While I do love all 4 of these works, currently, I have just re read THE LONG WALK, a bok I re read every single year yes, it is THAT good I never tire of it I always think new thoughts when I get to that ending, even if I do think the ending happens rather abruptly and is left open to interpretation on purpose King is a genius I think this story was written in 1979 or so, and yet he likeedicted the future of humanity The book takes place in America s future, with The Long Walk becoming the new [...]

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 being publis [...]

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 [...]

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 stories Rage, 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 Job being consigned to the ashbin of publishing history No shall the intrepid young reader experience the thrilling fractured mirror empathic pulses from the origi [...]

Rage was so predictive I m glad it s no longer in print, but equally glad I read it first.

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 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 bindup [...]

What a mixed bag I loved The Long Walk with its imaginative plot and great character study Who would have thought that a book about walking can be so intense and gruesome Hunger Games has nothing on this bad boy Roadwork, on the other hand, kind of bored me I could see what it was trying to do mainly a slow unraveling of the main character into madness, but I just couldn t focus on the story What is the motivation Why the stubbornness I understand that the house represented than just a material [...]

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 Rage 20 years before high school massacres started in America, King wrote this story of a misunderstood and clearly mentally ill kid going apeshit and holding his classroom hostage The Long Walk Once a year, one representative from each state, all boys around 18, set off walking at 4 MPH If they slow down, they get warned After the 3rd warninglet s just say that [...]

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 oneThe 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 rip offable The pl [...]

This is a collection of four novels As I finish them, I will write mini reviews for them.Rage While unrealistic in many senses, this has been among the most interesting and gripping Stephen King story I ve read yet The mob mentality that is created and the twist that makes this horror instead of just a thriller is something that could have come off as amaturish, but works really well under King s hand The horror in this story is namely in that in underminds all the classical stereotypes of what [...]

Stephen King created the alter ego of Richard Bachman just to prove that he can make it once again by himself, he says an enterprise in which he was moderately successful before somebody ferreted out the real identity of this elusive author This multiple personality syndrome that occurs with writers is explored by King in the story Secret Window, Secret Garden and the novel The Dark Half However, after Bachman was outed as Steve King, the sales soared naturally and this book was published, colle [...]

Without a doubt one of my favourite books, the Bachman Books proves that horror is not about vampires, werewolves and blood but rather about human nature, depravity and circumstance The Long Walk, Rage, Roadwork and the Running Man were included in my copy, with Thinner and the Regulators being read seperately Out of them all I would have to say that the Long Walk was my favourite for its intensity and bitter comprehension I used these stories as examples whenever people feel it necessary to kno [...]

I hate to rate this 3.5 stars, but the story Roadwork really pulled it down a lot The other 3 stories in this book were pretty decent, The Long Walk being my favorite You can find seperate reviews that I have wrote for each one King did a great job with creating different writing styles between King and Bachman I applaud him on that So it was refreshing to read something a little diferent.

This is a great collection of early Bachman stories written by Stephen King Rage, The Long Walk, The Running Man, and Roadwork I ve reviewed them all separately, and some I ve liked than others, but still, in my profession and expert opinion, it s hard to go wrong with King.

Reason for Reading I m in the process of of re reading all of Stephen King s works in chronological order I m reading these books individually in the order they were published between his other works After having read through the entire book over the time period of a few years I ve concluded that The Long Walk is my favourite novel here, which I do remember enjoying a lot the first time around also My least favourite was Roadwork , though I ll say I didn t not like any of them Taken together on [...]

I read these back in 2015 These stories make me think of Stephen King s short story, UR Imagine another universe where SK chose to write literary fiction instead of horror I love his literary fiction, especially The Long Walk I enjoy his genius in literary contrast In his controversial book, Rage, I found myself laughing at the killer s dark humor and trying to stop myself, because it felt wrong to laugh.

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 he could eve [...]

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 of the story i [...]

This is a collection of four early Stephen King novels which were originally published under his now famous Richard Bachman pseudonym The Long Walk and The Running Man are arguably in the ball park of science fiction, Roadwork is a very interesting character study, and Rage is a chilling and foreshadowing vision of Columbine and such subsequent incidents The novels are all substantially shorter than almost all of his later works, and have a pure and exhilarating full speed ahead and damn the tor [...]

This is the omnibus that is no longer sold commercially, thanks to the lead novella Rage, which was found in the locker of one of the school shooters of the late 90s You will now find editions of the other three novellas sold separately Luckily for me, I bought this before SK took this one off the market.Looking back 10 years later, I think most of these stories hold up very well especially since some of them were among the first things King ever wrote The Running Man is the only clunker, made e [...]

Just finished the Bachman books, I skipped through the long walk because I already read it I found rage and the running man both fascinating in their own way but hit a slump with roadwork, I can almost say I hated it hahaha If you go for rage and running man, i totally recommend this.

I reviewed each story separately.Go check out my reviews.The Long Walk 4 My Review The Long WalkRoadwork 3 My Review Roadwork The Running Man 5 My Review The Running Man

The original version of The Running Man would have made a much better movie than the one Arnold starred in, but with the 9 11 attacks and the protagonist s obvious racial views and language, it couldn t have been done by a Jewish owned Hollywood movie studio King had a realistic worldview before he got hit by that car and totally cucked.

I actually like a lot of what Stephen King has written although some of it, like The Gunslinger, seems too hastily written and lengthy This one of the better collections I liked The Long Walk 1979 especially.

I read Rage and The Long Walk Very violent and depressing I didn t care for them They were well written but as any who know me, I don t do depressing pleasure reading I m glad that King s style has changed.

Stephen King.oops Richard Bachman is a master of short stories and I really loved this collection Mind you, I read this years ago but I still remember how good it was.

I picked up this book used on after reading King s recent long essay, On Guns, which is where I learned he had taken the first novel in this collection, Rage, out of circulation due to its popularity with school shooters The collection actually includes four early King novels under his Richard Bachman pseudonym Rage, The Long Walk, Roadwork and The Running Man And they are all worth reading First, they are all really well written, including the most adolescent and anti social of the group, Rage [...]

I liked two out of the four It was interesting to read Stephen King s early work.

Rage Simplified Plot The Long Walk Entertaining Roadwork Underrated The Running Man Dystopian Suspense That simply sums up each novel within The Bachman Books And since there ARE four novels included, I provided an individual review of each one and then an overall review at the end of The Bachman Books But, the review for each of these four novels should not be considered a review comparing the four It should be considered a review based on as if it were an individual book being compared to all [...]

I ve read the first four Bachman books a few times now and these are how I d rank the stories contained herein 1 The Running Man 4.5 stars, standalone review this one bears very little similarity to the movie starring Arnie, including the ending which is totally spoiled by the introduction by Stephen King in the standalone version of this book don t read the introduction first Ben Richards is much darker and angrier than in the movie, too This is really a tie with the second book for being the b [...]