През целия си кратък живот 16-годишната Кери е търпяла само страдания. Майка й, религиозна фанатичка, й забранява всичко, което радва едно младо мо...
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Nov 16, 2007
Jessica
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I want to start a shelf of "books-that-traumatized-me-as-a-child-with-stories-of-girls-who-just-could-not-stop-gushing-blood-Down-There," but I can't think of any others besides this and Bell Jar. I know in Are You There God, It's Me Margaret they just couldn't stop TALKING about it, but I think that was different, more just perplexing and annoying than actually traumatic.
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Um, BTW, this book is AMAZING. I should give it more than three stars. Ther More...
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May 11, 2011
Leslie
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This is the perfect airport book--enthralling but familiar and not terribly deep.
In at least 4 instances in Carrie, an authority figure slaps someone in hysterics and behold! The nut-in-question reconnects with sanity! Every time it happens, it is presented as logical, sane and humanitarian. This is something I've only ever seen in old movies (example: just yesterday I watched as John Wayne slapped an unhinged child in Red River), but I imagine in real life you have to be pretty bold t More...
In at least 4 instances in Carrie, an authority figure slaps someone in hysterics and behold! The nut-in-question reconnects with sanity! Every time it happens, it is presented as logical, sane and humanitarian. This is something I've only ever seen in old movies (example: just yesterday I watched as John Wayne slapped an unhinged child in Red River), but I imagine in real life you have to be pretty bold t More...
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Feb 14, 2009
Jennifer
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I think part of what makes this book so amazing is that even though it is a horror book - it stems from something very basic and very real to so many people. The need to be loved. The need for acceptance. The need to be nurtured by a parent. Sadly - as is so often the case in real life as well - these things are held out of reach for Carrie. Her mother is crazy. The kids at school are HORRIBLE. She has no friends - no life. She is isolated and miserable. She is an outsider who can see that peopl
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Sep 09, 2007
Michelle
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This was definitely one of the better quick-read horror books I've read. I read this from start to finish in one day on the beach and was surprised to feel like there actually was decent character development and insight. After seeing the movie MANY times, I was half expecting to skim through the book with a "been there-done that" attitude, simply looking for instances where the movie deviated from the book. But King's unique style of incorporating news clippings, interviews, excerpts
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Jun 10, 2011
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Feb 20, 2009
Edi
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I read this book when I was 15 -- which, in my opinion, is the best age for it.
The plot is, in fact, quite simple. Carrie White is telekinetic. She gets pushed over the edge, so she fights back.
But what's somewhat interesting (it's actually amazing if you're a teenager) is how this whole situation is gradually built.
You'll find different types of characters in her life -- the religiously insane (her mother), the stereotype "mean girls", the football jock that has a br More...
The plot is, in fact, quite simple. Carrie White is telekinetic. She gets pushed over the edge, so she fights back.
But what's somewhat interesting (it's actually amazing if you're a teenager) is how this whole situation is gradually built.
You'll find different types of characters in her life -- the religiously insane (her mother), the stereotype "mean girls", the football jock that has a br More...
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Dec 08, 2008
Chelsea
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YES YES YES!!! Way to go Carrie!!! I'm not one of those psycotic people who will probably commit a gun crime someday, but I was bullied as a child and I like how the book shows the negative effects of making someone feel like they don't have the right to walk the earth. This is a wake-up call to america's youth. If you mess with fire, you get BURNED!!!
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Feb 09, 2009
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Sep 07, 2011
Lena
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I'm not sure why I haven't read this book before now. In high school I read tons of Stephen King, but for some reason I skipped over this one. Maybe because it was thin and I liked the big thousand-plus page books he wrote. I was finally inspired to read this book because I saw the movie, liked it, and wanted to see if the book was better.
For me, it was a good read. Some of the parts got a little tedius, but overall, it was a good book. A little immature in the King realm, but that's More...
