The Regulators

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Summary: Wonderful Book
Review: This book is a great. The late Richard Bachman should've written more novels like The Regualtors before he died in 1985.

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Summary: RECOMMENDED read
Review: It's not SKs best but christ! it's a heck of alot better than most horror written by other authors.

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Summary: This is my favorite book
Review: Many fans of Stephen King may think I'm nuts for saying "The Regulators" is my favorite book, but it is. "The Regulators" is a thrill ride from beginning to end that I loved reading. When I was reading this book, I took it everywhere so I could read more of it. I took to the doctor's, I took it to school, I took it everywhere. I hated whenever I had to put it down because I always wanted to be reading it. The characters are believable in their actions, and the plot was always interesting. Essentially, it was about television. I liked that about the book: How Tak was using the young host mind of Seth Garin to work his plans. It made the plot more original than many novels I've read. I finished "The Regulators" in 9 days, which is faster than I've ever completed a Stephen King novel. I enjoyed it immensely. Everyone should.

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Summary: Not even on a par with "Christine" or "Needful Things" .
Review: I thought that the beginning was interesting enough, the so-called "vintage" King, but the book started dragging along soon after the first shot was fired.. the realism was there until the plot interceded.. almost didn't finish the book out of sheer boredom.. hopefully King will get out of the rut he seems to be in and return to his old ways.. two stars on name recognition alone.

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Summary: Not bad but not good either
Review: I found it to be suspenseful and frightening enough in places but I had a lot of complaints, including the repetitive nature of the massacre scenes (oh, the vans are back AGAIN), the fact that the scenes from the Garron house were completely stomach-wrenching and painful to read (like the rape scene), and the unsatisfying ending. This is pure pulp fiction, fun in places (in its 'end of the world' chaos in suburbia) but flawed.

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Summary: So disjointed it's unreadable!
Review: I read the companion book, Desperation, first. While Desperation was well written, this ridiculous "companion" to it made no sense to me whatsoever. I read about 75 pages because I couldn't believe how bad it was.

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Summary: A good book - I read this one first.
Review: I really liked this book. It is a little more gorey than my taste but it was very original and i loved all the letters, scripts, pictures and other notes added in. It's true the charaters were not as defined as the story but i really liked how the town was changing around them. I'd have to say the part when they try to get out off the block is my favorite. I think my opinion might have been a little different if i would have read Desperation first. That book had a better plot. I enjoyed how the books were intertwined, it made it very enjoyable and a fast read.

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Summary: Wonderful..Simply Wonderful
Review: Being a Stephen King fan for years, I only recently found this book and I was enthralled. Although the tale has several intermingling plots, it's a fast read. In fact I sat down and read it in less than a day. I highly reccomend this novel to Anyone!

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Summary: Fun
Review: A fun enjoyable quick read which keeps you on the edge of your seat from the beggining to the end. It is predictable though and there are too many characters to keep track of. But in the end the pluses outweigh the negatives

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Summary: A non-frightening novel that does not connect
Review: It is almost a travesty to consider this undefined novel in the same league as King's other novel, Desperation. Also, the letters that King threw in at the end of each chapter could have been written in an off-the-cuff manner throughout the story. King's repetative use of character names appears to have been an effort to sucker readers in that have already finished reading Desperation. The bottom line is that the novel doesn't work at any level.