Carrie
Ratings778
Average rating3.8
Having watched the Sissy Spacek movie all my life, I thought I knew this story. Sure, I knew the highlights, but the book was so much better.
I finished Kerry and I have absolutely no idea how I feel about this book.
Was it interesting? Yes. Was it well written? Again yes. Was I disgusted when I was reading it? Yeah, the whole book. But did I stop reading it? Nope.
I have no idea how to rate this book, but I guess I would like to read more books written by the author.
P.S. English curses in Ukrainian translation are pretty funny.
“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.”
After a what felt like a slow start I actually really enjoyed Carrie, she's a character you feel for who's lead a sheltered and beaten down life, a cruel joke was one step to far and she snapped, a good lesson for any bullies out there.
As a big King fan I probably should have read this sooner!
3.75 stars, the slow start means I cant give a full 4!
My first King!
I definitely like his writing style. I get why people are so into him. Can't wait for my next.
Carrie White is young girl who lives in the Maine town of Chamberlain and attends school regularly at Ewen High. But Carrie is no ordinary girl. But that is probably something everyone in school says. They tease her, call her names and play tricks on her. Her mother, a strongly religious God-fearing woman has her sheltered, keeping her isolated from the experiences of an average teenager. But that is all about to change. Carrie learns that she is no ordinary girl. But in a way no one can even begin suspect. She learns about her amazing gift and puts it to good use. After an incident in a girl's locker room, a guilt stricken Sue Snell decides to make up for the horrible way she treated Carrie. But all it takes is one powerful act of wickedness to ruin Sue's amazing act of kindness, thus dooming Chamberlain, Maine forever.
I recommend this book to anyone who is or isn't a fan of Stephen King. If you're not, then this is the perfect place to start. What was originally supposed to a work of short fiction, turned out to be a novel. And it's all thanks to Tabitha King for fishing out that discarded draft covered in cigarette ashes and motivating and persuading her husband to work on the story that would eventually launch Mr. King's career as a famed author. I also recommend this book to teenagers, both who bully and are bullied in hopes that there will be some understanding to the wickedness that can come from bullying and the retaliation. The plot is great. The chapters aren't traditionally separated by numbers but by excerpts of fictional interviews, biographies and such to help reader understand the characters and their actions and also to serve as foreshadow. I have seen the movie adaptions of this book figured it was time to read it.
This is my second Stephen King since The Shining in high school. Of the two I think I prefer this one; it is just as horrifying but has the advantage of being closer to home (possibly making it more horrifying?). Good horror, in my opinion, always has a sliver of sorrow included in it, and Carrie definitely has that. The thing that sometimes took me out of the story, though, was the interspersed in-universe pieces of writing (e.g. news articles, book excerpts, etc.). I much prefer to just read a straight narrative of events, rather than “accounts” of events, but that's just me. Happy Halloween!
I've gotta say, even for King stylistically this one is a standout. Its epistolary structure makes it compulsively readable. I read Carrie in a feverish state one Sunday a coupla years ago and I'd recommend it to anyone who likes horror at ALL, regardless of your thoughts on King's work in general.
Después de haber leído 2 libros de Stephen King, me decidí a no leer ningún otro más de su autoría. No porque haya odiado los anteriores, sino porque no me causaron gran impresión. Sin embargo, hace tiempo que tenía ganas de leer Carrie porque el personaje principal me parecía interesante. Ahora que he terminado este libro en una sola sentada, solo me queda decir: Quiero otro de Stephen King!
Está historia está tan bien contada que me fue casi imposible quitarle los ojos de encima. Prueba de ello es el tiempo récord en que lo leí. Quedé completamente atrapada por la historia de Carrie. No pude evitar sentir empatía por ella, y obviamente, repudiar a su loca madre.
Tuve que leer el final dos veces; cada vez sintiendo crecer una rara sensación de felicidad agridulce. Así que lo único que me queda es seguir leyendo más libros de King, que no por gusto tiene esa fama bien ganada.
FENOMENAL. Hay mucho que quiero decir, y lo diré más adelante.
