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(5 Votes)Review of Carrie
- El escalofriante caso de una joven en apariencia insignificante que se transformó en un ser de poderes anormales, sembrando el terror en su ciudad. Con pulo mágico para mantener la tensión a lo largo de todo el libro, Stephen King narra la atormentada adolescencia de Carrie, y nos envuelve en una atmósfera sobrecogedora cuando la muchacha realiza una seie de descubrimientos hasta llegar al terrible momento de la vengaza. esta novela fue llevada al cina y obtuvo un imenso éxito de público y de crítica.
From the Trade Paperback edition.
Product Description
- 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
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(5) Comments for Carrie
- Posted by Anonnymous on June 13, 2004
this book was soooo good, stephen king kicks ass, scares the fucking shit outta me evry time.this one wanst so scary tho, books usually arent.his movies though?damn fcuking straight, their scary!
Score: 10
- Posted by Anonnymous on December 1, 2004
Okay, first of all, I was disappointed. I love being scared, and I was almost ready to cry when the movie ended. I really wanted to piss my pants! What happened, Stephen King? :(
Score: 4
- Posted by Anonnymous on February 16, 2005
neva read the book but love the movie
Score: 5
- Posted by Anonnymous on January 5, 2006
fuck yea
Score: 5 - Posted by Anonnymous on January 17, 2006
a great book ...even without the supernatural element ...a good look at the pressures of being on the outside of the so called popular people
Score: 8
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