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Carrie
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Binding: Mass Market Paperback
Dewey Decimal Number: 813.54
EAN: 9780671039721
ISBN: 0671039725
Label: Pocket
Manufacturer: Pocket
Number Of Items: 1
Number Of Pages: 272
Publication Date: November 01, 2002
Publisher: Pocket
Studio: Pocket
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Editorial 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
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 finally exploding. He builds the tension in this early work by piecing together extracts from newspaper reports, journals, and scientific papers, as well as more traditional first- and third-person narrative in order to reveal what lurks beneath the surface of Chamberlain, Maine.
News item from the Westover (ME) weekly Enterprise, August 19, 1966: "Rain of Stones Reported: It was reliably reported by several persons that a rain of stones fell from a clear blue sky on Carlin Street in the town of Chamberlain on August 17th."
Although the supernatural pyrotechnics are handled with King's customary aplomb, it is the carefully drawn portrait of the little horrors of small towns, high schools, and adolescent sexuality that give this novel its power, and assures its place in the King canon. --Simon Leake
Customer Reviews
Average Rating: 
Rating:  - Excellent Book
I have watched the movie Carrie in the past and couldn't wait to get my hands on the book. When it finally arrived I couldn't put the book down. I still want to get Stephen Kings to sign this book when he starts signing books again and get another Stephen Kings book since I will only get to send two books in my life time.
Rating: - Carrie
I've been one of Mr. King's "Constant Readers" for years. However, my reading of his tales began with Gerald's Game and, until this past year, I never read anything published before it.
I now realize how unfortunate that was! The past few months have allowed me to rediscover Stephen King in an entirely new light. I finished Carrie this evening from my Kindle. (I've been THRILLED about all the classic King works popping up reguarly, as of late, in Kindle format. KEEP THEM COMING ... Read More
Rating: - carrie review
Carrie
By Sai Hendrij
Stephen Kings Carrie is a book of the horror genre; it describes the isolation of teenage youth at an evanescent level. Basically often unseen by anyone who is not a teenager themselves or someone who can relate to that feeling. That's the main reason I recommend it to the teenage public more so than adults and much more so than the younger audiences.
To start, Carrie is a teenage girl who still has not reached puberty. Until now ... Read More
Rating:  - Great First Novel
The first novel from Stephen King shows the beginnings of what most people have come to love in his works, but the book has lost some of its impact as the years have gone by. Still a really good read and considerably short compared to most King novels. Great place to start if you have never read Stephen King before (if there is anyone out there who hasn't)
Rating: - Suprising but good
Good story idea, especially for a guy to write. I was suprised at how the writting style is different from stephen's other works, this is more like a story and has articles from witnesses and other people added in. Very easy to read, I read it in about a 6 hour car ride.
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