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3.41 AVERAGE
3.41 AVERAGE
I first started reading Stephen King when I was eleven years old. I think he might have been the first proper author I got into. I remember looking him up, trying to find what book of his I should read next, and I stumbled upon Rage. The website I was reading said it had been banned, which I now know isn't exactly the story. I told my mum about it. She also liked Stephen King, she was the one who handed me Carrie, the first book by him I had read. I asked her about it, I asked her if she had read it, if she knew what about it was so bad that it had to be banned. She told me that yes, she had read it, and in fact, she thought she might have known where it was. She left the room for a couple of minutes, and came back with an old, yellow-paged copy of it, which she had bought at least twenty years earlier. She handed it to me, mumbling something which I was too young to quite grasp about how I should always read banned books, so I could know what it was that they didn't want me to know (there can be a thin line between anarchism and paranoia with persecutory delusions, and boy my mother is a tightrope walker).
I found it quite intense at the time. Once again, I was a child in primary school. The scariest movie I had seen was Coraline. I sort of understood why they didn't want me to read it.
I recently remembered the whole incident, and I decided to to re-read it. Sure, it's edgy. It's not written amazingly: as all other Stephen King novels, it's full of women breasting boobily in the background. It does capture the sentiment of being seventeen and full of anger, anxiety, and confusion. It's nowhere near as bad as I remembered, though. Sure, maybe don't hand it to your eleven year old children. But we're living at a point in time where with a simple google search you can find and read both of the Columbine shooters' journals. I don't think a book where, as someone else has worded it, Holden Caulfield holds the Breakfast Club hostage should be put out of print and made to forget like it is. It's really not that impactful.
I found it quite intense at the time. Once again, I was a child in primary school. The scariest movie I had seen was Coraline. I sort of understood why they didn't want me to read it.
I recently remembered the whole incident, and I decided to to re-read it. Sure, it's edgy. It's not written amazingly: as all other Stephen King novels, it's full of women breasting boobily in the background. It does capture the sentiment of being seventeen and full of anger, anxiety, and confusion. It's nowhere near as bad as I remembered, though. Sure, maybe don't hand it to your eleven year old children. But we're living at a point in time where with a simple google search you can find and read both of the Columbine shooters' journals. I don't think a book where, as someone else has worded it, Holden Caulfield holds the Breakfast Club hostage should be put out of print and made to forget like it is. It's really not that impactful.
emotional
reflective
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
This was originally titled "Getting It On," much to my dismay, since the main character's repeated use of this phrase (you know how Stephen King is) was very distracting to me. I just kept thinking, 'what does he MEAN? What in the world is going on here?'
Rage was okay. Definitely not one of my favorites. For being the very title of the book, we didn't actually see a lot of rage. The majority of the book is comprised of Breakfast Club style confessions by the hostages and Holden Caulfield style stories by the main character.
The ending, though. Oh boy, the ending. I didn't see that coming. Despite this being one of my least favorite King works, I have to admit that it was probably one of my favorite King endings.
Rage was okay. Definitely not one of my favorites. For being the very title of the book, we didn't actually see a lot of rage. The majority of the book is comprised of Breakfast Club style confessions by the hostages and Holden Caulfield style stories by the main character.
The ending, though. Oh boy, the ending. I didn't see that coming. Despite this being one of my least favorite King works, I have to admit that it was probably one of my favorite King endings.
dark
reflective
tense
fast-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
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
dark
slow-paced
Plot or Character Driven:
Character
Am i supposed to feel sorry for this BOZO?
dark
reflective
tense
medium-paced
Strong character development:
No
Loveable characters:
No
Diverse cast of characters:
No
Flaws of characters a main focus:
Complicated
Terminé de leer Rabia de Stephen King es un día. Un libro que te atrapa es bueno, pensarán. No, es más bien cuando en un restaurante te apuras a terminar con las verduras para acabar con ese suplicio de una vez.
Sus dos estrellitas son por la fluidez.
Sus dos estrellitas son por la fluidez.
dark
tense
medium-paced
Plot or Character Driven:
Character
Strong character development:
Yes
Loveable characters:
No
Diverse cast of characters:
N/A
Flaws of characters a main focus:
Yes
For a book that deals with such intense and heavy subject matter, I found it to be rather meh. I liked the whole concept of how these kids should be terrified of Charlie but they actually end up siding with him, but it was just very wtf to me. I mean Charlie is clearly insane. He beat a teacher with a pipe, shot two others, and is holding a classroom hostage at gun point. And yet the kids believed he wouldn’t actually shoot them. Like girl I don’t know who’s crazier. But I think the point might have been for it to show that the other kids are just as mental as him even though they haven’t done the terrible things he’s done. Maybe I’m not intellectual enough to understand I don’t know. It was fine and I thought the idea behind it was clever I guess. The ending confused me though. Like I’m pretty sure the pov’s were switching right..? Between Ted and Charlie…? bro if that’s not what was happening then a lot went right over my head.