Stephen King's First and Best Hit

Rating: 8/10 (29 July 1999)

Stephen King has had an outstanding writing career, and I'm sorry about his accident. His first novel, and my personal favorite was "Carrie". "Carrie" was an engaging, intriguing story, and I was on the edge of my seat literally just reading it. First of all, I would like to say that "Carrie" was an incredibly better book than movie. Still, I gave it a 9 out of 10. The book was like off the scale. 12 out of 10 or something. I loved how the book got to the ending. The movie was still scary, but they took away some of the story from the book. It would've been cool if they'd left some of the scenes alone. Oh well, it's all you can expect from a book made into a movie. I was totally afraid of Carrie's mom. What a freak! She was constantly worshiping God, but at the same time looked like the devil. The only Stephen King movie that came close to this, was "Pet Sematary", which was horrifying. Stephen King is a wonderful writer, and I thank God that his wife pulled his first story out of the trash can. Otherwise, we'd have no "Carrie". Once again, I give it 9 out of 10.