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Carrie by Stephen King

70 reviews

miriam_mal's review against another edition

dark tense fast-paced

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

2.5

Kind of weird to rate this because here’s the thing: I hate horror and gore but I really wanted to read a Stephen king novel to know what the hype was about. He’s such a popular and successful author. I didn’t intend originally for this to be my first choice until I saw a post online commenting on how Carrie is “one of the most human girls” and it was available on my library app so I checked it out immediately. It was a real page turner and I think King’s writing is pretty tight. Read it in 2 days. The earlier parts about carrie’s mother’s religious fanaticism were like a car wreck I couldn’t look away from. I think this may live in my head for a bit. So by all accounts in terms of its construction I should probably be giving this book a higher rating. It’s just such nasty content in the second half that I don’t want to - which again, I knew I’d feel that way going in.  
I probably will read other stephen king books but I’ll check out which ones are less horror/gore oriented. We’ll see. 

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Bullying, Emotional abuse, Fire/Fire injury, Child abuse, Animal death, Religious bigotry, and Domestic abuse

roseisvibing's review

adventurous dark mysterious fast-paced

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

3.5

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Torture, Toxic relationship, Bullying, Death, Domestic abuse, Emotional abuse, Child abuse, Religious bigotry, and Sexual assault

Moderate: Fire/Fire injury, Mental illness, Sexual assault, Sexual violence, and Drug use

Minor: Miscarriage and Antisemitism

nathegz's review against another edition

dark mysterious sad tense medium-paced

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

4.5

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Death, Fire/Fire injury, Body shaming, Bullying, Child abuse, Domestic abuse, Misogyny, Murder, Toxic friendship, Religious bigotry, and Adult/minor relationship

Moderate: Car accident

snackykennedy's review

dark emotional mysterious sad tense fast-paced

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

5.0

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Child abuse and Sexism

Moderate: Death of parent and Domestic abuse

thestorydoer's review

dark tense slow-paced

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

3.0

As this was Stephen King's debut, I must say I believe that it is overhyped.

The book is fantastic in it's tension, as per King's trademark style. It also provides an interestinf emotional journey from cathartic to ultimately disturbing which was quite the evolution.

It is also quite good in it's exposition. I usually find Kings exposition rather monotonous but this time, it was quite enjoyable to read thanks to the interesting creative decision to include research and journalistic articles dispersed within the main narrative.

However, this creative decision is stuck to religiously, may it be to the books benefit or it's detriment. When it benefits, it's interesting and has quite good foreshadowing (even if it were a little on the nose). When it doesnt though, it's quite unfortunate. This is because it often repeats climactic events twice, from different perspectives yes, but to repeat twice over became a little monotonous. I would've hoped that perhaps the separate perspectives were broken up in between Carries perspective, as opposed to full narratives played through twice. This ften took away from the climactic sequences.

Disturbing, tense, and interesting, if not a little too religious in it's creative delivery. Pun not intended. 3/5

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Domestic abuse, Rape, Bullying, and Blood

leanneymu's review against another edition

challenging dark tense fast-paced

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

4.5

Incredibly compelling story - I read it in two days! King does a good job of getting in the minds of teenage girls, and the horror is palpable. I could do without the outdated 1970s attitudes though, which does really jar with modern sensibilities. 

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Murder, Death, Domestic abuse, and Violence

Moderate: Racial slurs

danimacuk's review against another edition

dark 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

4.5

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Bullying, Religious bigotry, Car accident, Child abuse, Death, Fire/Fire injury, Violence, Confinement, Toxic relationship, Death of parent, Domestic abuse, Emotional abuse, Mental illness, and Physical abuse

catsy2022's review against another edition

dark emotional sad tense fast-paced

• Plot- or character-driven? A mix
• 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: Child abuse, Blood, Domestic abuse, Emotional abuse, Sexism, Death, Child death, Sexual assault, Gore, Sexual content, Sexual harassment, Religious bigotry, and Sexual violence

Moderate: Animal cruelty and Animal death

remuslibrary's review against another edition

dark emotional sad tense medium-paced

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

3.75

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Animal death, Domestic abuse, Child abuse, Injury/Injury detail, Physical abuse, Fire/Fire injury, Bullying, Death, Emotional abuse, Religious bigotry, Violence, Blood, Death of parent, Gore, and Murder

Moderate: Fatphobia and Body shaming

Minor: Racial slurs, Sexual content, Antisemitism, Racism, Miscarriage, and Rape

orlabutler's review against another edition

dark slow-paced

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

2.5

Maybe I would have enjoyed this book more if I wasn't already familiar with the story from the film but it wasn't really engaging. Also I hate the lack of chapters, this is a pet peeve of mine but in particular for this book it made it feel like it would never end.

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Emotional abuse, Child abuse, Domestic abuse, Animal death, Blood, Physical abuse, Animal cruelty, and Rape