Timeless Carrie issues

[Denise Marsden]

Just re read Carrie, facinated by how yet again SKs timeless magic applies .Carrie first captivated me because I related to being bullied at school,I also had a religious fanatic for a grandfather who lived with us from my age 10 to 15 .He would quote the scriptures at me much of the time in a very victorian way.Thankfully I didn't nail him to the wall with kitchen knive though I was often tempted,my love for him got in the way.:love:

[fairy76]

Carrie was my 1st SK book. I was in the 7th grade! From then I read all I could get my hands on, and she is definitly a character I revisit at least once a year

[MrsMarsten]

a book i can read repeatedly and always find something i missed.

[Breger3]

I too love Carrie cause I can also relate to her.

When I first read it as a teenager I could totally identify with Carrie. I was picked on through out my childhood, many many times. (Although thankfully not to the extent Carrie was) I never had the best clothes, had a different home life, and I wanted to fit in desperatly. My grandma is pretty into her religion, but Margaret makes her look like a heathen...lol. I so wished to be friends with Carrie or to have her powers and the two of us could go around the world smitting bullies. LOL!

Now when I read it, I still identify with Carrie, and want to help her so much. BUT I can also feel a LITTLE bit of compassion for Margaret. The woman is off her rocker, don't get me wrong, she has MAJOR issues, but I truely feel that she wants the best for Carrie, that she's trying to protect her in her own strange way. Maybe I'm off on that, but as a mom of a girl who is overweight and has Autism I just want to sheild her from everything, so I'm wondering if that's what Margaret was trying to do.

I do think this is something every Freshman, or Middle Schooler should read, as a warning against bullying.

[ScarecrowJoe]

okay, you doods have convinced me. i'm gonna read it next. i found a copy at burpee's this weekend. just need to save up a little more cash to get it.

[pixiedaark]

I also identified with Carrie when I was a teenager. I was picked on and bullied when I was in junior high and high school.
This book also influenced me by making me not want to shower in public school. When I read about then saw the infamous shower scene, I decided I would quit school if they made us take showers in gym class! (Thankfully, my school did not do this.)

[MadamMack]

okay, you doods have convinced me. i'm gonna read it next. i found a copy at burpee's this weekend. just need to save up a little more cash to get it.

Good choice Joe! Burpee's has it all, huh?

[ScarecrowJoe]

i think the guy probably has nuclear weapons back there if you dig far enough. if he doesn't have it, it isn't worth buying, that's what he says.

[nikkij124]

I first watched the movie carrie years ago i thought it was the best horror i had ever seen i was wrong the book was ten times better:wow:
I was never really bullied at school. im the youngest child of four ive got three brothers two of them are twins who were 15 when i was born the other was 13 so my bullies lived in my home:mad2::mad2:
i would have loved the powers carrie had my brothers wouldnt have known what hit them lol:laugh:

[jules17330]

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

[ScarecrowJoe]

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

[Breger3]

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.

[Bluey Lunger]

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

[michal]

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]

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

[AnnekoMartian]

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"]

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]

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

[jules17330]

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.

[randallFlaggfan1]

Carrie is great, especially when one considers that it's King debut.

[constantreader1313]

I am reading the book right now for the first time. I have seen the movie 4 or 5 times so I am really really having a hard time not going by the movie as I'm reading it. It's hard to make the characters different in my head when I have faces from the movie already there. I am enjoying it though, I just wish I hadn't seen the movie so much before I actually read the book.