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Carrie (Novel); By Stephen King
Topic Started: Mar 2 2014, 11:21 PM (993 Views)
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Carrie is an American epistolary novel and author Stephen King's first published novel, released on April 5, 1974, with an approximate first print-run of 30,000 copies. Set in the then-future year of 1979, it revolves around the eponymous Carrietta N. "Carrie" White, a shy high school girl who uses her newly discovered telekinetic powers to exact revenge on those who tease her—in the process, causing one of the worst disasters in American history. King has commented that he finds the work to be "raw" and "with a surprising power to hurt and horrify." It is one of the most frequently banned books in United States schools. Much of the book is written in an epistolary structure, using newspaper clippings, magazine articles, letters, and excerpts from books to tell how Carrie destroyed the fictional town of Chamberlain, Maine while exacting revenge on her bullying classmates.
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I love reading Carrie, which I do every year. It was the first book I ever read from cover to cover in one go. I gave my copy to my 14 year old daughter to read a few months ago, and she loved it too.
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Apr 5 2014, 07:28 PM
Happy Birthday Carrie<3.

Lulz, I bet Stephen King feels old as fuck.
Nah, the million dollars he gets a week probably keeps him feeling young lol
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Mar 4 2014, 03:44 AM
Anyway, I prefer this to any of the movies.
Honestly, I'm not sure if his books just don't translate well to film or if they just all end up bad. I'm not positive, but they are pretty much all bad.
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The first King book I ever read, out of my junior high school library (the had the first edition pictured above.) Changed my life, or my literary life, anyway.

I don't like that cover, either. The woman on the cover looks more like her mother, to me.

I've been having a debate with some folks on another site on whether this book is appropriate for 12 or 13 year-olds. It's sad how overprotective people have become since I was a teenager.
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I haven't read this book in a few years but damn I love it to pieces! ((:
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Never knew the book existed.
You kill or you die. Or you die and you kill.
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hungry ghost
Jul 28 2014, 03:55 PM
I've been having a debate with some folks on another site on whether this book is appropriate for 12 or 13 year-olds. It's sad how overprotective people have become since I was a teenager.
Are you insisting that people were more understanding then and how much they've tightened their grip since?
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Jul 31 2014, 10:03 PM
Are you insisting that people were more understanding then and how much they've tightened their grip since?
Understanding? I'm saying that when I was a teenager we were trusted to find our own reading material, and teachers were happy to see us reading "above our level."

Now they have to read "young adult" novels till they're 18 and even then they're not off the leash; then it's "new adult" novels.

I guess they will be able to read regular books when they are about 40.
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I picked up a copy just before the remake came out, and enjoyed it. Definitely better than the movies


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I reread this before the remake came out and it only made me more mad that the movie trimmed out so much of what I enjoyed from the book. (And then to find out that they had filmed a lot of the scenes I wanted, but the studio axed it, made me even more infuriated.) I can never really get behind imagining Carrie as a chubby girl though, the way the book describes her.
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A great novel, nice and short and to the point. It's not exactly frightening throughout, but the build up and the climax is sublime. One of my favourite independent publishing houses, Cemetery Dance, released an amazing edition late last year, I picked up the "Gift edition" an unsigned, illustrated, deluxe sized slipcased edition. Truly a beautiful book, the only thing better would have been the signed limited or lettered edition.
Here's a few shots of my book (you must indulge me here, I love my collection):
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The limitation page with art from Glenn Chadbourne, a well known artist amongst Stephen King collectors. His art work will adorn the limitation pages for the rest of this series of books, known as the Stephen King Doubleday series. I believe it will also include, 'Salem's Lot, The Shining, Night Shift, The Stand and Pet Semetary.
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While the rest of the art for each other book will differ, mostly from experienced Stephen King artists. For this one the cover and interior art was provided my Tomislav Tikulin, whom, I believe, has done a few foreign editions of King's work.
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That artwork is amazing. The only one I really take issue with is the last one, and even then, it's nothing to do with the actual quality; it's more the fact that Margaret would never let Carrie wear a tank top like that. Beyond that, though, those are some beautiful drawings.

I've got the Pocket Books paperback from 1999, the one with the red cover. It is kind of sloppy compared to Stephen King's later books, but I still love it as much as the movie. There's some stuff I wish the film could've included from the book (and that I wish the 2013 remake didn't cut), but at the same time, the film has its own unique style. They're both great versions of the same story.

And as for the original cover: it was the '70s. From what I've seen at Goodwill stores, every book cover looked like that back then.
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I would honestly love to see a film adaptation that has a prom scene just like the one in the book. While her standing on the stage is completely iconic, the idea of her running away and then coming back to enact revenge is so badass to me.
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I finished reading this for the first time last night. A good read. There are things I love about it over the movie and then there are other things I love about the movie over this book. It took me a little time to get use to the structure of the book. The non-linearity. Overall, I'd say it works. I can't remember if in The Rage: Carrie 2
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