Rage
UK edition of the Stephen King as Richard Bachman book. No longer in print since King no longer allows it to be reprinted.
UK edition of the Stephen King as Richard Bachman book. No longer in print since King no longer allows it to be reprinted.
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Format: paperback
ISBN:
9780450053795 (0450053792)
Publish date: 1983
Publisher: New English Library
Pages no: 211
Edition language: English
Charlie Decker, after hearing he's been expelled, takes a gun from his locker, sets a fire, and then returns to his classroom to shoot a teacher. The book is short, barely clocking over 200 pages, and from Charlie's perspective the reader tracks his holding his classmates hostage, one-upping authori...
This reads just as I expected it to – very early Stephen King. It’s weird, it’s graphically violent, it f***s with your head, but it has a lame wtf ending and is not quite absorbing enough to prevent the reader from thinking how unlikely it is that real people would behave this way. Not the murderou...
I read RAGE for the first time over 20+ years ago, so the story seemed new to me. In the light of all the school shootings that have occurred since this book was written, I understand why Stephen King, (aka Richard Bachman), pulled it from publication in later editions of The Bachman Books. Tha...
You can tell this was a very young King. His signature style is there, but definitely not as refined or brilliant as I've come to know him. I found myself skimming a lot of passages that was just unnecessary and long winded, but overall the book was okay. I'm not quite sure if there's any other mess...
When compared to most of the rest of the Stephen King canon, Rage is a strange case for a few reasons. It was the first novel published under the name Richard Bachman, a pseudonym King took on early in his career to prevent market saturation. The novels written under the Bachman name were leaner and...
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