For me, it was a good read. Some of the parts got a little tedius, but overall, it was a good book. A little immature in the King realm, but that's More...
Aug 07, 2011
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Aug 16, 2011
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Carrie
By Stephen King
253pp New York, NY
Bantam Doubleday Dell Publishing Group $7.99
ISBN: 0-671-03972-5
Do telekinetic powers really exist? What about telepathy? Well, it hasn’t been scientifically proven to exist, but in Carrie , it definitely does. Carrie is a high school girl with ESP, a religion- fanatic mother, and is often bullied by other girls in her school for being ugly and antisocial.
The story starts off with a humiliating incident in More...
By Stephen King
253pp New York, NY
Bantam Doubleday Dell Publishing Group $7.99
ISBN: 0-671-03972-5
Do telekinetic powers really exist? What about telepathy? Well, it hasn’t been scientifically proven to exist, but in Carrie , it definitely does. Carrie is a high school girl with ESP, a religion- fanatic mother, and is often bullied by other girls in her school for being ugly and antisocial.
The story starts off with a humiliating incident in More...
Dec 15, 2011
Craig
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This is the first fiction book of Stephen King's I have read, and I found myself surprised by a number of things. First, this was Stephen's first novel, and he took some really creative chances with both the narrative structure and the conventions of novel writing. He used various sources to tell the story of Carrie, which I thought was an end in and of itself, but Stephen used these rather as a means to his ultimate end--an effect too complex to explain here, you must simply read it for yours
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Apr 01, 2011
Joanna
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Carrie is about a 16 year old misfit named Carrietta White and the destruction she wreaks on her town with her telekinetic powers.
It is told in the present tense with a third person omniscient narrative as well as the past tense done through newspaper clippings, book excerpts and court proceeding transcripts. As you begin the story you know something horrible has happened but it isn't until the last of the book that you realize just how devastating the outcome really was. It's a tech More...
It is told in the present tense with a third person omniscient narrative as well as the past tense done through newspaper clippings, book excerpts and court proceeding transcripts. As you begin the story you know something horrible has happened but it isn't until the last of the book that you realize just how devastating the outcome really was. It's a tech More...
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Jan 28, 2008
Samantha
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Stephen King is one of the most popular authors of the latter half of the Twentieth Century, having most of his
works turned into either a feature film or a made-for-tv movie or miniseries. In my opinion, you would be hard-pressed to find someone in the modern world who does not know who Stephen King is.
When I was thirteen, It was turned into a miniseries and I loved it so much I purchased a copy of the book and jumped right in. Two hundred pages or so into it, I gave it up for los More...
works turned into either a feature film or a made-for-tv movie or miniseries. In my opinion, you would be hard-pressed to find someone in the modern world who does not know who Stephen King is.
When I was thirteen, It was turned into a miniseries and I loved it so much I purchased a copy of the book and jumped right in. Two hundred pages or so into it, I gave it up for los More...
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Jan 09, 2012
Brayden
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This novel is about a high-schooler named Carietta White. She is being tortured by her classmates and by her very religious mother. What the classmates don't know is that Carrie has the psychic power, telekinesis. Her mother tells her not to use it because it is "satan's power." And when a girl Sue Snell starts to feel bad for Carrie, she tells her boyfriend to go to prom with Carrie. But another girl named Chris Hargenson tells her boyfriend to kill a pig and keep the blood in a
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Apr 17, 2007
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Oct 18, 2010
William
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Amazing details! This book really makes you think about the abuse that one person can endure until finally snaping, taking her, and everyone else, down into the dark holes of reality.
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Mar 13, 2011
Slim and Easy to Read: Stephen King's first published novel wasn't always a sure thing. Rescued from the trash by the author's wife Tabitha, "Carrie" very nearly evaded publication. Thankfully though, "Carrie" got published when the now-critically acclaimed novelist finished off the novel and sold it.
