was I wrong! It confused at a FEW parts. I watched the movie afterwards and I was surprised at how alike they were. That story prolly haunted me for a month! I kept seeing Sissy Spacek's (Carrie) eyes wide open (which was scary looking...if you've seen the movie you know what i mean). I definately recommend this book!
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Summary: Where's the Scarey? Boring!
Review: I expected to get some chills, but this book never took off with any action. The blood/fire pieces played more like foot notes then anything chilling. The newspaper snips, and excerpts from the "books" detracted from the flow of the story. I was bored and couldn't wait for the book to end. This is the rare case where the movie was better than the book.
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Summary: Marry me, Carrie!
Review: If no one wants you, Carrie, I do! Marry me!
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Summary: Telekinetic Revenge
Review: After reading The Green Mile, another novel by Stephen King, I decided to see if Carrie stood up to the same level of greatness. Regarded as "Gory and horrifying...you can't put it down," by the Chicago Tribune, Carrie entertains readers with an eerie story of a young girl growing up in Chamberlain, Maine as the focal point of others' ridicule and cruel jokes. Margaret White, Carrie's mother and also a religious zealot, plays a large role in why her daughter is always teased. Carrie possesses a special telekinetic power and often times expresses her bottled-up frustration by utilizing her power. One day at school, Carrie is asked by a popular boy to accompany him to the prom. Thinking the many years of taunting are approaching an end, she agrees to his request. Once at the prom, Carrie realizes she was wrong about the teasing, but this time her classmates take things a little too far and drive her over the edge. The future of Chamberlain now lies in the hands of Carrie White.
Carrie is a swift read, full of colloquial dialogue, horror, and various literary devices that make the story very interesting. I really enjoyed reading Carrie and plan to continue with more Stephen King novels. I recommend this book to all those in search of a good book, excluding young students because of the many sexual references that are found throughout the story. Overall I rate it four stars out of five because the setting often changes from past to present, causing some confusion.
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Summary: Carrie
Review: Great Book. Carrie is made fun of constantly in school, but does nothing about it. She takes the abuse and tries to keep her cool. However as the book progresses, Carrie anger and hurt begins to boil. She has a strong hatred for everyone in her life and is learning how to use her newly found telekinetic powers. Everyone is in for a big surprise!
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Summary: King's Classic
Review: This is King's classic novel and the one he is best known for. If you haven't read this and you consider yourself a fan of horror/thriller novels, then you are missing out. I loved the development of Carrie and her struggle to fit in. I feel that King is using this novel to comment on today's teens and how so many of them think they have to fit into a certain crowd to be liked or "cool." This novel is a classic and worth your time. Trust me.
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Summary: Carrie A Book Review By Shannon.
Review: I loved this book Carrie. I loved it because it had a great plot, and a lot of gore. This book was also good too because King took a lot of time and thought into writing this book. Also what what I like about his writing is that he uses a lot of description in his books too. The characters in Carrie were so descriptive, it was like you almost knew them. I would definitely recommend this book to people who like a good plot, alot of gore, and good characters.
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Summary: Misses 5 stars for style, not for substance.
Review: I would really like to see King rewrite this book. Just to go back over and smooth down some of those rough spots, turn this book from a good horror novel with a few weaknesses into a first-rate horror/thriller.Much of this book is good. The characters are believable, if a little static. The setting manages to help the story along without become too much a part of the action. King's explanation for Carrie's abilities, along with the behaviour of her mother, foreshadows the end long before it comes, but that's all right. Horror isn't about the shock, really, it's about the moments that lead up to it. The only problem is, in a lot of places where you'd expect the story to speed up, it slows down. This'd be all right if it slowed up for a purpose, but it's usually just for a bit of someone's jounral of a scrap of a newspaper article. Later on, King would learn more about how to mix together mundane sub-plots with the horrific plot to make the horror build all the better, but here it feels more forced, more artifical somehow. Still, for being the first book that every made me jump with surprise in a public place, four stars.
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Summary: Super suspenceful!
Review: CARRIE is an absolute classic. It was the secound book by King that I ever read and I thoroughly enjoyed it. I passed my information on to my good friends, who devoured it in a few days, and went on and on about it when they finished it. Carrie White is a seemingly innocent schoolgirl who is constantly tormented by her cruel peers and her strange mother. Carrie holds a power inside her that comes purely from anger and hate. Her mother, Margaret White, has a very strange view of Christianity...forcing Carrie to go into a small closet and pray for forgiveness after events as innocent and simple as her first period. Carrie finally gets a break when Tommy Ross asks her to go to the Prom. Little does she know that her hateful classmates are planning a surprise for her.
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