After being dead set against reading any Stephen King novels for years I decided to give Carrie a try because the premise intrigued me, but I should have just stuck to my instincts not to read anything by him. There wasn't anything inherently terrible about Carrie, I just never found myself wanting to pick it up to read more of it. I got about halfway through (which took me way too long for a 200-page book) and then took a month-long break to read some other things and now that some time has passed my interest in finishing it has dwindled to nothing. I looked up a summary of the ending and that was all I really needed. 

There were also some writing choices that I didn't vibe with like some of the language that was used and these interjections that would be placed in the middle of sentences that I think were supposed to be a character's inner thoughts or inner monologue but they would throw me off because they would completely interrupt the sentence I was reading. It just felt very jarring and I would have preferred it if they weren't in there at all or at least came after a sentence was over instead of being placed directly in the middle of one.

Will I pick up any more of King's books? Probably not but you never know.