Carrie
Why readCarrie? Stephen King himself has said that he finds his  early work "raw," and Brian De Palma's movie was so successful that we feel as  if we have read the novel even if we never have. The simple answer is that this  is a very scary story, one that works as well, if not better, on the page as it  does on the screen. Carrie White, bullied by cruel teenagers at school and her  religious nut of a mother at home, gradually discovers that she has telekinetic  powers, powers that will eventually be turned on her tormentors. King has a way  of getting under the skin of his readers by creating an utterly believable world  that throbs with menace before finally exploding. He builds the tension in this  early work by piecing together extracts from newspaper reports, journals, and  scientific papers, as well as more traditional first- and third-person narrative  in order to reveal what lurks beneath the surface of Chamberlain, Maine.News item from the Westover (ME) weekly Enterprise, August 19,     1966: "Rain of Stones Reported: It was reliably reported by several persons that  a rain of stones fell from a clear blue sky on Carlin Street in the town of  Chamberlain on August 17th."Although the supernatural pyrotechnics are handled with King's customary aplomb,  it is the carefully drawn portrait of the little horrors of small towns, high  schools, and adolescent sexuality that give this novel its power and assures its  place in the King canon.--Simon Leake--This text refers to an out of print or unavailable edition of this title.