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Rage

Stephen King, Richard Bachman

3.41 AVERAGE

tristealegre's review against another edition

5.0

Brutal

megantronx's review against another edition

5.0

dark emotional sad tense fast-paced

Plot or Character Driven: Character

Strong character development: Yes

Loveable characters: Complicated

Diverse cast of characters: Yes

Flaws of characters a main focus: Yes

shosho74's review

3.75

dark sad tense slow-paced

rebepi's review against another edition

4.0

dark sad tense medium-paced

Plot or Character Driven: Character

Strong character development: Complicated

Loveable characters: Complicated

Diverse cast of characters: No

Flaws of characters a main focus: Yes

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frackie's review against another edition

2.0

Mixed feelings about this one. The confrontations littered though this novel all felt like some type of fantasy one thinks about in the shower but would never confess to another. They don't really hit as much as they probably did in Stephen's mind. Stephen's over descriptive writing was almost overbearing in this one. There were times I liked the book and other times I utterly despised it.

There was an offhand comment that annoyed me. "They looked at me like they were trying to see how much hair grew on my asshole and whether they could scalp it." In relation to a group of native americans. Definitely could tell this was written in the 1970's.

This book needed a good cleaning. The arrangement of the flashbacks in this novel confused me. Some of them felt unneeded and the tension would have helped if they were more strictly tied to the events happening with the hostages being held in the classroom.

This book didn't make me feel anything. That's the worst thing about it.

tayrod4594's review against another edition

4.0

challenging dark emotional mysterious sad tense fast-paced

Plot or Character Driven: Plot

Strong character development: Yes

Loveable characters: No

Diverse cast of characters: No

Flaws of characters a main focus: Yes

sapph's review against another edition

1.5

dark emotional reflective tense medium-paced

Plot or Character Driven: Character

Strong character development: Complicated

Loveable characters: No

Diverse cast of characters: No

Flaws of characters a main focus: Yes

the main character is insufferable who complains about everything in a facade to be deep and intelligent. he thinks he’s better than everyone and he justifies the bad things he does because of his rough family. while i don’t mind flawed main characters, it feels like his character development went no where.

the way that the girls were described and written about was awful. they were barely developed as characters and overly sexualised for no reason. i know the protagonist is a teenage boy but the writing screams ‘just another male author who doesn’t know how to write female characters properly’.

the way that the teenage characters acted and talked seemed unrealistic to how they would actually behave in a hostage situation. it’s so jarring reading how they so quickly fall for the protagonist’s charm and root for him when there’s no evidence why they should.