"Carrie" is not a novel that is great in length and in that respect is very much unlike the majority of the american author's latter works of fiction, and of non-fict More...
"Carrie" is not a novel that is great in length and in that respect is very much unlike the majority of the american author's latter works of fiction, and of non-fict More...
Apr 02, 2009
The book I am reviewing is Carrie by Stephen King it is a fiction book which means its not real. The theme is don’t be mean with others just because they have different beliefs and personalities.
This book is about a girl named Carrie white everyone in the school hates her because she is a little weird. The book starts with a volley ball match in gym and the team loses just because of Carrie. Also there are showers in their school and when Carrie and the other girls were taking a show More...
This book is about a girl named Carrie white everyone in the school hates her because she is a little weird. The book starts with a volley ball match in gym and the team loses just because of Carrie. Also there are showers in their school and when Carrie and the other girls were taking a show More...
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Jan 15, 2009
Carrie by Stephen King
Rated: 6/10. Not King's best story (I believe it was his first) but an interesting format-- it is written like an academic text, citing "sources" in addition to using narratives.
Basic Plot: Most of you already are familiar with the basic plot of this book, but I will attempt to summarize...
When Carrie gets her first period during gym class, the girls are mean to her, throwing tampons and yelling at her. One girl, Sue, feels badly about having b More...
Rated: 6/10. Not King's best story (I believe it was his first) but an interesting format-- it is written like an academic text, citing "sources" in addition to using narratives.
Basic Plot: Most of you already are familiar with the basic plot of this book, but I will attempt to summarize...
When Carrie gets her first period during gym class, the girls are mean to her, throwing tampons and yelling at her. One girl, Sue, feels badly about having b More...
Dec 20, 2008
Ben
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this is a weird book. i never read it before. it's his first novel, and he's really ambitious in the way he wants to tell the story: jumping around from different points of view, forward and backward in time, into and out of newspaper reports, textbook accounts, courtroom cross-examinations, police interviews, etc. and in general that stuff doesn't work, it just breaks up the tension and the mystery. BUT... STILL... the talent is right there screaming in your face right from page one... guy know
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Feb 14, 2012
Donovan
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Carrie is an early Stephen King novel (and despite his view that it was terrible) that is a great read. It is easy enough to find yourself identifying with Carrie as a character and at the same time despising her too. I think this is a great Stephen King character mechanism and really helps with the supernatural side of the story. The other characters in the book are well written to the point that they can be down right frustrating and infuriating - but in a good way.
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Feb 03, 2012
Nicole
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Zitat
„CARRIE WHITE BRENNT FÜR IHRE SÜNDEN! JESUS IRRT SICH NIE!“
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In dem kleinen Dorf Chamberlain geht etwas Seltsames vor. Schon damals war man sich dessen nur zu gut bewusst. Es regnete Steine auf das Haus der Whites. Doch wenn man glaubte, dass dieses seltsame Phänomen damals zum ersten und einzigen Mal aufgetaucht war, dann hatte man sich geirrt.
Carrie ist 16 Jahre alt und eine Außenseiterin. In der High School halten sie alle für verrückt, weil ihre Mutter ihr d More...
„CARRIE WHITE BRENNT FÜR IHRE SÜNDEN! JESUS IRRT SICH NIE!“
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In dem kleinen Dorf Chamberlain geht etwas Seltsames vor. Schon damals war man sich dessen nur zu gut bewusst. Es regnete Steine auf das Haus der Whites. Doch wenn man glaubte, dass dieses seltsame Phänomen damals zum ersten und einzigen Mal aufgetaucht war, dann hatte man sich geirrt.
Carrie ist 16 Jahre alt und eine Außenseiterin. In der High School halten sie alle für verrückt, weil ihre Mutter ihr d More...
