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Carrie
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bookshelves: a-fiction, aa-have-a-copy, adventure, fantasy, films-and-filmmaking, horror, isolation, science-fiction, setting-na-usa, thriller, setting-na-usa-new-england
Nov 16, 2017
bookshelves: a-fiction, aa-have-a-copy, adventure, fantasy, films-and-filmmaking, horror, isolation, science-fiction, setting-na-usa, thriller, setting-na-usa-new-england
Another in a long line of Stephen King stories that I have enjoyed.
And, for anyone who has seen the movie(s), but hasn't read the book: you know the basic idea, but the book is different enough to still entertain.
Clearly King, with stylistic approaches both familiar (eg, use of "source material" like AP Wire stories and government commission findings) and slightly rough. It's like watching the explosive talent of Stephen King as it revels in its own first flush of puberty. An icky analogy, perhaps, but one that came to mind as I read it. In other words, the writing isn't as great as his later works, but I can imagine that people reading Carrie, when it first came out, knew they were encountering a keeper.
And Carrie's mom? The movie did NOT do her batshit craziness justice. Not at all. It's easy to believe that Carrie never had a chance, TK or not.
(My only complaint is edition-dependent. I've read ISBN 0451157443. Skip this one, as there are NUMEROUS typos, throughout. Someone didn't pay a line-editor.)
And, for anyone who has seen the movie(s), but hasn't read the book: you know the basic idea, but the book is different enough to still entertain.
Clearly King, with stylistic approaches both familiar (eg, use of "source material" like AP Wire stories and government commission findings) and slightly rough. It's like watching the explosive talent of Stephen King as it revels in its own first flush of puberty. An icky analogy, perhaps, but one that came to mind as I read it. In other words, the writing isn't as great as his later works, but I can imagine that people reading Carrie, when it first came out, knew they were encountering a keeper.
And Carrie's mom? The movie did NOT do her batshit craziness justice. Not at all. It's easy to believe that Carrie never had a chance, TK or not.
(My only complaint is edition-dependent. I've read ISBN 0451157443. Skip this one, as there are NUMEROUS typos, throughout. Someone didn't pay a line-editor.)
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