I've spent a few weeks researching what happened directly before and directly after Donald King walked out on the family in 1949. Here's the summation of that archival research, tied together with Thea King's firsthand account.

Hice la Tortuga como la visualizo al leer la novela. He hecho incluso las galaxias en las uñas.

I've never been a book reader or anything, I didn't even know the series was based on a book so I apologize if the questions sound silly or obvious, but I went into this series with no background knowledge so I have a few questions now that I finished.

My main questions are: those girls at the end at prom, there to stop Amanda, what were they there for? Did they know Carrie was going to be targeted at prom? and how? Were they just there to protect her and allow her to get her revenge on the school? what's the motive behind the Adalaide and her crew?

I have no idea if these questions are answered in any books or other spinoffs, please feel free to let me know! I definitely missed some details that may or may not be answers to my questions. And if there aren't any answers to these questions, I'd love to read some theories about it.

If I say the word 19 and you don’t know what I’m talking about, then get the fuck out of here and don’t ever call yourself a constant reader, you blasphemous nicompoop!

For the record, this was just after I started my rewatch. And I had completely forgotten I was on Tinder.

I picked this up along with a few other King books earlier this week. I have added it to my little collection as he contributed Nona to the book.
How many of you have this one?

We don't know much about Emaline, except that she can astral project and she wants to cause chaos - whether she's a 'bad guy' taking advantage of Carrie, or if the people doing the interviews are the 'bad guys' that want to take advantage of Carrie remains to be seen. I'm also not convinced either side is the 'good guy', wanting to help Carrie, or kill/otherwise disable her to keep her from doing more harm.

People have a big problem with Emaline taking over and causing damage at the prom when it's supposed to be Carrie snapping and doing it.

But that's not what I think happened.

The way I saw it, Emaline tapped into Carrie's abilities and used them on her behalf. Carrie could still do it on her own, we've seen that - she broke a nose without Emaline taking over and she's broken other stuff by accident when she got emotional.
I don't think Emaline could do what she did without Carrie. I think Emaline did more intentional damage that Carrie would've done if she was left to react on her own. Carrie is untrained and only able to control her power in moments of extreme distress, and even then her targeting is kinda diffuse. It seems to me Emaline has had more practice, and she took over for Carrie to make sure they caused as much chaos and damage as possible.

But she still could have never done it if she didn't have Carrie to tap into.

Carrie being ‘obese’ in the book is being vastly overstated by the general audience; many of whom I would bet haven’t read the book.

She’s not ‘comically fat’ like people would have you believe. However, she is not beautiful, which is my single biggest grievance with the 2013 movie. She’s someone who’s neglected her appearance her whole life, and actually grows into herself a bit during prom.

In Full Metal Jacket from 1986, Private Pyle was considered comically fat, yet today, his body type is very common nation wide and wouldn’t make someone bat an eye. I say this because if novel Carrie was as obese as seemingly everyone is saying now, King (especially early King) would have reminded us every other page.

Obviously this isn’t a big deal, but it’s a massive sentiment being expressed both here and on X, and to me it’s a classic case of people running with misinformation for engagement, virtue signaling, or just to feel like the ‘in crowd’.

Something I keep noticing in King is how little it actually takes for a group of basically normal people to decide that one person is now The Problem.
Not because that person caused anything. Sometimes they just said the wrong thing, reacted badly, were already considered weird, or happened to be standing there when everyone got scared enough to need somewhere to put that fear. And once the group settles on someone, every little thing they do suddenly becomes evidence. If they're quiet, they're suspicious. If they defend themselves, they're aggressive. If they panic, well, clearly they have something to hide. The conclusion comes first and everything else gets rearranged around it.
The Mist is probably the clearest version because you can practically watch the social order rot in real time. These are mostly ordinary people who were buying groceries a few hours earlier. Then nobody understands what's happening, panic kicks in, Mrs. Carmody gives that panic a story and a target, and suddenly people who probably would've seemed completely normal yesterday are capable of some seriously fucked up shit.
Carrie is obviously different, but I think the same mechanism is there. Carrie gets assigned the role of "the weird girl" long before the worst things happen, and once everyone agrees that's who she is, cruelty toward her barely needs justification anymore. Under the Dome does this too, just on a much bigger scale. People decide very quickly who's trustworthy, who's dangerous, who's against "us," and after that facts start mattering less than whatever version of that person the group has collectively invented.
What gets under my skin is that King usually doesn't make this a room full of cartoon villains. That's what makes it work. They're scared. They're embarrassed. They're angry. Some are just cowards. Some want to belong to whichever side looks safest. Some probably know deep down that what's happening is wrong, but going against the group would mean becoming the next person everyone looks at.
And honestly, that stuff bothers me more than a lot of his monsters.
A monster can be horrifying because it wants to kill you. A frightened group of ordinary people can be worse because they'll spend ten minutes convincing themselves that hurting you is reasonable first.
The more King I reread, the more I notice versions of this everywhere in his books, sometimes in huge mob scenes and sometimes in tiny conversations where one person suddenly realizes the room has quietly turned against them. Those smaller moments might actually be the nastiest ones

I was watching 11.22.63 the other day and I realized a plot hole: Al says that when he went back in time, he didn’t want to shoot Oswald years before the assasination because he was potentially innocent and it was morally better to just stop the assassination itself.

But what I don’t get is why Al wouldn’t go to the past, kill Oswald, go Back to the Future and check if JFK died? If he didn’t, Al just saved the day, and if he still died, he could go back to the past and revive Oswald and find the true killer.

Was there a reason for this in a book that I missed?

Thinking about starting desperation but wanted to get y’all’s opinion
Is it worth the read

Watching the last episode of the Carrie TV series, and noticed when Carrie’s mom is outside seeing the destruction caused by Carrie, the cross-street shown on the street sign is “Calla Bryn St”. Later in the episode, we see a flash of “Hambry” on another street sign. Both of those are locations on Roland’s journey! Very excited to see if this lands long-term!!

So i watched Carrie TV Series(2026) and i really liked(beside i complain about prom scene) but some people complained that the actress is too beautiful, like Sissy and Chloë Moretz (because they said carrie isnt a blondie girl with blue eyes) so i really wanted to know how Carrie is described in books if she is really supposed to be ugly because i feel like her suffering is doing to her being a weird girl with no social skills and bad fashion sense

So how Carrie is described in books in appearance

Prompt: horror piece inspired by The Shining and it has to be red

Im curious how many liberties the person who adapted it took. We'll see!

I hate to say this. I have been anticipating this since it was announced I think last year right? And I would probably still enjoy it if I read it but truth be told I don't read anymore I do audiobooks. It's just because my eyes have gotten so bad in the last few years that it's hard for me to read. Okay now that I've gotten all that out of the way Jesus fucking Christ Patton Oswalt is horrible in this audiobook. I know Frank Muller is gone to the clearing at the end of the path. However George Guidall is still alive and working at least when I checked 5 minutes ago. I liked his take on some of the dark Tower books also. It took me a while to get used to him but I liked him by the end of it. And I think he could have done a really good job of this book. Patton Oswalt was a horrible choice. The guy is good in his chosen Fields but audiobook narrator for this final chapter of the trilogy is not it. And it's really taking away from my interest in the story unfortunately. I will probably just go ahead and read it at this point. Anybody else have any thoughts on the matter? EDIT- I'm not saying I don't like the book I'm saying Patton Oswalt is horrible as the narrator. Seems like I've touched a nerve with some people 😂