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Fiction.
Horror.
Literature.
Thriller.
An unpopular teenage girl whose mother is a religious fanatic is tormented and teased to the breaking point by her more popular schoolmates and uses her hidden telekinetic powers to inflict a terrifying revenge.
lquilter: If you like tortured pyrokinetics with tragic endings, and don't mind radical changes in mood and style ... try Stephen King's Carrie for the horror take, and Mercedes Lackey's Brightly Burning for the fantasy take.
Un racconto lungo che senz’altro può essere annoverato tra i capolavori del re. Ringraziamo tutti sua moglie per avergli salvato questo libretto perché ci saremmo persi una sua opera che, per quanto breve, riassume per certi versi buona parte dell’universo immaginifico di King. Credo che Carrie possa essere la prova che tutto l’universo di King sia sempre stato legato da un filo comune dato che questa sua prima opera sembra quasi introdurre quelle che saranno le ambientazioni future di quasi tutti i suoi scritti più famosi.
Hollywood needs to stop making movies out of Stephen King novels. They are fantastic on the page, but when someone tries to make it into a movie, they fail miserably. Although, I do get a kick out of King's cameos. This book, in itself, was great! The reader really gets to know Carrie and her sufferings. Her mother is a nightmare and everyone deserved to die. LOL. King's first and one of his best stories. IMHO. ( )
This is Stephen Kings first book and a classic tale of horror. I loved the way King wrote this book. He used the usual narative with newspaper and journal entries wove in. A great horror novel. ( )
This is for Tabby, who got me into it—and then bailed me out of it.
First words
News item from the Westover (Me.) weekly Enterprise, August 19, 1966: RAIN OF STONES REPORTED
Quotations
Sometimes, like now, the ivy looked like a grotesque giant hand ridged with great veins which had sprung up out of the ground to grip the building. She approached it with dragging feet.
She wished forlornly and constantly that Ewan High had individual - and thus private - showers like the ones at Andover or Boxford. They stared. They always stared.
Jesus watches from the wall, but his face is cold as stone. And if he loves me - as she tells me - why do I feel so all alone?
Your pimples are the Lord's way of chastising you.
"Red," Momma murmured. "I might have known it would be red."
Boys. Yes, boys come next. After the blood the boys come. Like sniffing dogs, grinning and slobbering, trying to find out where that smell is. That...smell!
But sorry is the Kool-Aid of human emotions. It's what you say when you spill a cup of coffee or throw a gutterball when you're bowling with the girls in the league. True sorrow is as rare as true love.
God had turned His face away and why not? This horror was as much His doing as hers.
People don't get better, they just get smarter. When you get smarter you don't stop pulling the wings off flies, you just think of better reasons for doing it.
Last words
I bet she'll be a worldbeeter someday. All my love, Melia
Fiction.
Horror.
Literature.
Thriller.
An unpopular teenage girl whose mother is a religious fanatic is tormented and teased to the breaking point by her more popular schoolmates and uses her hidden telekinetic powers to inflict a terrifying revenge.
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Stephen King's first published novel is a fantastic story for those curious high school readers and adults alike looking for a chill. Young Carrie is an aloof girl with an overbearing mother, who ultimately turns the tables on those who poke fun at her with her telekinetic powers. For those who may be reluctant readers, you can always tell kids that Stephen King always pushes the limits in scarring the wits out of you. Here is the trailer to the acclaimed 1976 film adaptation: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=yJe0iV...
Haiku summary
The mean girls tease her. Uh-oh. Shouldn’t have picked on Someone who’s psychic. (Carnophile)
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Credo che Carrie possa essere la prova che tutto l’universo di King sia sempre stato legato da un filo comune dato che questa sua prima opera sembra quasi introdurre quelle che saranno le ambientazioni future di quasi tutti i suoi scritti più famosi.