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Aaron
11-10-2008, 11:32 AM
http://www.thedarktower.org/gallery/data/510/medium/Carrie_face.jpg Carrie
Doubleday, 1974


Bracket #1

Voting for this Book is Closed
Final Average Score:
3.690909091

mae
11-10-2008, 01:07 PM
It's interesting how even the vote on this one is.

Matt
11-10-2008, 01:13 PM
I put in that it was "good". I've read it several times, and basically have that impression of it.

jhanic
11-10-2008, 05:03 PM
I voted good. I liked the way King wove the outside sources into the story.

John

The Lady of Shadows
11-10-2008, 05:13 PM
i voted average for this one. i don't know what it was about it but it just didn't do anything for me. it was kind of like munching my way through a bag of stale chocolate. of course i'm going to eat it it's chocolate. . . . you know? :lol:

Daghain
11-10-2008, 07:43 PM
I voted average. It was good, but it wasn't spectacular.

William50
11-10-2008, 07:43 PM
It was ok. It was one of the latest Sk books I read so it's fresh in my memory, but it is nowhere near the top of my "Favorites" list.

ManOfWesternesse
11-11-2008, 01:32 AM
A 4 for me. Pretty good book.

Jean
11-11-2008, 01:44 AM
Voted "5". Love this book.

Darkthoughts
11-11-2008, 03:40 AM
I voted 4. It scared the crap out of me first time I read it (I lived alone at that point) and listened to the audio a few months ago and it was better than I remembered.

I like the different perspectives age can give you on a story like this.

mae
11-11-2008, 06:39 AM
Personally, I voted 3. To me it was just average. Certainly an early work, somewhat raw. It has its charm, of course.

Darkthoughts
11-11-2008, 12:00 PM
Certainly an early work, somewhat raw.

Even though it could be argued that it's rawness is due to King's age and experience as a writer at that point - it's what lent it credibility to me. It sounded very much the voice of a teenage girl, I don't think he could have pulled it off as well if he'd written it later in life.

mae
11-11-2008, 12:33 PM
Oh absolutely.

Darkthoughts
11-11-2008, 12:34 PM
:thumbsup:

Heather19
11-11-2008, 06:20 PM
Went with average on this one. It was ok, but I didn't enjoy it nearly as much as his other stories I've read.

stone, rose, unfound door
11-11-2008, 11:31 PM
I thought it was a brilliant teenage story written by a man about a teenage girl who's not average. Still, I can't give it a 5 since I found it good but not awesomely so.

wizardsrainbow
11-12-2008, 10:48 AM
For a first novel, It was pretty good overall.

Patrick
11-15-2008, 11:14 PM
I read this for the first time pretty recently, I agree with the comments by Darkthoughts and Wizardsrainbow. I thought it was good.

mae
11-17-2008, 11:35 AM
And the poll has closed with 62 votes in.

Aaron
11-18-2008, 07:24 AM
The first post of this thread has been edited to indicate Carrie's final average score, which is 3.69090909. Carrie will not be moving on to Round 2 of the competition.