Carrie
August 10, 2007
"Carrie," by Stephen King
Signet Books 1994 paperback edition
What's the point of reviewing Stephen King? If you're going to read him, you're going to read him regardless of what any reviewer says. Some authors, for a time, achieve such widespread popularity that they move beyond the bounds of criticism. It just doesn't touch them. Still, there is enough variation in King's catalog that it's at least worthwhile to parse out where each book stands as part of the whole. The problem with "Carrie," King's first, is that it isn't really a novel so much as a beefed up novella. It's obvious from reading that the book came in too short to be published as a novel and subsequently was filled out by a series of fictional newspaper clippings, survivor accounts and other detritus that does nothing more than break the narrative flow. The novel has no momentum, though the central tale of childhood repression finding release in supernatural violence is engaging enough. Decent, but flawed.
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