The Regulators
An evil creature called Tak uses the imagination of an autistic boy to shift a residential street in small-town Ohio into a world so bizarre and brutal that only a child could think it up. It's as two-dimensional and gaudy as a kid's comic book, but for this reviewer, The Regulators is a gripping...
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An evil creature called Tak uses the imagination of an autistic boy to shift a residential street in small-town Ohio into a world so bizarre and brutal that only a child could think it up. It's as two-dimensional and gaudy as a kid's comic book, but for this reviewer, The Regulators is a gripping adventure tale about what happens when a mind fixated on TV (especially old W
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Format: Hardcover
Publisher: New York: Dutton, 1996, New York
Edition language: English
Die typische Kleinstadt-Idylle in Ohio. Blutrünstige Regulatoren rauschen durch die Straßen und erschießen jeden, der nicht rechtzeitig den Kopf einzieht. Dieser erste Rundumschlag ist der Anfang des Martyriums."Regulator" ist ein Horror-Roman von Richard Bachman alias Stephen King, der in Anlehnung...
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...
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