Carrie - Stephen King

Carrie - Stephen King: carries revenge (303 words)
by barbie84 - written on 16.02.08 (Useful, 88 readings)
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carrie was stephen kings first published book. carrie is a young girl whos mother is pritty much a religious freak who has over the years physically and mentally abused her daughter, carrie has a horrid time at school too, she is a social outcast, too plain and doesnt wear the correct fashions so she doesnt have any friends. At the begining of the book carrie begins her first period wholst taking a shower after a games lesson at school, they are comunial showers so she gets a lot of ridicule and tormenting from the other pupils and once again becomes the laughing stock of the school. poor carrie was so scared, her mother had never discussed anything ...

Words are better than pictures (168 words)
by reyaazm - written on 22.08.00 (Very useful, 56 readings)
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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 ...

Carrie - Stephen King: Don't Mess With This Bitch! (1091 words)
by bonsibabe - written on 06.03.07 (Very useful, 493 readings)
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For those of you who do not know who Stephen King is (apart from being my favourite author of fiction books!), please let me give you a litle background before I get into the meat of the review. Stephen King was born in 1947. His parents split up when he was very young and his mother really had to work hard to provide for Stephen and his older brother David. He went to college and later became a teacher, but writing was and still is his first love. He married (his wife is the author Tabitha King) and wrote short stories to supplement his income, which was not very much. Carrie was his first book (the first of many) and was accepted for publication in 1973 by ...