Carrie - Stephen King Reviews

Sometimes when I read horror books, I forget where my interest stemmed from, and the first horror book I truly was scared by was Carrie by Stephen King. It was not the first of his I read - that was Salem's Lot - but it was one that seemed really unique and it was read within a few days. It was written in 1974 and I believe that there ...  Read the complete review

Having recently finished Stephen King's latest thrilling epic, Under The Dome, I came to the decision that I rather quite fancied going back to the beginning and re-reading some of his earlier (and some would argue) better work and where better to start than with this, his debut novel, Carrie.... Carrie is perhaps best known ...  Read the complete review

This is a very good first novel, but keep in mind that it is a first novel. The story is simple and unoriginal (in fact his first 3 books have unoriginal stories) but he does have a nice twist on things. It is a story of a badly bullied girl who has been screwed up my her mother and developed the power to move things with her ...  Read the complete review

Stephen King's debut novel - and probably his shortest too. I am still not sure about Carrie. I think it is a good book... but it's not great. Stephen King has come out with some fantastic creations, all memorable stories. But Carrie to me isn't one of them. I feel bad saying this but I think Firestarter told the story of a girl ...  Read the complete review

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 ...  Read the complete review

One of a long line of King books dealing with mind- powers and such things as ESP or Pyrokenesis, on this part, Carrie explores the tragic world of a young girl who lives with a dominating mother and is bullied at school. King seemed to be fascinated with mind powers at this early time in his career, this appears to be a reflection on ...  Read the complete review

In my humble opinion this is the best book of Stephen King because it analyses deeply American teenagers who are sometimes very cruel. Carrie is a 15-year-old girl who has been bullied since she was a child. Why? Because she's simply "strange": she has received a very rigid education (she must wear long, old fashioned ...  Read the complete review

This is a book that all bullies should read just so they know what they could be getting themseles into. Carrie is a girl with no friends, she's mercilessly bullied by just about everyone in her school. At the start of the book she's in the shower and her first period starts. She goes running naked in search of help ...  Read the complete review

Carrie is a girl who developes telekinetic powers. she has been brought up by her mother, who has sheltered and protected her from the outside world. her mother is an OTT christian. carrie is an outcast. no-one likes her and it's mainly her uglyness and mums fault. carrie starts to develope her powers and uses them to get ...  Read the complete review

I used to read a lot and this is the book that got me into horror reading. I had already seen the film but as what people normally say "The film is completely different to the book" They were right. The book was a thousand times better. I had never believed that a book could ever scare me like a film does but this book did just ...  Read the complete review

Carrie is one of Stephen Kings earliest novels, and arguably one of his best. It is quite short in length which may even qualify it for short story status, but even so, there i smore than enough here to both scare us and make us ponder upon our own actions and of those about us. Carrie, the main character in the novel, has ...  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 ...  Read the complete review

This was Stephen King's first published novel, and it rapidly kick-started his phenomenally successful career. It's also notable for being rather shorter than most of his later novels, since he had not yet developed his occasional habit of over-writing! The text of the story is interspersed with fake newspaper stories, ...  Read the complete review