Carrie - Stephen King Reviews

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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

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 the thinking ...

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 clothes ...

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 covered in ...

My love for Stephen King’s novels started with Carrie. I was 12 when this book first came out. I had my allowance and wanted something to read. I came across Carrie. It looked good so I got it. Since I was a 12-year-old girl, my mother was NOT amused. But it didn’t stop me from reading it none the less. This is about a ...

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 her own ...

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 that. To ...

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 always been a ...

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 ...

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. ...

This book is fabulous and horror filled because it tells the TRUTH about human nature and the microcosm that is high school. Though written in the early 70s we still see the same types walking the halls today-the Carries, the popular bitchy rich girl, the Sue Snells and Tommys and so on. In the film, Carrie is the beautiful Sissy Spacek. Sissy ...

This was the very first Stephen King book that I read and the one that got me hooked. I was about 14 when I read it and remember hiding it incase my parents thought it too old for me. It tells the story of Carrie, her overbearing, devoutly religeous mother and her schoolfriends. I use the term friends in the loosest of terms as these were ...

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, which ...