Does anyone think "Carrie" is a sad story?

**Stan_Richards_of_Windsor** · January 17th, 2012

I actually get quite annoyed when people refer to Sai King as "Master of Horror" or a horror writer. It plants judgments in peoples minds even before they start reading. My grampa refused to read any of Kings works cause "he doesn't read all that horror ****". Stephen King writes about a lot of tragic and equally frightful things, but my personal opinion of what horror is worse.

**GNTLGNT** · January 17th, 2012

...to follow up my post from many moons back-hells yeah, it's sad! There's little, more tragic than the destruction of a human beings psyche....

**Dave Sartin** · January 26th, 2012

I find it a Tragic novel with Horror traits.

**Haunted** · January 26th, 2012

Carrie is a sad, sad young woman with a power she does not acknowledge fully thus she cannot control it. Her mother is a another sad case and of no help to poor Carrie. The kids who plot to humilate Carrie are pathetic trash blown up by their own self-importance and got what they deserved when Carrie finally figures them out. High school is not a wonderful time for everyone.

**blunthead** · January 26th, 2012

...I have always thought that "Carrie" is just a sad story. I do not see it as horror. In fact, I see a lot of sadness in a lot of Stephen King's works. However, "Carrie" in particular is very sad for me...and I feel [Carrie] hates herself at times. I believe that all Carrie wanted was to be wanted...Her life started and ended bad. So, does anyone else here see "Carrie" as being sad? Or is it just me?

Originally Posted by JohnDalglish

Hi,

Aye, I agree, so it's not just you.

And actually I find much of Sai King's canon not really 'horror'.

Long days and pleasant nights

Me2. I think Carrie is a brilliant story, so a good one for sK to start the world with, and that it's exceptionally sad. I mean, what can be sadder for a human being than to be abused/neglected and rejected by society? The saddest part is it happens all the time! It's happening now, as we (so-to-) speak! Parents, who should never be in the first damn place, imho, are intentionally and/or ignorantly doing unimaginably hideous things to their own children.

I know some people won't read a Stephen King book because they know it's, ironically, about reality, and they can't handle the truth. Bless their pea-pickin' hearts, but let them say honest.

Carrie indeed hated herself. Hate was all she knew.

**Lizy** · January 26th, 2012

Carrie was a sad story but I thought that it was brutal she killed everybody with the Black Prom thing.

**GNTLGNT** · January 26th, 2012

Originally Posted by Lizy

Carrie was a sad story but I thought that it was brutal she killed everybody with the Black Prom thing.

...."Hell hath no fury....."

**blunthead** · January 26th, 2012

Originally Posted by Lizy

Carrie was a sad story but I thought that it was brutal she killed everybody with the Black Prom thing.

I don't have a problem with the idea of an innocent teenager destroying evil teenagers. As far as the arts are concerned that's what teenagers are for. I mean the justice part, without which they're just insufferable, obnoxious, eternally cruel teenage dumb Wikipedia reference-link

Asinuses. I love justice, even when it's leveled upon me.

**Lizy** · January 26th, 2012

This is true, but doesn't she kill some innocent bystanders too?

**Hicks** · 2 Weeks Ago

When Stephen wrote Carrie, he had already written a few novels he didn't have luck selling. Maybe some of that rejection found its way into Carrie, too?