Richard Bachman
Paperback | Pages: 131 pages Rating: 3.78 | 31727 Users | 1769 Reviews
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| Original Title: | Rage |
| ISBN: | 0451076451 (ISBN13: 9780451076458) |
| Edition Language: | English |
| Characters: | Charlie Decker, Carol Granger, Sandra Cross, Ted Jones, John "Pig Pen" Dano, George Yannick, Sylvia Ragan, Susan Brooks, Grace Stanner, Dicky Cable, Corky Herald, Irma Bates, Don Grace |
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A disturbed high-school student with authority problems kills one of his teachers and takes the rest of his class hostage. Over the course of one long, tense and unbearable hot afternoon, Charlie Decker explains what led him to this drastic sequence of events, while at the same time deconstructing the personalities of his classmates, forcing each one to justify his or her existence.Identify Based On Books Rage
| Title | : | Rage |
| Author | : | Richard Bachman |
| Book Format | : | Paperback |
| Book Edition | : | First Edition |
| Pages | : | Pages: 131 pages |
| Published | : | September 6th 1977 by Signet |
| Categories | : | Horror. Fiction. Thriller |
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........Sad and Frightening........RAGE is the story of a disturbed child....who becomes a disturbed teen....who acts out on his frustrations by taking a hand gun to school his senior year, taking the life of his algebra teacher, and holding his class hostage for several hours. (no spoiler here)........In the midst of all the chaos, keeping school officials and police at bay, Charlie shares a few tales of his abusive home life, his encounters with bullies, a sex episode, and strongly requestsI don't know how to dislike Stephen King.
Hmmmmmm...... I have very mixed thoughts on this one.
Though a reasonably good piece for a teenager to have written (apparently King started writing this as a teenager), a lot of immaturity still shows through.Despite the fact that I could not manage to build up any empathy with the main character (the killer) Charlie Decker, Charlie simply seemed too normal in his general thought processes to appear phsychotic. He simply came across as a spoilt, extremely immature kid - a product of the typical syndrome of the military father and over-indulgent
Written under the pseudonym "Richard Bachman" and pulled from the shelves by its author, The Rage is a hard book to nail. Most of the Bachman books are flashier; even Running Man has an explosive finish and makes its social statements more deliberately. And heck, it's hard enough to find a copy. After it was found in the locker of a school shooter, most people dismissed it as violent trash. It isn't.It is the story of a school shooter who takes a classroom hostage, but the violence isn't
RAGEWhile he was a senior in high school Stephen King began a novel called, Getting It On. In the intro to a collection called, The Bachman Books, (four novels king originally published under the pen name Richard Bachman) King says he found the manuscript moldering away in a box in the basement of his home in 1970. He thought it was worth finishing and he did... almost got it published two years before Carrie was finally accepted. Then later, still thinking it was worth publishing he decided to
Holy big balls! Good thing they have meds that kind of character.
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