11th June, 2007
Carrie by Stephen King
If you're new here, you may want to subscribe to my RSS feed. Thanks for visiting!
This book really gave me the horrors! After reading the first 20 pages I felt tired and took a nap. And had a bad dream! But, I still continued reading the book nevertheless.
Carrie was Stephen King’s first horror novel and it definitely does its job. Carrie is just a plain girl with the gift of telekinesis. Nobody else knows about it except her mother. The most frightening character in this book is Carrie’s overly religious and completely paranoid mother, Margaret White. Carrie’s father, Ralph, passed away when she was small so, it’s only Carrie and her mother at home.
Their house is decorated with numerous religious pictures (mostly biblical characters in trouble) and also a huge crucifix with the dying Jesus Christ. Carrie’s mother is also always praying for her and her daughter’s sins. To her, it is already a sin for being a woman and also a sin for a woman to have her menstruation.
That was why she never explained to Carrie about the monthly cycle. While cleaning up after playing volleyball in the girls’ locker room at Ewen (U-win) High School, Carrie found blood dripping down her legs. She doesn’t know that she’s begun menstruating and the other girls weren’t any help. They only teased and bullied her.
Carrie was always the butt of jokes in school and she doesn’t stand up for herself. Anyway, one of the girls, Susan Snell, felt badly for Carrie and regretted teasing her in the locker room with the other girls, asked her boyfriend, Tommy Ross to bring Carrie to the prom.
Tommy nervously asked Carrie and she accepted. However, her mother was not very happy about it. In fact, she got hysterical and ordered Carrie to pray for her sins in the closet.
Then, there’s Chris Hargensen, the spoilt daughter of a rich lawyer. She’s forever making Carrie’s life like hell in school and she’s upset that she’s not allowed to go to the prom, as punishment for teasing Carrie in the locker room. No, she won’t sit down quietly of course. She’s going to pay back to Carrie. On Prom Night, too.
Initially, Carrie’s prom night was magical and thrilling. The popular Tommy Ross is her date and she looks stunning in her homemade dress. Lo and behold, Tommy and Carrie were even voted Prom King and Queen of the 1979 Spring Ball. Both went onstage and sat on the special ‘thrones’ for the King and Queen of the prom and Carrie felt terribly overwhelmed when something splashed all over her. Pig’s blood.
From then on, the terror began in the town of Chamberlain.
For the faint-hearted, no reading this book alone at night.
I’ve watched Carrie (1976 film) starring Sissy Spacek as Carrie. My sister did warn me about the chilling sound effects and Carrie’s mother but I watched it anyway. Don’t watch it alone, I’m warning you! =D
Other Bloggers’ Reviews: Erin
If you enjoyed this post, make sure you subscribe to my RSS feed!
- The Girl Who Loved Tom Gordon by Stephen King
- Firestarter by Stephen King
- Twilight by Stephenie Meyer
- Confessions of a Shopaholic by Sophie Kinsella
- Charlie and the Chocolate Factory by Roald Dahl
Posted in Authors K, Horror, Titles C at 3:46 am |
4 Comments
RSS feed for comments on this post
Add a Comment
Back to Top
|
On July 11, 2007 at 1:48 pm Erin said:
I usually loved King’s earlier stuff, but I was very disappointed with Carrie. (Review here http://thepaperbackstash.blogspot.com/search?q=carrie)
Something about it just irritated me. Loved Firestarter, The Shining, Pet Semetary, etc though
On July 14, 2007 at 5:06 am Josette said:
Carrie was King’s first book, so it might not be as good as his later works but still it manages to scare readers like me! I have yet to read The Shining…
On January 10, 2008 at 11:27 am horror books said:
I was quite disappointed with this one, more of a modern king fan I think.
On February 4, 2008 at 6:43 am Josette said:
horror books: Well, this was his first book. Probably wasn’t his best but it still gave me the shivers!