Carrie

By: Stephen King

Narrated by: Sissy Spacek

Length: 7 hrs and 24 mins

Publisher's summary

An unpopular teenage girl, whose mother is a religious fanatic, is tormented and teased to the breaking point by her more popular schoolmates. She uses her hidden telekinetic powers to inflict a terrifying revenge.

©1974 Stephen King (P)2012 Random House Audio

Critic reviews

"A master storyteller." ( The Los Angeles Times)

"Guaranteed to chill you." ( The New York Times)

"Gory and horrifying.... You can't put it down." ( Chicago Tribune)

Soothing voice

I enjoyed Sissy Spacek’s reading of Carrie. I like listing to books as I don’t have time to sit and read. This is my 2nd book by Stephen King. I have watched most of the book to movie adaptations.

I love Carrie

So gooooood I loved this story so much suspense was so great I was only so nervous.

Holy Moly

Holy moly. I can certainly see why it propelled his career into the stratosphere. This was King's first published novel and it didn't disappoint. As a matter of fact, it was incredible. The dark mysterious tone that he created throughout the book was clearly years ahead of its time.

I loved the depth he brought to the main character and her mother. The conflict was real and was very deep. I felt it all the way.

I also felt the sadness of the book, king captured it so well.

My only criticism is that the end of the book talks about the town as though it was another character but nowhere else in the book. did it do that. I would have liked some depth given to the town earlier on in the novel. But honestly, that's the only thing I have to say. amazing.

I will add that sissy spacek narration was a little weird. When she was narrating the story it was not that good but when she was acting out characters lines it was fantastic.

So much better than I thought it would be

King is so good at his narration and character development/dialog. I always thought this was a pretty hokey premise for a story, but I was so wrong. And the narrator was simply fantastic.

Pleasantly Surprised

I was familiar with the movie, of course, and have read many of the later Stephen King novels. As this wss his first published novel, I was expecting it to be less well done than the later books. While you can tell he DID improve in later works, this book has held up well over so much time.

Sissy Spacek did an excellent job reading the story with feeling, there were a couple of things that would sometimes take me out of the story. First, it was often difficult to hear the difference in each character. The other thing is not really her fault, but does jar the listener a bit, and that is Spacek's accent. She's from Texas and it shows. The story is, unfortunately for Spacek, set in Maine.

Over all I enjoyed it very much!

Good Book

Cool having Sissy read. She has such a natural country freshness in her voice. I would have liked to have seen Sissy in a cameo of the rebooted version of the movie. She will always represent the true Carrie!

Brilliant

Listening to Sissy Spacek read Carrie is a real treat. She portrayed Carrie so brilliantly in the original film, and it's a joy to hear her read the full novel.

Great listen!

I have read the paperback version a few times but this was the first audible listen. I know many people disliked the narration but I personally enjoyed it. I don’t care that the narration didn’t include different voices for each of the characters.

I found this to be an enjoyable yet short audiobook and through listening, I picked up on some things I must’ve skipped over or failed to understand when I read the paperback.

Here are my suggestions to anyone who is skeptical: Listen to a sample on the Audible app before purchasing to see if the narration is to your liking. If you proceed and buy, keep in mind you can always return it and get your money or credit back. Speaking on behalf of myself, I have an Audible account and get one credit per month. I have returned audiobooks I haven’t liked before without any issues.

Happy listening!

absolutely wonderful.

spine tingling roller coaster of thrills
loved every minute of it. can't wait for what's next.

WOW!

I've seen the movies but have never read (or listened to) the book and it is so true that movies will never be able to fully captive the novels! Listened to it over the course of just a few days because it was sooo good! It was written so creatively a few times I wanted to go look up and see if this was an actual event that had taken place! lol. This book did not disappoint and I think I will enjoy listening to it again. :) Had no problem at all with the narration of it either.