Dec 23, 2011
Stephen
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"Carrie White is no ordinary girl"
The blurb on the back cover refers of course to Carrie's latent telekinetic abilities but it's clear to all that Carrie does not fit in even before her powers become apparent. The basic plot of Carrie stems from perceived notions of normalcy and social acceptance in King's home state of Maine (the character of Carrie is partly a composite of two girls King knew from his childhood), one of the most White Anglo-Saxon Protestant states in the More...
The blurb on the back cover refers of course to Carrie's latent telekinetic abilities but it's clear to all that Carrie does not fit in even before her powers become apparent. The basic plot of Carrie stems from perceived notions of normalcy and social acceptance in King's home state of Maine (the character of Carrie is partly a composite of two girls King knew from his childhood), one of the most White Anglo-Saxon Protestant states in the More...
Nov 28, 2011
Dawn
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Liked the book and the ending was very good. Not bad for King's first novel.
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Mistake by Stephen King: Stephen King made a mistake with Carrie's age in parts of the story. Carrie is clearly 17 yrs old because he gives her specific birth date. However, in more than one place in the story he has her at 16 yrs old.
Weak part of story: While I know this is a work of fiction, in my opinion, I think it would've been more believable if Tommy Ross took Carrie to More...
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Mistake by Stephen King: Stephen King made a mistake with Carrie's age in parts of the story. Carrie is clearly 17 yrs old because he gives her specific birth date. However, in more than one place in the story he has her at 16 yrs old.
Weak part of story: While I know this is a work of fiction, in my opinion, I think it would've been more believable if Tommy Ross took Carrie to More...
Nov 01, 2011
Chris
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I picked this up from the library as my token Halloween read. Although Carrie is definitely "commercial" literature--Stephen King openly admits in the preface that he wrote it for money--it still is an amazingly complex and well-constructed little novel. What most impressed me was King's ability to empathize very deeply with Carrie, so much that the villainy is almost totally displaced from Carrie onto the town that engendered her anger and loneliness. The villainy of the circumstance
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Oct 14, 2011
Small.t
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I loved the movie, and as the books are usually better than the movies, I had high expectations. Everyone knows the story, telepathic, abused, Christian outcast Carrie White goes psycho at the prom when pigs' blood is dumped on her as a prank. The movie was far superior. I did love the writing style of King, as always, but the way it was written still bugs me. When we first start off, there is all kinds of news articles and interviews. Which is good, but they soon show up in the middle of paragr
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Oct 03, 2011
Lisa
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Okay read. I liked the movie better.
I found the character of Carrie more sympathetic in the movie. The novel shows her a bit differently. She is deep down a very angry girl, while on the outside she appears to be a bumbling idiot. At least from the way her classmates and teachers describe her.
I know the point is that you are supposed to feel sympathy for her because of the way she has been raised. Maybe I'm as bad as the classmates but I found it hard at times. I knew her iss More...
I found the character of Carrie more sympathetic in the movie. The novel shows her a bit differently. She is deep down a very angry girl, while on the outside she appears to be a bumbling idiot. At least from the way her classmates and teachers describe her.
I know the point is that you are supposed to feel sympathy for her because of the way she has been raised. Maybe I'm as bad as the classmates but I found it hard at times. I knew her iss More...
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Sep 26, 2011
Kaethe
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The idea is still brilliant: school misfit suffers a final humiliation and unleashes her telekinetic powers on the bullies who have tormented her. The idea of telling the story through various sources, books published after the event, AP wire stories during the event, etc., that's still good. And the tight focus on a small group of teenagers, high school seniors, falling in love, doing stupid, mean things, doing nice things, being interested in prom and sex, that's good too.
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Sep 19, 2011
Jade
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I really loved this story when I was in high school. I need to re-read it because early, genuine Stephen King is so good. Though Carrie is not a feel good novel the imagery is really amazing. King does an awesome job at relating how hard life can be for a lonely girl who only wants love and acceptance in a world where she can't find any. While reading this book I almost wanted to cry because it's so painful to read of someone who's situation can't get better and to give her a sort of redemption
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