Carrie

Mass Market Paperback, 253 pages

English language

Published Oct. 16, 1999 by Pocket Books.

ISBN:
978-0-671-03972-1
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OCLC Number:
758148886

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4 stars (1 review)

A modern classic, Carrie introduced a distinctive new voice in American fiction -- Stephen King. The story of misunderstood high school girl Carrie White, her extraordinary telekinetic powers, and her violent rampage of revenge, remains one of the most barrier-breaking and shocking novels of all time.

Make a date with terror and live the nightmare that is...Carrie --back cover

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Carrie by Stephen King

4 stars

As a lifelong Stephen King fan, somehow I’ve never read Carrie. It’s one of those things where I’ve picked up all the plot points through cultural osmosis, I’ve seen the movie (the good one), I’ve talked about it with my friends as though I know about it. But I’ve never held the physical copy in my hands until last week.

I liked it. I don’t really have a ton to say about it. It was an extremely short read, and there were a lot of precursors to what would become eventual King hallmarks – overly religous fanatical whackjobs; bullies that were strangely too smart and/or too psychopathic to be believable; and entire towns being destroyed as a way to end the book like a Lovecraftian cleansing bolt of lightning. Happy to finally have read it.

Subjects

  • Horror & ghost stories
  • Horror - General
  • Fiction
  • Fiction - Horror
  • Horror
  • Science Fiction - General
  • Fiction / Horror