Carrie (Carrie - Stephen King)

Member Name: roger_smith

Product:	Carrie - Stephen King
Date:	04/10/00 (76 review reads)
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Advantages: Good suspense and ending

Disadvantages: Film makes bad impression

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 the adolescents who tossed pig blood on her at the prom.

The point at which the pig blood is tossed upon Carrie is not the end of the book as it is the end of the movie. I will not reveal the end of the book except to say two things: the car containing John Travolta's and Nancy Allen's characters actually does explode, and the book does not end in any way like the movie. The ending in the book is better.

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