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Who is reading along this month? I will be reading of course... I have to finish this book I am reading now and then I am onto Carrie.....

Hooray! Angie finally gets to read her book. I am certainly reading with you. It's super short, so I don't think I'll even wait to finish my other book. I hope this is our biggest discussion yet:)

I will be here for the discussion... considering that I signed up for Twatster already! ;)

I am steering clear of the twitter thing. I am horrid at any of that new-fangled stuff. (I'm not 100, just feel it sometimes:)

I'll be reading Carrie...been years since I have....as far as Twitter, I doubt it...

i'll be reading carrie

I'll be reading carrie and hope to participate in the discussions on here--not part of twitter so I won't be there.

I'll be reading it - got out my copy (with foreword by Tabitha King!) late last night. Will be starting it this evening.

BTW, for those Twittering, have we come to a consensus on the hashtag? I was just going to post with #GRCarrie unless someone else has a better suggestion. Yay!

Count me in! Twitter what? I think I better pass on that one for now ... I feel like such a Luddite!

I won't be reading but i'll follow the discussion here. Twitter scares me!

I like your idea Ben... it seems to have taken off!

The pic is up! It was crazy making it. Freezing out... not as easy as it seems... the blood didn't go where we wanted.... but still fun and different!

Thanks, Angie. I'm looking forward to seeing how it turns out as the book goes on.

The pic you took looks fantastic. I love the expression on your face...you did a great job with the project. It was worth the wait to see it!

Angie-I bow down to your committment and greatness!!!! All hail the Super Mod:)

I have to agree: Angie you pic for this month is awesome!

Thanks!
Has anyone seen the new movie Carrie? I have it on my TIVO to watch after I read the book!

I didn't watch the whole thing because the girl playing Carrie just WASN'T Carrie for me. Sissy Spacek was perfect, so I just couldn't buy the new girl.

I'm reading it :)

Especially if you have dirty pillows!

i seen the movie before i read the book the movie is ok

The remake is ok (I've already talked about it somewhere else on here).I remember watching the original on a family vacation when I was in high school and saying it was as scary as a good episode of the X-files. The end made me jump though. and I was sharing a bed with my mother (big group, not enough single beds) who thought it was funny to make references to "dirty pillows" while I was trying to sleep.

I think Rachel is right, we have discussed this, but that end sequence, filmed with Amy Irving walking backard, but shown forward, or however you phrase it was so incredibly creepy!!! That is a movie image that will stick with me. I tend to like the movies based on his books based in reality, but this one was terrfic. (the original)

Starting to read Carrie today! I've seen and own the original version of the movie. I haven't seen the remake--is it available to rent or was it on TV and I missed it?

I am not going to read this thread anymore till I am through with the book... so there are no spoilers for me!

A musical? WTH???? Those two just do not seem to go together-Music and spontaneous dance numbers, coupled with budding telekenetic outcast. Umm.... anyone else not get it?

I've never heard of the carrie musical nor can I even imagine it being done or it being good--sounds crazy to me!

I can't imagine it being very good either. Man eating plants and cannibal barbers, sure great ideas for a show but telekinetic mayhem? Misery was also a Broadway show although without the singing (thankfully) and King's also working with John Mellencamp on another musical called Ghost Brothers Of Darkland County.

I can see Misery working great as a play. It takes place, basically in one room. There are two characters, (they could slip flashbacks) but not a Carrie Musical.

Silly when you think that I LOVED Sweeney Todd and Little Shop of Horrors!

I will be glancing at Carrie again though I just read it in January so I won't fully reread but I'll look back to see if there is anything worth hilighting.

To be honest the book made me very introspective, on my first read I read it in the span of one weekend. I slowed down a lit because I kept stopping to think about various things. I'm not sure if it's just my need to overanalyze. But I saw a lot more in the book than just the surface story.

Mary-Ann wrote: "But I saw a lot more in the book than just the surface story."

I'm really interested to hear all about that Mary-Ann

OK so I am about 100 pages in and really think this book kicked off with a bang. Straight into Carrie at high school. I love the little back stories from books/newspapers showing us the investigation into the "White incident". I love how it makes you really want to know what happens at the end of the book. WHo hasn't known a religious fanatic (and if you are one... well I am sorry). I worked with this guy once who was WAY into it! Anyways.... Here is another King book without chapters. It drives me nuts. I like chapter numbers because it kinda gives me a stopping point.

I hate books without chapters too! I'll tell you though, Carrie didn't bug me as much about that, since you could stop where the "reports" start and then pick up from there, but with Cujo it really annoyed me.

