📖 Carrie

We all know Stephen King as the "King of Horror" from his books The Shining and It, but all great authors have to start somewhere. Carrie was Stephen King's debut novel, but it still resonates with readers to this day. Carrie White was never a normal child. From the age of three, strange things started to go on around her. Rocks would fall from the sky and screws would come loose without anyone touching them. When Carrie was sixteen, after a particularly tough gym class, she had her first period. At that point, her dad had been long dead and her mom never explained what menstruation was to her, believing that it was a sign of having committed a great sin. Carrie was always bullied at school for her weight, her clothes, and the religious beliefs her mother had implanted onto her. When she had her first period, there was no exception. That day after school, in frustration, she pushes a kid off of a bicycle with her mind, and starts to piece the pieces together. It was that day she realized she had telekinesis powers. That day, she questions her mom for never explaining what menstruation was, but her mom refuses to explain, but instead locks Carrie in a closet for having sinned. While the girls that bullied Carrie were given detention, they were spiteful of her even more, and decided to pull a prank to humiliate her in front of the whole school during prom night. What could go wrong? It's not like the whole city would get set on fire, right? I heavily recommend this book because it's an amazing start to an amazing career, especially since it was almost discarded. The characters all have their own (and very unique) personalities, and it all ties together perfectly with a climactic ending. This book has been adapted into multiple movies and a broadway musical.

我们都知道史蒂芬·金因《闪灵》和《它》而被称为"恐怖之王",但所有伟大的作家都有一个起点。《魔女嘉莉》(Carrie)是史蒂芬·金的处女作,但直到今天,它依然能引起读者的共鸣。 嘉莉·怀特从来不是一个普通的孩子。从三岁起,她周围就开始发生奇怪的事情:石头会从天而降、螺丝会在无人触碰的情况下自行松动。当嘉莉十六岁时,在一次格外艰难的体育课后,她来了第一次月经。那时她的父亲早已过世,而她的母亲认为月经是犯下大罪的迹象,从未向她解释过什么是月经。嘉莉在学校里总因为她的体重、衣着,以及她母亲灌输给她的宗教信仰而被欺负,而在她第一次来月经时,这些欺负当然也没有例外。 放学那天,她满心挫败,用意念把一个骑自行车的孩子推倒,这让她开始把一些线索拼凑起来。就在那一天,她意识到自己拥有心灵致动(念力)能力。那一天,她质问母亲为什么从未解释月经的事,但母亲拒绝解释,反而把她锁进壁橱里,认为她犯了罪。虽然那些欺负嘉莉的女孩被罚留校察看,但她们对嘉莉更加怨恨,并决定在毕业舞会上搞一个恶作剧,当众羞辱她。能出什么差错呢?又不会真的把整座城市都烧掉,对吧? 我强烈推荐这本书,因为它不仅是一个惊人职业生涯的惊艳开端,而且它当初差点被丢弃。书中的人物各自拥有鲜明而独特的性格,而所有支线都紧密融合,最终汇聚成一个高潮迭起的结局。这本书后来被改编成多部电影以及一部百老汇音乐剧。