Essential reading for teens.

**Denise Marsden** · September 18th, 2009

Listening to my nine year old grand daughter talk about the developing relationships with girls at school, and being pretty anxious about the way things seem to be going with this generation of kids, maybe schools should consider making Carrie compulsary reading in High School. It covers the bullying thing but also warns of the dangerous side of fundimental approaches to religion when they become fanatical or ridgid. Just a thought !:

**yankeesboi87** · October 18th, 2009

I think that would be a pretty good idea. It would be good, and students would get something out of it.

**Lencho_of_the_Apes** · October 19th, 2009

Don't ya think that his criticism of (certain aspects of) religion is one of the things that gets him banned wherever intolerant rigid people have control over young peoples' reading? Not saying I disagree with you, mind ye...

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**CrazyAbe** · January 21st, 2010

Ji to everybody

is one of my favorite SK books also the movie is cool
i like very much the final part

**CrazyAbe** · January 21st, 2010

Is a good book

one of my favorite

**K4driver** · February 1st, 2010

I tried to say this to other people before, but they said "no, we don't want to offend anyone" What is offending about that? it was based from 2 suicides that stephen King knew the girls.

**Breger3** · July 21st, 2010

I agree! I would love to just shove copies of this book into girls hands when they hit middle school (actually, starting in elementary school unfortunately) and say, "Think about this book anytime you start to tease someone else." But I think that there would be parents for sure that would have issues with it being required reading, so I don't think it will ever happen.

**sarar** · July 22nd, 2010

I think it would be a brilliant idea!
it covers important issues, with an alternative twist!
Even if it isn't a compulsory read, all teenagers read it for it's sheer brilliance

**Petrollika** · August 9th, 2010

Totally agree! This was the first SK novel I ever read so it was at least 3 years ago and I'm 16 now

I felt so sorry for Carrie at the end that I cried at a book for the first time, and I know a couple of people who are a little like Chris... but I'm pretty sure they aren't quite as extreme as she was. I don't know what he was thinking when he threw it away, Stephen King wrote this book beautifully