Is Carrie underrated?

[Jack Torrance]

Hmmm. I just assumed every King fan liked this book. It's not my favorite of his but I remember getting through it quickly and had no problems with it. I think the movie adaptation was much better but King even admits that. I can see why Tabby pulled it out of the bin. King probably gets famous even without this book but hey it got the snowball rolling good on his avalanche of popularity. So, I gotta give it up for the novel Carrie. Her mom sure is a...well...you know.

[Benita]

I have read all the SK books and I only read Carrie last week. I loved it! I think there is a lot to be said for someone who read all his other books first and still loved it!

[Sundrop]

I haven't read it yet, so I don't know if it's underrated. I've not been disappointed by a King book yet, though. I can't imagine not liking it.

[michal]

I don't like Carrie very much, which doesn't mean I didn't get some enjoyment out of reading it. It was a nice reading, but the characters lacked the depth and the better background later found in Mr. King's books.

I did has a sniff of King in it, but nowadays I can recognize the style of Mr King simply by reading a page, and it is not yet so set in Carrie.

[Taz]

I am certainly not ashamed that Carrie is one of my favourites, although far too short (I have a thing about short books I just read them too quickly but that is the only problem I have with it). I know this sounds odd, but I don't really like watching the film adaptations to SK's novels, I tend to get frustrated that a lot of the time, they don't get the characters right (in my head), anyway back to the point, I still feel that although this was his first published novel and may be a bit raw, the characters still came to life for me, I actually enjoyed the newspaper clippings, I like a book that jumps around, don't ask why, I just always have.

[Richard_B]

I have to say I'm not a big Carrie fan... I accept the points about it being Sai King's first (published) book and it deserves credit for the {shudder} idea that without it there would not be the rest of his works (hmm... discuss...) but when I read it i think it's more of an overlong short story than a novel.. which makes it weaker than most of his other works.

[HalloweenB*]

I have read all the SK books and I only read Carrie last week. I loved it! I think there is a lot to be said for someone who read all his other books first and still loved it!

OMG did u really read all of them? well i'm a fan of SK 2 but i think i'm your fan 2 (lol) 'cause u read them all! i'm thrilled! REALLY.

The first book of SK that i read was Carrie and I just love it. a great book and story but not such a great movie (in my opinion).

(sorry to have fled to the subject but I am new here and had to say something)

[Renzo]

I just finished this a few months back. I am still debating if I enjoyed Carrie or Salem's Lot more (the only two SK novels I have read thus far). I think both are very solid books but not necessarily amazing.

I would say that I enjoyed the characters of Salem's Lot more than Carrie but that is probably because Carrie's characters never had time to develop fully.

That closet would creep me out, though! Psycho mothers are creepy...

[Violet]

Hi, I'm new here.
Carrie was the first SK book I read. I've read everything he wrote
and I think it is one of his best. I think it is definitely underrated.
It is great being able to talk with other SK fans.

[JayneH]

I love Carrie and dont think it is underrated... It is one of the books that is synonymous with Stephen King - A lot of people I have met dont necessarily recognise his later works but as soon as you mention Carrie or The Shining a little light bulb goes off over their head. A book that can have that sort of impact on people cannot be underrated !