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Title: The Regulators by Stephen King, Richard Bachman, Charles O. Verrill ISBN: 0-451-19101-3 Publisher: Signet Pub. Date: 02 April, 2002 Format: Mass Market Paperback Volumes: 1 List Price(USD): $7.99 |
Average Customer Rating: 3.38 (177 reviews)
Rating: 5
Summary: I am fetished...
Comment: Here we go. After 10 years, Stephen King exhumed his well-known Bachman pseudonym. This volume, and companion 'Desperation', share the characters, although having read one, you will be seriously surprised how he shuffled the cast of characters. I claim that this is an outrageously excellent idea - haven't seen one so far. Bravo! This has been my greatest pleasure of reading those two books one after another. This one I read first, and strongly recommend doing so. Characters are introduced within first several pages, whereas in 'Desperation', there are substantial lags between the intros of particular heroes. Reading in this fashion, you will wonder and wonder, how else the characters were mutated in the latter book. I guess that guys who reversed the sequence were equally amazed, but in the way I can't grasp right now. 'Regulators' is a fast-paced, dark, cruel novel, ideal for the cinema script. I actually found it thrilling. The lonely suburban street in the middle of nowhere, Ohio. A sequence of vans enter the street. The massacre rampage begins. Put yourself into such a situation. Try at least. Now, I guess that fashions and dedication to teleseries and film characters inspired King to construct the main theme of the book. The nedd to identify with flawless celuloid heroes. Detachement from reality, which usually in now way resembles the pastel environment of television and movies. For those who are bored with the idea of a small kid with supernatural powers, who always survives the mess King envisions in his numerous novels: here there are no winners. Especially among kids. Who said that Bachman is just King without a consicence? Last comment - the book design is very inventive, as you will see if you purchase the hardcover edition. I am a book-lover and felt fetished by this carefully edited volume. Go for it!
Rating: 2
Summary: The Regulators is imaginative, but not character driven
Comment: Having read everything King has published (as far as I know, and with the exception of Desperation), I can say that The Regulators, while being a fine example of frenetic pace & action in a novel, doesn't pack the punch that King's (and Bachman's for that matter) earlier novels do. It seems to me King likes to explore situations from different points of view, which may explain his fixation with the ''Woman as Protagonist'' theme developed in Gerald's Game, Dolores Claiborne and Rose Madder. While I commend him on his versatility and dedication to providing his readers with an interesting array of characters and plots, a big part of me wishes he would retrace his steps and write a good, old fashioned ghost story like The Shining...Pet Sematary...Christine...and of course (in my opinion) his swan song, It. Added to the wonderful storylines in those novels, they also had very detailed characters with whom you could really empathize - something which was lacking in The Regulators. While I still consider King to be the Mark Twain of the 20th century with his dead-on, perceptive social commentary, I would welcome a return to something as simple as a haunted car or a haunted hotel!
Rating: 5
Summary: Welcome back, your Highness
Comment: I think this is one of the best pieces of real pulp horror that Stephen King has ever written. While ohter reviewers cut inot the supposed lack of character development, they are missing the big picture. This book was written to keep you on the edge of your seat, afaraid to turn out the lights when you can finally put the book down. The idea of a virtually indestructible, omnipotent villian has probably been kicked around by most writers of horror fiction, but only King had the balls to try it. And he did a great job, in my opinion.
One reviewer even went so far as to say that King didn't know anything about guns when one of his characters claimed that the projectile found in the house didn't have a mark form the firing pin. That was the whole point! The bullet was created by Seth/Tak. They didn't know how a gun worked, just that it killed. That was also why the bullet was shaped like a big cone, as if a child had drawn it. Please, don't nitpick on the book if you don't understand the premise in the first place.
Some say that this was far from King's best work, but after such stinkers as Rose Madder and Gerald's Game, it was a great relief that he came back to doing what he does best, scaring the hell out of his audience.
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Title: Desperation by Stephen King ISBN: 0451188462 Publisher: Signet Pub. Date: April, 2003 List Price(USD): $7.99 |
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Title: Insomnia by Stephen King ISBN: 0451184963 Publisher: Signet Pub. Date: September, 1995 List Price(USD): $7.99 |
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Title: The Eyes of the Dragon by Stephen King, David Palladini ISBN: 0451166582 Publisher: Signet Pub. Date: 10 April, 2001 List Price(USD): $7.99 |
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Title: Rose Madder by Stephen King ISBN: 0451186362 Publisher: Signet Pub. Date: June, 1996 List Price(USD): $7.99 |
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Title: Black House by Peter Straub, Stephen King ISBN: 0345441036 Publisher: Ballantine Books Pub. Date: 27 August, 2002 List Price(USD): $7.99 |
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