My first (and last) Stephen King book. Don't know how this idiot is so popular. It made me appreciate George R. R. Martin and the A Song of Ice and Fire series because King attempts a similar switching of many POVs— academic journals, newspapers and memoirs as well as the different characters with their different thoughts— but you can hardly tell the writing style apart. The writing was plain and dull, no matter which voice was speaking.

This really becomes intolerable when the novel goes into retellings of the same event from multiple POVs. The writing style does not change, and hardly any new details or perspectives that would justify repeating plot points are there.

Oh and did you know the bad guy kills dogs btw? and the other bad guy is an evil fundamental Christian? Really boring literally Hitler characters that are unequivocally evil. And with the typical libtard smugness that king libtard has become known for.

The main character, Carrie, is a darling angel, though. She's innocent and pure and the victim of horrible bullying and abuse. Spoilers but she breaks down, and in a revenge porn fantasy, brutally kills all of the people who were nasty to her. He makes a very plain attempt at this point, though—when you're mean to people, they can become angry and be mean back to you. It's ripe for sentimentalism, but I don't think it's particularly interesting or profound.

I checked, and this was written in 1974, pre-Columbine, so the issue wasn't as messy. I doubt King would write or get away with this now, especially since school shootings are the domain of the white male. I do wonder if Adam Lanza deserves the same Grace as Carrie white? Food for thought, Mr King!

Also someone needs to @dulla about this— Stephen was predictive programming school shootings back in the 70s.

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