Carrie - Stephen King > Reviews

Advantages: classic horror
Disadvantages: too short

...brief outline of the story. Carrie is a teenager who is bullied at school and tormented by her mother at home. She discovers that she has telekinetic powers. After being cruel to Carrie another pupil at school, sue, persuades her boyfriend to take Carrie to the prom. The evening seems to go well but others have a nasty surprise in store for Carrie. They fix it for her and her date Tom to become prom King and Queen, then when they are on stage they ... Read review

Advantages: it makes you face the real world
Disadvantages: it makes you face the real world

...read (or seen the movie) Carrie yet?? I wouldn't dare to call myself a fan of Stephen King if I haven't. Not only it's his first book, published in 1974, the first of the neverending row of his bestselling novels, but it's nothing but pure horror story. I admired every aspect of it, the narrating, the dialogues, environment and characters. I think it's the characters that turned Carrie into a legend. The storyline The beginning couldn't be more ... Read review

Advantages: Terror and empathy, uniquely blended until you're totally off-balance.
Disadvantages: Nope - I'm stuck here. If you're at all interested in horror fiction, I can't think of any.

...Small wonder then that Carrie is as maladjusted as she is. The result of these circumstances is a girl very similar to somebody you knew at school, the quiet girl in the corner who never seemed to get on. Therein lies much of the novel's genius. When the girls in the locker room taunt Carrie over her first period, you might well remember doing something similar to you own girl in the corner. Here you'll get a chance to see in a fresh light some of ... Read review

Advantages: Excellent plot and pace
Disadvantages: Not as long as his later books....

Carrie is Stephen King's first novel. Written in 1973, Carrie would have been scrapped if it weren't for King's wife who encouraged him to continue writing. The version I read has an introduction written by Stephen King himself that explains how he came about the novel. Carrete White is a combination of two girls King used to know at school that were both bullied and abused. Her story is to represent what must be going on inside somebody's head after ... Read review

Advantages: Powerful message, unusual take on how revenge can be inflicted
Disadvantages: Short...nothing else!

...devil and sin, and something Carrie should be punished for. Yet Carrie has a secret which her mother refuses to acknowledge, and no-one truly realises the extent of- she has the power of telekinesis, the ability to move things or make events happen through willpower alone. Her life begins to turn around when she is asked to the school prom night by popular Tommy Ross (an idea brought about by his girlfriend after feeling ashamed for what happened ... Read review

Advantages: brevity, character development
Disadvantages: unusual format

...of you who don't know, Carrie is a story about a girl who is bullied into religious fanaticism by her over-zealous she-bull of a mother, which obviously makes her an awkward social outcast at school. This leads to years of bullying that leave her numb to most things, untrusting, and bitter. After she discovers that she can control her telekinesis, or TK, ability, she finds new strength in herself to deal with her tormenters. She even finds courage ... Read review

Advantages: Background and detail, good plot
Disadvantages: Hard to swallow if you're not a fan of supernatural stuff

...to rectify that. I chose Carrie because I was intrigued by the idea that a man would choose to write about an adolescent girl in such a honest, revealing and painful way. My copy had a foreword by King where he says that Carrie was based on two girls he went to school with (one with a very religious mother, the other the typical ugly misfit), who were ostracized because they were different to everyone else. King then wondered 'what if these girls ... Read review

Advantages: Get a taste for The King
Disadvantages: none

Carrie was the first novel Stephen King had published. Compared to his other books this is brief. It only has 222 pages, which any King reader knows is usually about a fifth the size of his normal novels. The book was first published in the UK in 1974 .It's strange to read his early work but you know where the talent comes from. Carrie was made into a film in 1977. I have not seen the full film yet . Why I like this book Carrie really ... Read review

Advantages: exciting
Disadvantages: the writing style is very habituation-destitute

...day after the sports lessons. Carrie stands just under the shower and does not notice like she gets sometimes her menstruation first, because she was also never cleared up by her mother, she does not know what with her gets rid. Instead of helping her classmate and explaining to her that she doesn't die, the girls Carrie pelt with bandages and tampons followed from the call 'Plug up it!!!'.Also the sports teacher does not know whether she should help ... Read review

Advantages: Brilliant, original story
Disadvantages: Will feel dated for modern readers

...1976 starring Sissy Spacek as Carrie White and went on to recieve a phenomenal ammount of success. The movie is, and don't get me wrong, very, very good but it's not a patch on the novel. To me this is the perfect book. The story is simple and straightforward but doesn't feel empty. The plot is thick and incredibly entertaining and the characters are very well placed, you feel for each and everyone of them especially the torture that Carrie White ... Read review

Advantages: GOOD INSIGHT INTO TEENGERS MINDS
Disadvantages: NONE

...the book are interesting. then when carrie gets invited to the prom by tommy who is susans boyfriend she thinks he likes her. she agrees to go and susan stays at home. the jealous teenages like chrissie who was banned from the prom are determined to get their own back and plan a horrible event to happen at the prom. well lets just say when it happens carries anger explodes and they are all trapprd in a burning school and carrie gets her revenge. when ... Read review

Advantages: A great book, a film based on the book aswell.
Disadvantages: None in my opinion but some do not like Kings Style.

...to create the character of Carrie who is a 17-year-old girl from Chamberlain. She is constantly bullied at school and everything keeps going wrong, when she puts herself out slightly more, someone always does something to ruin it, a chilling horror with many supernatural aspects, when it was created into film it was seen as quite scary and some say that it is still as scary today as it was back then even with the increasing amount of horror writings ... Read review