![]() ![]() Cain attention to occupational detail during mental derailment, this is the most restrained, thoughtful, nicely observed novel in the bunch-but the least gripping. In Roadwork a man goes berserk and begins plotting against the state when a planned roadway extension is supposed to go through his laundry and his house. ![]() The Long Walk is a neatly told suspenser about a future killer marathon in which 100 entrants must walk the length of Maine without stopping-anyone who drops is shot where he falls. Plotwise Rage is the weakest, delivering little-and that grossly-on the premise of a psycho high-schooler shooting a female teacher and then holding her class hostage while he vomits up Freudian bellywash. ![]() The four reprints are Rage (1966-71), begun while King was a high school senior The Long Walk (1967-68), done while a college freshman Roadwork (1981), and The Running Man (1982, full-length, written in 72 hours and published untouched). His mask as Richard Bachman, writer of Signet paperback originals, allows him to try his band at straight suspense and one Orwellian suspense-fantasy. Despite a Halloween pub date, these four reprints are not King as a horror novelist. ![]()
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