I'm reading Carrie, good book so far, reminds me of high school (in Maine) but more the stories recounted by teachers. It reads basically as historical fiction

I'm reading Carrie, good book so far, reminds me of high school (in Maine) but more the stories recounted by teachers. It reads basically as historical fiction in the little details (jocks and seamstresses and such), while also seeming sadly in line with some recent events. In the early '70s it seems like it was cool to conform, as King explicitly asserts in the book. In the early '00s it was cool to be different. Now it seems like conformity is (was?) cool again, pretty disturbing. I'd consider making the book required reading if I were a high school English teacher. I saw the movie in high school in the '00s, very faithful to the novel and the casting was even more amazing reading the book (which is 90% of directing, according to Scorsese (who was introduced to De Niro by De Palma)), and to me surpasses the source material. Hits harder as a linear narrative.