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Carrie

Stephen King

Start date: October 1, 2024

Finish date: October 31, 2024

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May 14, 2021 Ashley W rated it liked it

Shelves: 0stand-alone, genre-horror, author-king, 201-300-pages

First, did not care for the format. I just don't like jumping accounts. Though it definitely added to the uniqueness of the book, it just didn't do it for me.
Now that's done.
Honestly, I don't blame Carrie one bit. No one in that town cared to check on her at all, knowing full well that her mother was loony. No one. At least the gym teacher, principal, and Sue defended her, but too little too late.
People may disagree but I think Chris was the real villain of the story. Margaret was crazy but Chri ...more

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Feb 07, 2012 midnightfaerie rated it liked it

Shelves: brain-candy, rory-gilmore

Read this when I was a teen. Love King and remembering loving this one. Never saw any of the movies though.

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Apr 22, 2024 HeatRush rated it it was amazing · review of another edition

A masterpiece. Very thought provoking and disturbing. King collages female adolescent vulnerability, religious perversion and white trash rage with such blood splattered intensity. Literally setting fire to all the petty hypocrisy that tortures marginalized youth.

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