Carrie - Stephen King

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 ...  Read the complete review

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 ...  Read the complete review

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 ...  Read the complete review

Stephen King's - Carrie This book was published in 1974, and was his first book to be published but the 4th one her wrote; originally it was meant to be a short story but it then evolved into a complete novel. There is some controversy about this book and in some school readings it was banned because of its themes and features. The book uses real fiction documents like newspaper reports and other extracts 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 ...  Read the complete review

This is the first Stephen King thriller that hit the best-seller lists, about a girl named Carrie White with telekinesis who does indeed ruin her prom night out of a sense of vengeance. Trust me - you want to buy the book. The movie does not do the book justice at all. King develops a sense of unavoidable suspense which drags you along almost despite yourself, making you feel both horror and compassion at the same time. I know that I could understand why Carrie would feel betrayed by her classmates; she does not have enough peer experience or social polish to be able to distinguish between the misguided kindness of Sue Snell and her boyfriend and the meanness of ...  Read the complete review