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Carrie by Stephen King

81 reviews

kaylee1957's review against another edition

dark mysterious tense medium-paced

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

4.0

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Blood, Body horror, and Bullying

Moderate: Animal cruelty, Animal death, Blood, Body horror, Body shaming, Bullying, Child abuse, Child death, Death of parent, Emotional abuse, Fire/Fire injury, Gaslighting, Murder, Pregnancy, Racism, Sexual assault, and Violence

violet_pages's review against another edition

dark sad slow-paced

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

2.25

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Animal death, Blood, Body shaming, Bullying, Child abuse, Death, Emotional abuse, Gore, Misogyny, Physical abuse, Religious bigotry, Violence, and Murder

Moderate: Confinement, Cursing, Fatphobia, Racial slurs, Racism, Sexual assault, Sexual content, and Toxic relationship

Minor: Drug use and Miscarriage

minapaige's review against another edition

dark tense medium-paced

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

4.0

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Child abuse, Emotional abuse, Toxic relationship, Violence, Blood, Bullying, and Death

Moderate: Animal cruelty, Animal death, Body shaming, Sexual content, Sexism, Mass/school shootings, Fatphobia, and Confinement

Minor: Cursing, Drug use, Miscarriage, Racial slurs, Rape, and Antisemitism

arqueervist's review against another edition

dark emotional reflective sad tense fast-paced

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

4.5

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Blood, Child death, Child abuse, Death, Death of parent, Domestic abuse, Emotional abuse, Murder, Physical abuse, Racism, Racial slurs, and Violence

Moderate: Rape and Sexual assault

Minor: Animal death and Sexual content

itsmeyseniab's review against another edition

dark slow-paced

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

3.0

This was my first Stephen King novel, and I think it was a good introduction for me. MAN was this book unsettling. I enjoyed it, but at times I felt the pacing to be a little bit slow (specifically in the middle of the novel). I liked how we were told the story from multiple character perspectives and through several different “books” / mediums. I’m eager to pick up more of his work!

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Content Warnings

Moderate: Bullying, Animal death, Physical abuse, and Violence

lucimolri's review against another edition

dark emotional mysterious sad tense medium-paced

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

4.25

Chupito cada vez que se diga "bultos cochinos". Es lo primero que leo de Stephen King y la verdad es que me ha gustado mucho, no se me ha hecho nada denso. Lo único que me incomoda, son las descripciones de los personajes femeninos, ya que las sexualiza mucho (y son menores, por lo que incómodo x1000).

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Animal cruelty, Animal death, Blood, Body shaming, Bullying, Child death, Death, Death of parent, Domestic abuse, Emotional abuse, Mass/school shootings, Misogyny, Physical abuse, Sexism, Toxic relationship, and Violence

viljesvag's review against another edition

dark tense fast-paced

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

3.5

Not King’s finest work, but a lot better than I expected! King has his uuh... mannerisms (you know, Guy Writing), so this being his first novel, where the premise is a teen girl discovering her latent telekinesis after she gets her first period...... you know? 

I really wish the formatting was better, though. I don’t think there is a single published version of this book (I looked at both digital and printed copies) where the intermingled excerpts from in-universe books/newspapers/etc are easily discernible from the "normal" narrative parts.

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Religious bigotry, Bullying, and Animal death

Moderate: Sexual assault

icfasntw's review against another edition

dark tense medium-paced

• Diverse cast of characters? No

4.0

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Content Warnings

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

Moderate: Toxic relationship, Body shaming, Confinement, Cursing, Sexual content, and Religious bigotry

Minor: Animal cruelty and Animal death

writtenontheflyleaves's review against another edition

dark sad tense medium-paced

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

3.75

 “First came the blood. Then came the power.”
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Going for a spookier vibe for the pic today in honour of my first Stephen King read! Carrie totally surprised me and was a great way to kick off my October reading.
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👑 The plot: Carrie White has always been an outcast. Born to a fanatical Christian mother, she is victimised throughout her life both at home and at school, until a traumatic event in a senior year gym class changes everything. The torment she receives at the hands of her classmates - and the repercussions it has for them - sets in motion a chain of events that ends in bloody disaster as Carrie discovers the latent supernatural power that has been brewing inside of her for years.
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Not having lived under a rock my whole life, I was familiar going in with the general concept of “Carrie”. At least, I knew there was a prom night and lots of blood. I thought knowing this would dull my reading experience, but I was pleasantly surprised to find it didn’t at all!
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Carrie is told through a mixture of found documents (interviews, book excerpts, newspaper reports) and more straightforward storytelling as King pieces together the events leading up to Prom Night, the infamous event when Carrie’s powers are unleashed. The novel makes clear almost from the outset that something terrible is going to happen, and that its goal is to bring this terror slowly into focus. This was great news for me, because it meant that my imprecise knowledge of the story not only matched but enhanced the storytelling style.
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I was definitely gripped by this book, but if you’re looking for something scary I’m not sure this is it. “Carrie” left me feeling more melancholy than anything else - sad at how realistically cruel Carrie White’s tormentors were, how inescapable humiliation feels when you’re a teenager.
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🔥 Read it if you like the storytelling style of The Handmaid’s Tale, and stories that unpick the ugly and cruel aspects of humanity. Or if you super hate teenagers because they do not get a good rap in this one!!
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🚫 Avoid it if you don’t like blood or violence, or if you think that reading about bullying would seriously depress you. Ngl lads it gets bleak af. 

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Gore, Animal death, Violence, Emotional abuse, Blood, Child abuse, Mental illness, Physical abuse, Religious bigotry, and Death

megj23's review against another edition

• Loveable characters? No
• Diverse cast of characters? No

2.0

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Animal death, Blood, Child abuse, Death, Cursing, Fatphobia, and Murder

Minor: Racial slurs