A review by the_gandy_man
Carrie by Stephen King

3.75

One of King's weakest books I've read, but I still thoroughly enjoyed it. Being already familiar with the musical, I was worried knowing the ending would lessen my enjoyment, but luckily this was not the case. Through in-universe news article and book excerpts, King tells the story from the perspective of afterwards in addition to as it happens. It didn't matter that I knew shit was gonna go down at prom because King told me beforehand anyway. And then the shit that went down was notably different from the musical. The book has moments where King flexes his incredibly horror writing, but it's not as pervasive as some of his other works. What is pervasive are his "King-isms". There's lots of problematic stuff that in my opinion doesn't need to be in the book. Characters are casually racist because ya they probably would be. But it lessens my enjoyment of the book.