Reviews tagging 'Cursing'

Carrie by Stephen King

40 reviews

elioolive's review

dark sad tense medium-paced

• Plot- or character-driven? A mix
• Strong character development? It's complicated
• Loveable characters? Yes
• Diverse cast of characters? No
• Flaws of characters a main focus? Yes

4.0

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Fire/Fire injury, Emotional abuse, Bullying, Blood, Animal death, Mental illness, Grief, Death, Animal cruelty, Toxic relationship, Murder, and Body shaming

Moderate: Rape, Child death, Child abuse, and Sexual violence

Minor: Cursing

nnnightime's review against another edition

dark emotional sad tense medium-paced

• Plot- or character-driven? Character
• Strong character development? Yes
• Loveable characters? No
• Diverse cast of characters? No
• Flaws of characters a main focus? Yes

2.5

Not a bad book but not amazing either, I was interested enough to keep reading but there was definitely some excitement or something lacking.

All the characters, even Carrie were not likeable, I found Carrie to be kind of pathetic and only slightly less as the book went on. I guess Sue was okay, even though she's basically the reason all the shit went down. But I suppose that's what King is getting at, that people are awful and even good people can be awful, on purpose or not. The ending was both interesting and not, with the reveal of another girl being noted with telekinetic powers, but I'm not sure if it was supposed to leave the reader scared or with a sense of "oh no it could happen again!" Because I kinda don't really care, sure a lot of the town were bystanders but they all knew or had a pretty good idea that Carrie was being abused by her mother and/or bullied at school and did nothing to help her. So I find it difficult to feel sorry for most of them.

I thought it was interesting that we knew what was going to happen the whole time, jumping from past to the present and the future it was pretty well done and easy to follow. But I'm not sure if knowing what would happen took some of the mystery and excitement away.

I don't think I'll ever read it again and the only reason I'd recommend it to someone would be if they wanted to see how well King rights awful people, and because it's short. I'm genuinely interested I why some people rate this book 5 stars, other than the kind of person who just rates everything 4 or 5 stars, I can't really understand anyone finishing the book with any other response other than being mildly happy that you'd completed a book and everything ended the way the book told you it would at the beginning.

Ugh I sound super harsh, it wasn't a terrible book, I probably wouldn't have finished it if it was, but it just wasn't all that interesting either.

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Animal cruelty, Animal death, Murder, Rape, Sexual violence, Violence, Body horror, Body shaming, Bullying, and Religious bigotry

Moderate: Car accident, Cursing, Fatphobia, and Gore

Minor: Miscarriage

Probably just don't read this book if you're sensitive to anything.

aviery's review against another edition

dark emotional sad tense fast-paced

• Plot- or character-driven? Plot
• Strong character development? Yes
• Loveable characters? No
• Diverse cast of characters? No
• Flaws of characters a main focus? Yes

4.0

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Bullying, Blood, Child abuse, Death, Emotional abuse, Fire/Fire injury, Murder, and Religious bigotry

Moderate: Gore, Mental illness, Cursing, Death of parent, Injury/Injury detail, and Physical abuse

Minor: Violence, Sexual content, and Sexual harassment

fourslicesoftoast's review

dark tense slow-paced

• Plot- or character-driven? Character
• Strong character development? Yes
• Loveable characters? No
• Diverse cast of characters? No
• Flaws of characters a main focus? It's complicated

2.0

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Blood, Bullying, Child abuse, Confinement, and Death

Moderate: Abortion, Cursing, and Death of parent

Minor: Emotional abuse, Racial slurs, Fatphobia, and Sexual content

whilhelminaharker's review

dark sad fast-paced

• Plot- or character-driven? Plot
• Diverse cast of characters? No
• Flaws of characters a main focus? Yes

4.5

The woman that is not embraced by the status quo, will burn down Americana to feel its warmth. How long can you keep it repressed? There's more of us, and the revolution is coming.

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Blood, Religious bigotry, Fire/Fire injury, Child abuse, Cursing, Bullying, Car accident, and Violence

Moderate: Vomit, Death of parent, Racial slurs, Body shaming, and Child death

planetshelf's review against another edition

challenging dark emotional reflective sad tense medium-paced

• Plot- or character-driven? A mix
• Strong character development? Yes
• Loveable characters? It's complicated
• Diverse cast of characters? No
• Flaws of characters a main focus? Yes

4.0

This writing layout is strange and dense, and I can't decide whether I like it.

I’m always upset when I think about Carrie. Her experience on this planet was so fucked.

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Forced institutionalization, Mental illness, Murder, Physical abuse, Religious bigotry, Schizophrenia/Psychosis , Toxic relationship, Violence, Injury/Injury detail, Bullying, Confinement, Death, Fire/Fire injury, Genocide, Gore, Child death, Emotional abuse, Blood, and Child abuse

Moderate: Death of parent, Gaslighting, Pregnancy, Car accident, Cursing, Domestic abuse, Sexual content, and Sexual violence

Minor: Rape, Alcohol, Body shaming, Miscarriage, Misogyny, Suicidal thoughts, and Racial slurs

celevstial's review

challenging dark emotional tense medium-paced

• Plot- or character-driven? Character
• Strong character development? It's complicated
• Loveable characters? No
• Diverse cast of characters? No
• Flaws of characters a main focus? Yes

2.0

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Blood, Child abuse, Death, Domestic abuse, Fire/Fire injury, Cursing, Emotional abuse, Murder, and Violence

caitlink's review

• Plot- or character-driven? Character
• Strong character development? It's complicated

3.25

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Bullying

Moderate: Sexual content, Physical abuse, Murder, and Emotional abuse

Minor: Cursing and Blood

josie24601's review

dark sad tense medium-paced

• Strong character development? Yes
• Loveable characters? No
• Diverse cast of characters? No
• Flaws of characters a main focus? Yes

3.5

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Blood, Body horror, Body shaming, Bullying, Child abuse, Cursing, Domestic abuse, Emotional abuse, Fire/Fire injury, Gore, Murder, Physical abuse, Religious bigotry, and Violence

Minor: Antisemitism

jenna_justi2004's review

adventurous challenging dark emotional sad tense fast-paced

• Plot- or character-driven? Character
• Strong character development? It's complicated
• Loveable characters? No
• Diverse cast of characters? No
• Flaws of characters a main focus? Yes

3.0

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Abandonment, Blood, Body horror, Body shaming, Bullying, Car accident, Child abuse, Child death, Chronic illness, Confinement, Cursing, Death, Death of parent, Emotional abuse, Fatphobia, Fire/Fire injury, Gaslighting, Genocide, Gore, Grief, Mental illness, Miscarriage, Murder, Pregnancy, Racial slurs, Rape, Religious bigotry, Schizophrenia/Psychosis , Sexism, Sexual content, Suicidal thoughts, Torture, Toxic friendship, Violence, Vomit, and War