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We all know how it ends, even those of us who haven't seen the movie. But that's all right, because we were meant to. Told partly in epistolary form through excerpts of articles and books written after prom night, "Carrie" is the conglomerate epitaph of the ultimate adolescent outsider.
As King's first novel, it's not his best, nor my favorite of his, but that has entirely to do with strength of his later work (my current read, The Dark Tower series, is mind-blowing) and nothing to do with Carrie itself. Quite the contrary, Carrie already displays the sharp prose, vivid characters, and keen (sometimes uncomfortably so) insight into the human psyche that have since made King a master of horror and suspense.
As King's first novel, it's not his best, nor my favorite of his, but that has entirely to do with strength of his later work (my current read, The Dark Tower series, is mind-blowing) and nothing to do with Carrie itself. Quite the contrary, Carrie already displays the sharp prose, vivid characters, and keen (sometimes uncomfortably so) insight into the human psyche that have since made King a master of horror and suspense.
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