Timeless Carrie issues

**ScarecrowJoe** · September 29th, 2009

it's not a chain -- it's named for the guy who runs it. romeo burpee. funny guy. looks a little like elvis.

**Breger3** · September 29th, 2009

Originally Posted by jules17330

Burpee's? I really need to get out of my cage more often...we don't have those in Ohio.

We don't have them in Michigan either, sound like a cool place though.

**wally wonder** · September 29th, 2009

isn't burpee's the place you buy seeds? i was bullied at school...but, all those people are dead.

ka.

**michal** · September 30th, 2009

I agree and I think that it applies to many of Mr. King's books - the way they remain relevant and even change their meaning for you when you reread them years later. I believe that's because he is dealing with human ideas, emotions and motives and those - like it or not, are pretty much a constant.

**dtorrec** · October 2nd, 2009

I just started carrie yesterday, amazing, I can't stop reading!

**AnnekoMartian** · October 7th, 2009

4th-8th grade, if you asked me what my favourite book was, my answer would have been Carrie.

To be fair, in fourth grade, I had not yet read Carrie (or even seen the film), I was still working my way up to 'grown up horror'*, and still quite a bit squeamish. But I grew up in what I affectionately refer to as 'The Vampire House', with people all-too-easily dubbed 'The Addams Family', and was thereby blessed with a basic understanding of the plots of anything scary.

I could not envision a happier ending. I mean, not in real life. All too often, the idea of developing killer telekinetic powers seemed to my childhood self far more realistic than the idea of blossoming from an ugly duckling into a beautiful swan.

(I was not diagnosed with Asperger's Syndrome until I was in college and already knew some people who liked me for my crazy self. I am still not a beautiful swan-- maybe an overweight and somewhat pimply swan-- but I also haven't killed anyone with my brain, so all in all perhaps I'm breaking even.)

Constantly Reading,
Anneko Martian

**Ryan "The Reader"** · October 14th, 2009

To this day, Carrie, has been the SK book that I have read the most amount of times. It has the most emotional resonance to me, as I feel like I was Carrie in middle school. I think if I had her powers, some kids at my school would have been fried.

**ScarecrowJoe** · October 14th, 2009

just finished this last night. fantabulous book. makes me want to stay in middle school forever, tho!!

**ginapenn** · October 14th, 2009

Scarecrowjoe: I can't say I blame you there. So happy to hear that you like the book! You make me want to re-read it. It's been a while since I've been been engrossed in that one.