by Stephen King
bookshelves: fraudio, tbr-busting-2015, published-1996, north-americas, boo-scary, winter-20142015, ohio, spring-2015 Read from February 01 to April 18, 2015 Description: There's a place in Wentworth, Ohio, where summer is in full swing. It's called Poplar Street. Up until now it's been a nice ...
I read the sister book to The Regulators, Desperation, in May of last year, and it easily ranks as one of my favorite books. They have a lot in common, but there is definitely a difference in the overall vibe of the two books.I really love the parallel universe thing going on here. It's a great conc...
This made me want to re-read Desperation.
In a word: chilling. Maybe it's the fact that I started this at the start of summer with all of its potential, exactly the way this macabre, surreal carnival does. The Regulators takes place on an average American street, one so familiar to small towns that it could literally be anywhere. Baseball i...
It's been a while since I read this book. I had some pretty fond memories of it, and it's always been my favorite of two companion books that King/Bachman published together. They are alternate realities, kind of mirror images, of each other... But The Regulators is also a link to the Dark Tower uni...
1996 - The Regulators by Richard Bachman1996 - Desperation by Stephen KingThese 2 were meant to be companion books by King using as they did the same character names, in a similar sort of peril from the same monster. A lot of reviewers said it was lazy writing at the time but I personally loved it. ...