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Title	:	The Bachman Books
Author	:	Richard Bachman
Book Format	:	Paperback
Book Edition	:	Anniversary Edition
Pages	:	Pages: 704 pages
Published	:	October 1st 1996 by Plume (first published October 1985)
Categories	:	Horror. Fiction. Thriller. Mystery. Suspense

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Rage: One of King’s earliest works, Rage wasn’t published until he had established himself and when it was, it was published under the author name Richard Bachman. This novel is definitely raw in many aspects, but I think that is what helps to give it its charm. The story centers on a student who kills his teacher in front of his class and holds the class hostage for most of the day. He and the class then discuss a variety of issues, but the main conversation revolves around what has led him to this. King’s narrative and character development really help to pull the reader into the story and there is enough tension to help keep things moving when it starts to seem that it’s going to be dull. Not the most action packed or scary of King’s novels, but still manages to be a page turner. I rank it up with the top of his novels from the story-telling aspect of this novel alone. The Long Walk: The Long Walk is another of Stephen King's novels written as Richard Bachman. In the traditional style of his Bachman writings, it is much more raw than most of his other writing. I enjoy the change in style as it lends even more realism to his writing and makes the story even more intense. The Long Walk isn't really a horror tale so much as it is a tale of friendships formed under dire circumstances. We see up close how this interpersonal relationships grow and dissolve and reform again with great frequency throughout the race. It is also about the strength of the human spirit. When pushed to its limits, the human mind continues to push the body on into realms never deemed possible by the rational mind. The story is a good one, if a little predictable, and even though it moves along at a slower pace than some, it's almost like we are right there with the walkers as follow-along spectators. Rich in detail and character, the slow pace doesn't make you want to stop reading, if anything, it enhances the tension. I truly enjoyed rereading this novel and plan on visiting it again in the future. Road Work: This is my lowest rated King book so far. Not to say that it is a bad book or that I would discourage anyone from reading it, but it's definitely not on par with the majority of King's other works. As usual, character development is top notch and the plot itself has no real problems. My problem with the book is that it really takes forever to get anywhere. The basic theory of the plot is that we see a man's descent into madness as everything that he has worked his entire life for is being taken away from him. He systematically sets out to destroy anything that he has left and tries to find a way to exact some sort of vengeance against the powers that be who have ruined his existence. I have no problem with this storyline except that the way that it plays out, a lot of it is a rehash of what happens to the mind of Jack Torrance in The Shining. It's not nearly as nutty as The Shining, nor do we have the supernatural overtones in Roadwork, but I just got the general impression that I'd experienced the feel of the novel somewhere else. Anyway, I don't want to condemn this story in any way. The main character is compelling and endearing in his way and the novel definitely has some strong moments here and there, I just felt that it took a little to long to get to some of them. The Running Man: It's the future and Ben Richards journeys to the Network Games Building to apply for a job as a contestant in order to supply the money to feed his family and provide medicine for his sick infant daughter. The job he gets ends up being more than both he and the Network bargained for! The Running Man is a fairly well written tale set in the now not too distant future. Interestingly enough, the country is riveted to their free-vees in order to watch what is in essence nothing more than an unending stream of reality television game shows. It makes me wonder if Mark Burnett based some of his ideas upon this book and the (sort of) related movie. Once Richards has moved through the application process, the action moves along at a pretty brisk pace and there are some really nice elements of storytelling apparent throughout. My only complaint is that King tries a little too hard with creating the future setting and goes overboard with the names and slogans for things that he uses in his setting. At times, especially during the beginning of the book, it's a bit cheesy and distracting.

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Original Title:	The Bachman Books
ISBN:	0452277752 (ISBN13: 9780452277755)
Edition Language:	English

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It's been a good 10-12 years since I've read this one, and it was long overdue for a re-read. Especially considering the fact that the only story I could really even remember in even the vaguest way was "The Long Walk". So I picked it up to give it another whirl. Not disappointed at all, but of course, that's no surprise."Rage" slipped through the cracks in my mind, big-time. I was browsing around online, and seen an article about this book of SK's about a school shooting that was no longer

Updating this review after 12 years. Road Work is the only weak link in this book, although legend has it that Rage is out of print finally (probably to King's great relief). Update: I still find this to be the weakest of the four stories, but now as a more adulty-adult than I was when I first read it, I can recommend it for its understanding of the mindless machine of government "progress," and of the terror of being an adult and still having no control over your world. It's not a bad story,

Every time I re-read this, with my old, ragged copy that's falling apart at the seams with masking tape and hope keeping it from completely collapsing into a pile of loose pages, I fall a little bit more in love with it. I'm going to take it a novel at a time, because I love each and every one of them, even if it did take me a while to enjoy Roadwork as much as I do now, or at all, really, so let's get started.Rage, first of all - I've always loved Rage, and I love that it's the first one in the

Three-stars is what the whole volume averages out to. I'll rate the four novels individually:Rage: 1 star. It's puerile and terrible. Textbook teen angst and resultant school shooting. A yawner considering the quality of the next one...The Long Walk: 4-5 stars? Hard to say. It is inventive, nerve-wracking and weird. Whereas the dialogue sometimes fumbles (what teenager calls anyone 'whoreson'? wonders the main character himself) and some of the characters are wafer thin, it's very original and

This is a book of two halves. Or rather, one third and two thirds. I loved both The Long Walk and The Running Man,, but found Roadwork a bit bland. It's a good thing they stuck it in the middle, because I may have just given up on it if it had been the last of the three stories included in this book. But, as they say, two out of three ain't bad.The Long Walk sees teenage boys doing just what it says on the tin: walking. And walking. And walking. The last one standing - walking - wins everything

I think this was my second or third King book. It collects all but Thinner of the original five Bachman novellas."The Running Man" I already reviewed. Better than (and WAY different from) than the movie"The Long Walk" I also already reviewed. it's one of my favorite stories of all time. Love it."Roadwork" I don't remember all that well, but I know I liked it."Rage" was the controversial one. It's about a student who took his high school class hostage, killing the teacher in the process. The rest

These four novellas are almost as good as their cousins from Different Seasons . It's a shame that the Columbine Shootings have directly proceeded to the best of the four storiesRage, with its everyone-can-find-some-angle-to-relate-to protagonist Charlie Decker, he who thrashed in his sleep whilst in the marescape of The Cherokee Nose Jobbeing consigned to the ashbin of publishing history. No more shall the intrepid young reader experience the thrilling fractured-mirror empathic pulses from the