MY REVIEW
Todos debimos de conocer o haber oído hablar de Carrie, uno de los clásicos de terror del siglo XX de Stephen King. Aunque, digo yo, ¿terror? Si bien la prosa me atrapó de inmediato, no me inspiro miedo, sino angustia. Lo que sí digo: el libro es adictivo, ¡muy adictivo!
Carrie White es una joven adolescente de 17 años, solitaria, que es victima constante de burlas y humillaciones en su escuela. Hija de Margaret White, una viuda de Chamberlain, Maine, y devota religiosa AL EXTREMO. ¿Sabéis de aquellos religiosos extremistas que si ven una piedra piensan que es creado por el diablo para hacerles tropezar y pecar? Pues así son. Mrs. White cree que toda acción que no sea en nombre de dios es pecado, hace todo lo que dice en la biblia.
¿Ejemplos?
-Si tienes sexo (dentro o fuera del matrimonio) eres pecador/a.
-Si tienes el periodo menstrual, eres pecadora.
-Si fumas, eres pecadora.
-Si oyes cualquier tipo de música, excepto religiosa, eres pecadora.
-Si quedas embarazada, eres pecadora.
-Si andas en traje de baño/bikini eres pecadora.
-Si respiras su mismo aire, eres pecadora.
Y la pobre Carrie vive con ella, lo cual la hace sumamente sumisa. Y quizás lo peor no son las humillaciones de la escuela, sino los abusos que le hace su madre. Tanto así, que hay un armario en su casa (atención: la casa está RODEADA de crucifijos y cuadros con imágenes –terroríficas– de la biblia) donde encierra a Carrie para que rece pidiendo perdón por sus “pecados” frente a un enorme crucifico con la imagen de Jesús. ¿Es necesario ser tan extremistas?
Pero lo peor viene cuando, después de una clase de gimnasia y en las duchas, Carrie recibe su primera menstruación. Tengo que decir tres cosas: 1- Carrie recibe su primera menstruación a los 17 años. 2- Carrie NO SABÍA lo que es la menstruación. 3- Carrie, en medio de un ataque de pánico (porque creía que se estaba desangrando, ¿dónde se ha visto eso?) en humillada y burlada por sus compañeras de escuela.
The roses are red, the sky is blue, sugar is sweet but Carrie eats shit.
Las rosas son rojas, el cielo es azul, el azúcar es dulce pero Carrie come mierda.
Es una lástima que en español no rime.
Todo eso es el principal desencadenante de la telequinesis de Carrie, un poder mental que durante su niñez mostró pero bloqueó hasta ese momento. Dicho poder es heredado desde su abuela materna.
Sabemos que era víctima de la obsesión religiosa de su madre. Sabemos que tenía una capacidad telequinesia latente, comúnmente designada con las iniciales TC. Sabemos que este así llamado «talento insólito» es, en realidad, un rasgo hereditario producido por un gen normalmente recesivo y que rara vez se lo encuentra. Se sospecha que la capacidad telequinesia pueda tener naturaleza glandular. Sabemos que Carrie hizo por lo menos una demostración de su capacidad cuando era una pequeña, al encontrarse en una situación extrema de culpa y tensión. Sabemos que una segunda situación de este tipo se han presentado la teoría (especialmente William G. Throneberry y Julia Givens, de la Universidad de Berkeley) de que el resurgimiento de la capacidad telequinesia en ese momento tuvo su origen tanto en los factores psicológicos (la reacción de las otras chicas y la de la misma Carrie ante su primer periodo menstrual) y fisiológico (la llegada de la pubertad).
Se ha declarado un incendio en la escuela secundaria Ewen (Chamberlain, Maine). Hasta el momento no se ha podido controlar el fuego. Al iniciarse el siniestro, se realizaba un baile escolar en el establecimiento. Se estima que la conflagración tuvo su origen en un fallo de las instalaciones eléctricas. Testigos afirman que el sistema de irrigación contra incendios de la escuela comenzó a funcionar inesperadamente, originando un cortocircuito en el equipo de una orquesta de Rock. Otros testigos informan que se produjeron destrozos en los cables eléctricos centrales. Se cree que unas ciento diez personas pueden estar atrapadas en el gimnasio en llamas. Los cuerpos de bomberos de los vecinos pueblos de Westover, Motton y Lewiston comunican que han recibido peticiones de ayudas y se encuentran, o lo estarán dentro de poco, en camino. Por el momento no sabemos que haya victimas. Fin.
