The Regulators

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Summary: Parenthetical Cancer
Review: I read with interest about the discovery of _The Regulators_ manuscript after Bachman's death from cancer in late 1985. I found myself wondering, what type of cancer? Then I read the first 3 chapters, and I knew that it must have been some sort of tumor eating Bachman's brain even as he was typing away at this story. But there are different types of brain tumors, and after consulting with a friend who is a medical doctor, we have determined that Mr. Bachman was suffering from a very rare type of brain tumor referred to in the medical community as "parenthetical cancer." Symptoms include using phrases enclosed within parentheses every sentence or two - a practice that is so annoying for readers that it sometimes causes their heads to explode. Other indications include the excessive use of hyphens and dashes. Not widely known, Bachman's widow reports that she discovered the body over his typewriter, which contained a page completely filled with nothing but parentheses and hyphens, much like when Wendy discovered Jack Torrence's 1,000 pages of "All work and no play makes Jack a dull boy." Sorry, Steve, this work ranks right down there with Rose Madder, and can best be summarized by one word: CORNY.

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Summary: Just Plain Fun!
Review: I enjoyed this book. I read a couple of bad reviews of it but I think that those critics just didn't understand what "Richard Bachman" was trying to do. That is: write a good, entertaining novel with very little depth. Who cares?! It was fun!

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Summary: IS KING "BACHMAN" LOSING HIS TOUCH?
Review: Another "flop". This one disappointed me as much as Desparation. The Bachman books were terrific (I've read them at least 20 times), I could hardly finish The Regulators. Looks like Richard and Steven need to get together and try to write one really good novel. I should have waited for the paperback edition instead of wasting $35.

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Summary: Great book but as usual SK outdoes RB.Desperation worth more
Review: Great fiction in true Bachman style, but if you read Desperation first, as I did, you'll be a little disappointed. I had fun correlating the different characters with their Desperation counterparts.

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Summary: Goodish....by far not his best
Review: It had some good scenes in it, but one should really think whether King and Bachman are the same person. While King writes superb stories, like Pet Sematary and The Shining, Richard Bachman gives us this..and what IS this? It is basically showing that the King of horror may be abdicating his throne to the likes of another author. Another thing I want to know is: What comes first? Desperation or The Regulators? "Desperation" is a good, old-style King story, and Bachman's Regulators is a bit disappointing. Not even the excess gore in some scenes saves it from its, let's face it, dumn plot. Let's just hope that the King isn`t really abdicating....

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Summary: Freddy Kruggar in a van?
Review: Stephen King is my favorite author, but I must say, none of his books have been this bad, even Pet Semitary. I read the first half and became bored to death. There were sixty-billion characters, all impossible to keep track of. It is incredibly violent. Deaths are expected in any of King's books, but I thought they were all distasteful and graphic. The story reminded me of a slasher film with Freddy in colorful vans. It was a good story and everything fit together, but it didn't appeal to me.

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Summary: This author is a genius with words.
Review: It would seem that fantasy overcoming reality has been done to death (pun definitely intended!) The blood and killing off of characters after the reader has become attached to them makes for a heaviness of heart; and is too close to real reality these days to be fun reading. Yet I'm reading Richard Bachman (aka King), and here's the reason: the man is a genius with words! No need to look beyond the first paragraph to fall under his spell: "...the apotheosis of summer, the avatar of summer, high green perfect central Ohio summer, dead-smash in the middle of July..." Readers love words, and their clever assembly distinguishes the mediocre from the so-gifted he can't help himself!

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Summary: boring for the first 1/2
Review: This book was very boring for the 1st 1/2(almost 300 pages) because they gave you information without any backround info. until the last 1/2. Then he gave you backround info. and it got better, but this book wasn't very suspenful, action-packed, or scary. I gave Richard Bachman a try and I will never read another book from him. I am sure that if they make this book into a movie, I will NOT see it.

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Summary: The Regulaters
Review: At first when I read it I thought it was a continuing story from Desperation but boy was I wrong. Out of a 1-10 I would give this book an infinity number. I couldn't put the book down. I even read the book while I was taking a bath. If you've read Desperation this book is a must to read. If you've read neither then hurry up and jump on that wagon because you don't know what you're missing. Another thing I like about this book is that it's not predictable.

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Summary: A comic book for the mind. . . .
Review: Although there are no pictures, The Regulators reads like a comic book. As each page is turned, the pictures are formed in your mind, so vividly, that your forget that your reading text and not looking at the artwork of a well illustrated comic. Tak is the evil child in all of us. The child most of us successfully control. Tak, however, cannot be controlled. For every situation where you think to yourself "this is getting goofy.." there are two other situations where you are formulating the story right along with Richard Bachman. This is fun read for those of us who grew up with a box full of comics under the bed. . . . reading every night with a flashlight under the covers, rereading the same comic dozens of times. . . .loving evey minute of it. VIVA LA ESCAPE!