Yea... and I noticed a lot of times too an author will have chapters but not put in a table of contents anymore. Are they uncool?

I don't mind the missing table of contents... I never really look at them anyway if it's a novel. I only want a table of contents in books that allow for skipping around - short stories or anthologies, that sort of thing.

I stopped reading the tables of contents after Harry Potter and the Half-Blood Prince... the titles for Chapters 29 and 30 were spoilers ;-)

Angie,

Same here, I didn't look to see , I never look at table of contents. I just started reading on a friday night my intention was to read afew chapters, next thing I knew I was on page 50 or something scratching my brain, I did a quick flip-through and realized there were no chapters and went to sleep because it was super late. :)

Yeah, I know what you mean Stacie, I hate that!

I just finished the re-read. I love it!!

Angie wrote: "OK so I am about 100 pages in and really think this book kicked off with a bang. Straight into Carrie at high school. I love the little back stories from books/newspapers showing us the investiga..."

I thought it was interesting comparing the "news feeds" in Carrie with ones from more recent books because that was the only place where there was an obvious technical improvement. It's hard to believe that Carrie is a first novel!

Stacie wrote: I thought it was interesting comparing the "news feeds" in Carrie with ones from more recent books because that was the only place where there was an obvious technical improvement. It's hard to believe that Carrie is a first novel!


He actually wrote three novels before Carrie; Rage, The Long Walk, and The Running Man.

I'm about 3/4 of the way done with the book--didn't get much reading time this weekend...

This is the first time I am reading Carrie and I'm enjoying it a lot--I really liek to read the news clippings/reports that are scattered throughout the story--it gives you a different perspective almost like and insiders look into the characters. I know some people complained about this but to me its very interesting to read.

OK so I finished the book and LOVED ir. It is now one of my favorite books of King's. I love that it was a fast action packed read.
I do feel bad for Carrie. Everyone in high school usually wants to be popular or in the "in crowd". And to have to take a shower with your peers! It is like when they would do scoliosis (sp) exams and you would have to go in the locker room and stand there in your bra with everyone.
I don't know what Green Stamps are though. Carrie kept mentioning that she bought things with Green Stamps.
And what happened to Rob? He deleted himself! WHAT???

Lizzy wrote: "He actually wrote three novels before Carrie; Rage, The Long Walk, and The Running Man. "

You're right. I should have been more clear (that's what I get for posting when brain-fried I guess)... Carrie was his first published novel and, so I assume, the one he finished working on/revising first. I rather suspect that he did some tweaking and polishing of the other three before they were finally published in the late 70's and early 80's- although, really, can any of his books be said to be 'finished' when he has been known to add, subtract or otherwise alter books for future printings? I love that he does that, by the way. It's really neat to look at the different versions side-by-side and see the evolution of both the story and the writer. But then again, I'm a geek, and I digress :)

I really like Carrie and it holds up to the passage of time well. I don't want to say anything too detailed as I know that some people are reading this for the first time. Don't want to spoil anything.

Rob deleted himself?? What??

Okay, showing my age here-When you shopped at certain grocery stores in the 50's, 60's and 70's, they gave you a green stamp for every dollar you spent, with certain "specials" being worth extra stamps. You licked the back and kept them in books. There were catalogs where merchandise was offerred for green stamps. I think a book was 1000 and a radio might have been 6000 stamps.

What's this about Rob????!!!!!!!!

I just checked and he's not my friend anymore, either. :(
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I know... I'm sad that he's gone! :(
He's still on my twitter, so I asked him what's up there... Maybe it's a computer problem.

So I don't remember reading this... was Sun Snell pregnant afterall? And I didn't really get the last page where teh book was talking about that baby who had TK. Related to Carrie somehow? Or was it another case?

I hit Rob up on twitter... he must come back!

Kandice wrote: "I just checked and he's not my friend anymore, either. :(
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Mine either...what happened?!?

Angie wrote: "So I don't remember reading this... was Sun Snell pregnant afterall? And I didn't really get the last page where teh book was talking about that baby who had TK. Related to Carrie somehow? Or wa..."


I finished reading this book last night and really enjoyed it and seirprised as how much of a quick read it really was.

I don't think sun snell was pregnant at the end--she was bleeding after she saw carrie--so maybe she miscarried? but I could be wrong.

As for the last page I was confused as well--it almost seemed like it was related back to carrie or sue snell--since they talked about past relatives that experienced the same things...