Esta es la chica que todo el mundo sigue considerando un monstruo. Quiero que graben eso en sus mentes. La chica que se contentaba con una hamburguesa y una root beer de veinte centavos después del único baile estudiantil de su vida para que su madre no se inquietara...
Cualquier forma de control de la mente sobre la materia acarrea consigo un tremendo desgaste de los recursos del organismo.
Personajes muy bien definidos, situaciones con una riqueza de detalles que te transportan, lugares que te hacen estar ahí, la verdad todo lo necesario para porder disfrutar de una gran historia.
Trata una situacion que está muy de moda (parece que la moda viene de los 70s) el Bulling, el maltrato escolar etc. pero con toques sobrenaturales...simplemente excelente!!!...te vende un tema serio sin que te des cuenta ....brillante.
Principalmente desde el 50% ya no se puede dejar de leer te atrapa y no se puede dejar, completamente recomendado.
Cuando se lee el libro la Pelicula de De palma cobra un sentido completamente diferente, en realidad cobra Sentido. ( Las otras versiones mejor ni hablar de ellas) ...aunque me gusta mas el desenlace del libro, mas logico dentro de la trama.
Holy Jebediah! I love King. Every time I go back to him I'm instantly trapped inside the story. Finished this in 2 days. An awesome story with a perfect mix of point of view and reports. I just wanted to know how this ends and kept going and going.
Carrie is such a strong character right from the opening scene. I felt pity and happiness for her.
Great book!
This book is excellent in so many unexpected ways. Probably mostly because last year's October horror classic [b:The Exorcist 179780 The Exorcist William Peter Blatty https://d202m5krfqbpi5.cloudfront.net/books/1375168676s/179780.jpg 1945267] came off as dimly executed pop lit that really just sufficed as a decent outline for an excellent movie. Carrie, however, is rich on all fronts. It's beautifully written, and intense as fuck, and now I understand why they made a remake of a movie that not only does everyone know the ending of, but the whole appeal of the story is based around how it ends. I mean, I still think it's a bad idea, even if they intend to be closer to the book than the 1976 movie was, but the choice is a little more understandable now.Carrie, as a character, is surprisingly unsympathetic. Impressively, in a way. It's not everyday that an author is willing to make an underdog protagonist that you don't wholeheartedly root for. In this, King simulates what its actually like to be bystander in a bullying situation. You empathize because you're human, but you don't want to because you don't want to believe that it could be you. No one wants to admit that they're a few zits, one crappy parent, one social faux pas away from being gum stuck under the popular kids' shoes. So you make justifications - why doesn't she stand up for herself, why doesn't she make an effort to look better, blah blah. We see all this through Sue Snell's eyes, how aware she is of her own hypocrisy and her desire for redemption, even if it is ultimately selfish. And doomed, of course.Carrie herself is all of our darkest desires, all of our self-hatred, all of our animosity towards the outside world that views us as an interloper. At one point she might have become a healthy happy girl, but even before prom night something had gone crooked inside her. Her inner monologue echoes that of a would-be school shooter, filled with frothing rage and cruelty. She never feels guilty for what she wants or what she does, she only grieves at the price she had to pay for it. She would have made a great supervillain.And that's another aspect that I loved about this, the metatextual side. Chapters are sandwiched between government reports and newpaper articles about the world's disastrous introduction to telekinetic individuals (TKs, decades before Looper). There's an implication of a slow soft apocalypse, as the world cowers at the thought of another Carrie rising up and perhaps doing even more damage. I like that King takes this story beyond the claustrophobic world of female bullying, even within the town of Chamberlain, Maine. Even though many connections are made to femaleness (Carrie's brutal bullying as a result of her first period is not the last significant mention of menstruation in the book), there is also a point made in how maleness serves as an