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will love Sign up for LibraryThing to find out whether you'll like this book.  hmshankman | Nov 9, 2009 |  First of all, when I began to read this book I already knew the gist of what was going to happen so this may have lead me to not enjoy it as much. It's always difficult comparing and reviewing an older book because you aren't as aware of its contemporaries or whether or not its ideas are original. As such, at the time of my reading the plot seems pretty standard: outcast girl who is picked on gets revenge on her tormentors. Overall, it was the writing style that stood out to me, not the story. (  ) JoshMock | Nov 9, 2009 | A good first novel. Interesting way to present a story. (  ) Anagarika | Nov 3, 2009 | A King classic. Compared to his later books its not that great, very straight forward. However it gets pretty deep into Carries psyche and the adversity she endures in high school, i think a lot of people could probably relate to her. I also liked how the book was presented with articles telling part of the story and such. ( ) Blazingice0608 | Oct 27, 2009 | Enjoyed this book, perhaps in part because there was an attempt at a scientific explanation for the paranormal activities taking place. (I have a hard time suspending my disbelief for traditional horror, but I think this helped.) I liked the way the story was told--through interviews, excerpts from books and newspapers, letters (the "works within the work")--in addition to the narration. There is a definite attention to detail in the telling of the story, and all of the characters were believable; some of whom I could even empathize with. ( ) jamietr | Sep 22, 2009 |  no reviews | add a review
Amazon.com (ISBN 0671039725, Mass Market Paperback)Why read Carrie? Stephen King himself has said that he finds his early work "raw," and Brian De Palma's movie was so successful that we feel like we have read the novel even if we never have. The simple answer is that this is a very scary story, one that works as well--if not better--on the page as on the screen. Carrie White, menaced by bullies at school and her religious nut of a mother at home, gradually discovers that she has telekinetic powers, powers that will eventually be turned on her tormentors. King has a way of getting under the skin of his readers by creating an utterly believable world that throbs with menace before finally exploding. He builds the tension in this early work by piecing together extracts from newspaper reports, journals, and scientific papers, as well as more traditional first- and third-person narrative in order to reveal what lurks beneath the surface of Chamberlain, Maine.
News item from the Westover (ME) weekly Enterprise, August 19, 1966: "Rain of Stones Reported: It was reliably reported by several persons that a rain of stones fell from a clear blue sky on Carlin Street in the town of Chamberlain on August 17th." Although the supernatural pyrotechnics are handled with King's customary aplomb, it is the carefully drawn portrait of the little horrors of small towns, high schools, and adolescent sexuality that give this novel its power, and assures its place in the King canon. --Simon Leake (retrieved from Amazon Fri, 24 Apr 2009 07:58:08 -0400) The first test round has been closed. Visit the Open Shelves Classification group for details. |
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This book is a paradigm of modern-day horror-fiction how-to. He creates a pitiful, completely believable outcast of a girl, adds normal, name-brand American life, and then blows the story into another dimension when he casually drops in the supernatural, slowly building it into the stuff that haunts your nightmares.
If you've never read Stephen King, read this one. Still fantastic, after all these years. (