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A terrific read, you won't want to put it down

Advantages: Four stories in one; Amazing plot lines
Disadvantages: One of the stories is hard work, but the rest.....genius!!

...were not your run of the mill horror, he was found out by a journalist who spotted his name on some copywrite documents and then stopped using it. As a King fan I was looking forward to reading this book, which is a compilation of four stories written under his pseudonym, and I was not dissapointed. As I said, these are not your usual horrors, dealing instead with a more psychological thriller aspect. The first story is Rage, the story of a student ...
...it has you wondering all the way through whats going to happen next, kept me gripped. Then there is The Long Walk, a fascinating story about a contest where 100 young men quite literally walk until only one is left alive, sound boring? It isn't!! The interaction between the contestants as they go along is stunning and had me close to tears at points. Roadworks is the story of a man, Bart Dawes, slowly going insane as he deals with his family home ...

Vickijake 16.12.2007 · Read full review
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Review of The Bachman Books - Richard Bachman

A pseudonym for success?

Advantages: Some originality, clever effective setting.
Disadvantages: Expendable characters, gore, ideas that are almost too silly...

Richard Bachman ‘died’ in the eighties (shortly after it had become well known that it was Stephen King writing under a different name.) In the forward of this novel, supposedly written by Bachman’s editor, we’re told that the author’s widow has ‘discovered’ one of his manuscripts in the cellar and passed it on for publication. This manuscript is what we see before us - ‘The Regulators’. It’s a nice little plot in itself, even if my copy does have ...
...and no doubt written in the previous years, the book is an example of King coming to the end of his prime. King still in the decade of 'IT' and 'The Stand', but only a few years before his more trashy modern horror flicks - notably 'Cell' and 'From a Buick 8', to name what are commonly seen to be just regurgitations of his earlier books. There's a reason that King goes back to Bachman occasionally to 'find' a new work. Whenever he does, something ...

Sam_Garland 11.06.2007 · Read full review
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Review of The Regulators - Richard Bachman

Emotions Run Deep

Advantages: Quite a calm book depite the theme
Disadvantages: I enjoyed it all

...himself. He became known as Blaze and the name stuck. Eventually escaping the hell-hole he finally made a friend for life - George Rackley. George was good to him and they ran cons together, making an existence on the expense of others, while never causing anyone any physical harm. But then George died and Blaze was left alone to look after himself. He finally decided to run the biggest job of his life - one that George had planned before he died. ...
...life in Acapulco. But Blaze never counted on enjoying the experience quite the way he did. I was really pleased to get this for Christmas as I had last received Lisey's Story by Stephen King and just couldn't get into it enough to get past about the first quarter of the book it was so shockingly boring. I love King and therefore leapt into this as soon as I had finished the last book I had been reading. I wasn't disappointed either. There was nothing ...

wendybull 12.02.2008 · Read full review
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Review of Blaze - Richard Bachman

There's a She-Wolf in my closet...

Advantages: dark, exciting, enjoyable
Disadvantages: other supernaturals made it feel like a childrens book at times

Stolen is the follow up to Kelley Armstrong’s “Bitten” which was the first in her Otherworld series about the only female werewolf in the world. I said in my review of Bitten that I didn’t think the book had whet my appetite enough to read the follow up, but this one came up as a swap and I thought I’d give it another shot. I’m really glad I did, as it provided a totally different vibe than the first one and as a result, I’m likely to read the next ...
...it!) Even if you haven’t read the first book, it doesn’t really take too long to catch up the narrator is Elena Michaels the werewolf herself, and she kindly and frequently briefs the reader when elaboration on a subject or sentence is necessary! However, I liked the fact that I already knew Elena’s personality, she is feisty and strong willed and it comes across strong in her narrative. She tells her story with wit and sometimes sarcasm and her ...

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Review of Stolen - Kelley Armstrong

Humanity Slowly Rotting Away

Advantages: Well-written, mysterious, captivating story.
Disadvantages: Long-winded, coarse language and repetitive dialogue.

Finally, having managed to survive the beach from hell with its three doors and monstrous lobster creatures from ‘The Drawing of the Three’, the second book in this extremely long-winded and time-consuming series, Roland and his new companions, Eddie and Susannah [aka Odetta – aka Detta], have taken a bit of time off their search for the Dark Tower in order to recuperate. During their brief ‘time-out’, Roland teaches Eddie and Susannah how to shoot, ...
...good thing, because lurking in the forest just within reach of them, is a bear, who like every other creature in Roland’s world, has grown beyond its ‘natural’ size and possesses a really bad temper. When Eddie is targeted by the humongous bear from hell, salvation comes in the unlikely form of Susannah… she may not have any legs, but she definitely knows what to do with a gun. With their lessons learned, the bear as dead as a doorknob and Roland ...

GoFigure 04.12.2009 · Read full review
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Review of The Waste Lands - Stephen King