accelerant on the fire. While female characters choose to act for good or ill, male characters serve as enablers or downright failures in quelling the oncoming storm. Unless of course, a storm is exactly what they had in mind.Chris Hargensen is merely an entitled brat, but her boyfriend, Billy, who for a time is willing to slaughter pigs just to satisfy her whims, is a budding sociopath. His calculated glee at enacting the prank to end all pranks reminds me of something that I've read said about making light of rape. When you tell a rape joke, you're telling rapists that what they do is perfectly normal, that everyone else is in on the joke. They think you agree with their urges to do harm. That's what Billy thinks what Chris comes to him with her idea. “Pigs blood for a pig,” he says. He doesn't even know Carrie. It's his opinion of all women. Billy, far from being a disturbing side character, is a significant detail in how Carrie, and other people like her, unravel. Pranks and bullying are all fun in games until they land in the lap of a bonafide sadist, which they inevitably will. At which point, you might as well have started World War III.I thought this might get me excited for the remake, which is coming out in a few days, but honestly, I think everything about this story that really makes it great is almost impossible to portray on film. The prose has a stream of consciousness style that's so fast and visceral it feels like the rapid fire of synapses. It's both cerebral and character-driven, as well as messy and gore-filled as the bodies we're born with. Everyone portrayed in this story is scrubbed down to the basis of who they are. But the movie might be worth it just for Julianne Moore.
Carrie, dell'ormai lontano 1974, è stato il primo romanzo di Stephen King ad essere pubblicato, grazie alla moglie che ripescò il manoscritto dalla carta straccia e incoraggiò l'autore a lavorarci ancora; è anche uno dei più brevi che King abbia scritto, e sappiamo bene quanto possono essere lunghi i libri del “Re”. King, in un'intervista, disse di trovare il lavoro “crudo” e “con un'incredibile capacità di terrorizzare” ed i fan dell'autore spesso lo indicano come uno dei romanzi più toccanti di King.
Brian De Palma ne ha creato una versione cinematografica nel 1976, con Sissy Spacek nel ruolo di Carrie, ed è stato uno dei pochi adattamenti per il cinema apprezzato anche dallo scrittore, è stato anche il primo film horror ad essere nominato agli Academy Awards per la performance della protagonista e di Piper Laurie.
Nonostante venga sempre ritenuta una storia horror, Carrie è, in realtà, un'intensa storia di emarginazione e vittimismo, il fenomeno del “bullismo” come viene indicato oggi qui sta alla base portante della storia, così come lo sono le prevaricazioni di gruppo nei confronti delle persone più deboli (apparentemente più deboli, come vedremo). Dunque un libro molto attuale anche se scritto praticamente quarant'anni fa; segno evidente di come questo fenomeno sia una costante nelle scuole e non una novità dei nostri tempi.
Il libro usa situazioni verosimili per raccontare la storia di Carrietta “Carrie” White, un'adolescente di Chamberlain, nel Maine, detentrice dalla nascita di tanti poteri psichici e segregata in casa per anni dalla madre Margaret, una pazza mentale fondamentalista cristiana. Un evento scatenante, porterà la protagonista a evocare questi poteri sepolti e dimenticati, usandoli per una feroce vendetta contro tutte le angherie subite in una vita disperata ed isolata da tutti.
Un King agli esordi, un po' di acerbo si legge tra le righe, ma è prevalente l'angoscia, la disperazione, più che il terrore puro, per tutto il libro viene creata un'aspettativa devastante ed angosciante, praticamente perfetto nelle descrizioni e nei risvolti psicologici dei teenager americani dell'inizio anni settanta, come sempre il “Re” si dimostra abilissimo nello scavare nell'animo del quotidiano, dove si annida il vero terrore.
Lo stile è particolare, non sempre in presa diretta, ma un “riportare” più fonti e modi di narrazione contemporaneamente, anche la resa dei pensieri dei personaggi con l'uso delle parentesi e senza punteggiatura aiutano a dipingere perfettamente l'atmosfera così come al confusione, il disordine, la velocità o lentezza degli eventi e dei ricordi.
Consigliato e non solo agli amanti di King, per loro invece è un giro di boa obbligato.
