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Rage by Stephen King
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Rage (original 1977; edition 1977)

by Stephen King

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Tilvr̆elsen gr̄ ikke rigtig godt for Charlie. Han gr̄ i gymnasiet og fr̄ psykologhjl̆p, fordi det kniber med at styre temperamentet. En dag er alting uudholdeligt, og han tager sin fars pistol....
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Rage by Richard Bachman (1977)

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    artturnerjr: For those who are interested in learning why RAGE is the only Stephen King (aka Richard Bachman) novel that is out of print.
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This reads just as I expected it to – very early Stephen King. It’s weird, it’s graphically violent, it f***s with your head, but it has a lame wtf ending and is not quite absorbing enough to prevent the reader from thinking how unlikely it is that real people would behave this way. Not the murderous main character, of course, but the other students who become complicit as he holds them hostage. The MC is unfortunately all too plausible. King has said that he started writing this book as a teenager, and that he drew from his own angst, loneliness, confusion, and, yes, rage in writing it. And several real-life teenagers identified so strongly with it that they drew inspiration from the novel in committing their own school shootings. Which is why this novel has been allowed to go out of print.

My own copy is part of a tatty second-hand paperback of The Bachman Books, a monstrously sized four novel collection. I read this for the 2018 Halloween Bingo square Genre: Horror: anything that fits into the horror genre. If a boy going on a school shooting rampage and setting up his fellow students to turn on one another in their own fear and rage isn’t horror, I don’t know what is. ( )
  Doodlebug34 | Jan 1, 2024 |
I suppose some hubbub has been made about this book. I started reading Stephen King recently, and have been reading his stuff in order, mainly because I learned that the first book I read, 11-22-63, made references to IT. So I didn't have a particular interest in this book and expected to dislike it more than I did. I thought the same about Carrie (which I ended up liking quite a bit), and this book shares some themes, like bullying.

This is a dark coming-of-age and horror novel in disguise, and not for the reason you would think. The reason I chose 3 stars instead of 4 is because I didn't fully buy or believe that ultimate horror. In the end, this book probably didn't need to be about a school shooting--without that, there is the central and classic story of kids of different social groups being forced together. Having just finished The Shining recently, this seemed less polished, but it was also written in first person. ( )
  bannedforaday | Oct 22, 2023 |
This was not what I had been expecting, however, it was very disturbing. ( )
  CaitlinDaugherty | Aug 28, 2023 |
I knew this book was pulled from publication by Stephen King and it's easy to understand why. That being said, I enjoyed it more than I had expected. This book had great characters and could have been greatly expanded upon on that alone. I believe he wrote this in high school which makes it all the more remarkable. Bit of a revenge fantasy but an interesting and short book. ( )
  mindrot | Aug 22, 2023 |
Eh. Kind of hooks you at the start (typical of any King story, basically) but gets tedious. It doesn't leave a great taste in your mouth - even King says in the introduction that he was young and cynical enough to believe in unhappy endings and Freudian explanations for a kid killing his teacher... I'm not saying I'm against opinions in books, it's just that every other sentence was the character (and maybe King) spouting his ideas about the world.

That said, he was only 18 or 19 or so, and it is definitely well written. You can really see the crackle of the prose and authenticity that King would become known for.

It is a very 70s novel, I should add. Lots of virginal girls wearing frumpy sweaters crossing their legs and saying, "humph!"

Well, not humph, but y'know. Being frumpy. And of course there is the class whore who smokes. This is a mediocre review, I'm just stream of consciousness tying my thoughts a few hours after finishing.

I guess it SORT OF sucks that this is out of print (due to school shootings) but I also don't think the modern world is missing out on a great King novel. Plus, you can find one in almost any used bookstore. ( )
  J.E.Schier | Oct 12, 2022 |
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So you understand that when we increase the number of variables, the axioms themselves never change.
- Mrs. Jean Underwood

Teacher, teacher, ring the bell, My lessons all to you I'll tell, And when my day at school is through, I'll know more than aught I knew.
- Children's rhyme, c. 1880
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Tilvr̆elsen gr̄ ikke rigtig godt for Charlie. Han gr̄ i gymnasiet og fr̄ psykologhjl̆p, fordi det kniber med at styre temperamentet. En dag er alting uudholdeligt, og han tager sin fars pistol....

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