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Summary: Great collection but with a series of low points
Review: This collection showed the style and genius that is King but it dragged in some points and others never took off. The Longwalk is a must read though.
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Summary: READ THIS COOLECTION
Review: Stephen King is a master storyteller and it shows here. I found "Rage" and "The Long Walk" completely enthralling. Though if forced to chose between the two I would have to choose "The Long Walk." If you only read one of the four, read this one.
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Summary: FOUR GREAT STORIES FROM BACHMAN AND KING!!!
Review: All the stories are great. Roadwork is the best because it tell a story of man trapped between a rock and a hard place. The only way out is his!! The Running Man isn't like the movie, but a great story as well!! The Long Walk is a journey of endless miles on the road till everyone dies trying!!--Great Stories!
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Summary: Best King Work Ever!
Review: I've read the reviews, people you are forgetting the other Bachman Books! Rage is the best of the four, but Roadwork and The Long Walk are just as good! My favorite Stephen King works are in this book! Rage can appeal to any student, Roadwork can appeal to any working man and The Long Walk witnesses the mental breakdown of a young man who will do anything to win.
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Summary: Best Book I ever read!!!!
Review: Rage is so intense I couldn't put it down and stop thinking about it
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Summary: Outstanding early effort by the best cult writer today
Review: I first read these books soon after they were published under the Bachman pseudonym. I have read each of the novellas twice and recently read "The Long Walk" for a third time. I also just read all of the reviews other readers have sent in to Amazon.com. For all of you who have panned these literary works, go back to King's Introduction and look at the timeframe these novels were written in. He began "Rage" in high school and finished it just after college. He wrote "The Long Walk" during his first two years of college. This guy is a literary genius! To think that he could get so deep at an age when most young men (myself included) are killing millions of brain cells each week with booze or chasing skirts, just shows the depth of his imagination and ability to keep you hanging on every word. A must-read for King fans, and sure to be enjoyable for all others!
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Summary: King's Best work yet!
Review: I've read all of King's books published so far (except cycle of the werewolf), and this is his best work by far!, If you never read a King book, make "The Bachman books" your first. Not all the stories are of the same quality, but the story "Rage" makes it all worthwhile, not just the best King story I've ever read, but the best story ever! It's about a high school pupil who takes his classmates as hostages, you read about it in the news about once a year ("4 people killed by crazed teenager..."), but this story goes way beyond telling you about it. Don't study psychology, read this book!
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Summary: 4 x King in one!
Review: A good, hefty collection. I must say, however, if one was to buy the book only for one novella, make that one "The Long Walk". I liked it a lot.
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Summary: A delve into one man`s troubled psyche
Review: The Bachman books? A genius hiding behind the name of a new genius? Wether it is King the master of horror. or Bachman the master of unease, either way, the end product remains the same. From the Towering genius of The Stand, he took us on "The Long Walk". All four short stories have great merit, wether it be the intensity of Roadwork, the mind-working of "Rage", The nightmare vision of "running Man".. or the piece de resistance.... "The Long Walk" A short story that is so starkly bleak in its outcome... why bother getting to know and feel for the main characters? They will all, but one, die horribly sooner or later. Its like watching all your new workmates drop one by one as you get to know them. McVries or Stebbins? Baker or Barkovich? who is next..? The awful inevitability.. the sheer desperation.. stop and you die.. walk and you must stop! Ergo, you all die.. for entertainment. Pick`em up, lay `em down.. then die. A four day analogy of life. Bleak, stark, immensely touching and awfully compelling. Watch them all die.. love them, hate them, but wait for the rifles to drop... If you win..you lose... If you lose... you lose BIG time. Understated Horror at its most magnificent. Read it or lose out.
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Summary: Eerily thought-provoking; Bachman manipulates the mind
Review: Although I almost detest these books, I cannot,
with good conscience, give them anything less than a ten. I began reading these books to silence my fiancee's nagging. Now I read them, not for pleasure, but as a result of a sick sort of fascination . . . one which I find I enjoy altogether too much. Reading these books has been frighteningly similar to watching what looks like a fur-covered lump appear on the horizon of the highway. However much you tell yourself that looking will only cause you grief, you cannot tear your eyes away. You hope for the small chance of relief when you realize it was just a tire or someone's old, crumpled shirt. With the Bachman books, most often, you have to look away at the last second with that sinking, sickening feeling in your stomach.
Not to say that this is bad. The complex journey Bachman creates, from the time you spot the lump to the time you pass it, gives brilliant insight into the nature of the characters, in particular, and people, in general. In this way Bachman envelops readers in the story, enticing and forcing them along in a straightforward, bold, untamed manner, completely distinct from that of Stephen King
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