Carrie

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Stephen King: Carrie (AudiobookFormat, 2013, Random House Audio)

[sound recording] /, 450 pages

English language

Published Dec. 15, 2013 by Random House Audio.

ISBN:
978-0-385-39428-4
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OCLC Number:
812252214

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Carrie, teased by classmates and extremely limited and ridiculed by her mother, has a terrifying secret. When Carrie is pushed to the edge, she reveals her secret in a devastating finale.

Story of a shy high school girl who discovers she has telekinetic powers and takes revenge on her tormentors. The plot contains profanity, sexual situations, and violence.

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This is another one of those books that, being a Stephen King fan, I can’t believe I’d never read. Second book written, first one published, if I remember correctly (for what it’s worth, I don’t think Carrie was as good as [b:'Salem's Lot|11590|'Salem's Lot|Stephen King|https://i.gr-assets.com/images/S/compressed.photo.goodreads.com/books/1327891565l/11590.SY75.jpg|3048937]).

I saw the movie a really long time ago, in the 80s or maybe the early 90s. I can’t remember very much of it at all, but I’m almost certain it wasn’t as detailed, or as gruesome or heart-wrenching, as the book.

Carrie is the ultimate story of bullying gone wrong. My book, [b:Stingers|49404106|Stingers|Graham Downs|https://i.gr-assets.com/images/S/compressed.photo.goodreads.com/books/1576660938l/49404106.SY75.jpg|40865726], doesn’t even come close (prove me wrong: read both of them and tell me what you think!). The horrors that girl’s peers put her through... not to mention the isolation her mother put her through. To be a seventeen-year-old girl and not know what a period …

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Subjects

  • Psychokinesis
  • High school students
  • Teenage girls
  • Fiction