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3.41 AVERAGE
3.41 AVERAGE
dark
slow-paced
Plot or Character Driven:
Character
Strong character development:
No
Loveable characters:
No
Diverse cast of characters:
N/A
Flaws of characters a main focus:
Yes
Rage
By Stephen King as Richard Bachman
Psychological thriller, horror
My rating: ⭐️💫
Charlie Decker pulls out a pistol and kills a teacher. This leads to him taking a classroom of students as hostages.
During this afternoon, stories come out about what led Charlie to do this, as well as more details about his classmates.
❤️ I don't honestly have anything good to say about this book. It's short and I was able to read it in a day. Any longer and I'd have DNF.
💔 This book is boring. Charlie is boring and it just felt like a dark Breakfast Club scene due to a gun being involved. I read through til the end hoping it got better, but there was only one chapter that held my interest just over 1/3 through.
🎀 This book has been out of publication due to school shootings. If you've been through a shooting or hostage situation, I'd definitely steer clear. If you haven't, I don't feel like this book had any tense scenes or felt any fear. I have a pretty strong fear of shootings and was a little worried how I'd react reading this, but it never provided any strong feelings.
This book is hard to find a physical copy of, and honestly it's just not worth the money unless you stumble across it at a second-hand shop.
By Stephen King as Richard Bachman
Psychological thriller, horror
My rating: ⭐️💫
Charlie Decker pulls out a pistol and kills a teacher. This leads to him taking a classroom of students as hostages.
During this afternoon, stories come out about what led Charlie to do this, as well as more details about his classmates.
❤️ I don't honestly have anything good to say about this book. It's short and I was able to read it in a day. Any longer and I'd have DNF.
💔 This book is boring. Charlie is boring and it just felt like a dark Breakfast Club scene due to a gun being involved. I read through til the end hoping it got better, but there was only one chapter that held my interest just over 1/3 through.
🎀 This book has been out of publication due to school shootings. If you've been through a shooting or hostage situation, I'd definitely steer clear. If you haven't, I don't feel like this book had any tense scenes or felt any fear. I have a pretty strong fear of shootings and was a little worried how I'd react reading this, but it never provided any strong feelings.
This book is hard to find a physical copy of, and honestly it's just not worth the money unless you stumble across it at a second-hand shop.
dark
slow-paced
Plot or Character Driven:
Character
Strong character development:
N/A
Loveable characters:
No
Diverse cast of characters:
No
Flaws of characters a main focus:
Yes
Content Warnings
Graphic: Gun violence
medium-paced
dark
medium-paced
Welp, I can see why Stephen King pulled this from being published further.
I don’t think the topic of a school shooting is off limits for a novel, that being said it needs to be done carefully. I will take into account the time of release, when it wasn’t so common place, which is sad to have to write at all.
My biggest gripe is the characters. For a bunch of young people that are being held hostage in a school, by a fellow classmate, they don’t really act like people. I know stress does some wild things to people but they’re all just sitting around laughing? You only have one character that is rivalling the main character? It just felt super out of place.
It definitely has a breakfast club feeling, misfit students telling tales. Just tonally felt so weird in comparison to the setting.
Completely taking the plot out of the equation, I think it might be the worst written King book I’ve read.
I don’t think the topic of a school shooting is off limits for a novel, that being said it needs to be done carefully. I will take into account the time of release, when it wasn’t so common place, which is sad to have to write at all.
My biggest gripe is the characters. For a bunch of young people that are being held hostage in a school, by a fellow classmate, they don’t really act like people. I know stress does some wild things to people but they’re all just sitting around laughing? You only have one character that is rivalling the main character? It just felt super out of place.
It definitely has a breakfast club feeling, misfit students telling tales. Just tonally felt so weird in comparison to the setting.
Completely taking the plot out of the equation, I think it might be the worst written King book I’ve read.
King has since shelved the publication of this book, and for good reason. But besides how sick individuals may have used/interpreted/been influenced by this novel, it is also just... bad. Obviously hard to read in the 2020's after many many years of school shootings, but it almost seems like a weird manifesto itself, with how the students somehow start switching to the shooter's side (which is also way unbelievable). It's off-putting and in poor taste. Wouldn't recommend reading now.
It's a fairly good Stephen King book, which is to say, just below average for Mr. King.
At first, I didn't really like the protagonist (he is a school shooter, after all), but the plot the book is working through is really intruiging and more subtle then I expected, which was more of a thriller. But this book being written almost half a century ago, there will be some discrepencies in what would be written in this day and age.
I kind of understand why this book isn't being published anymore, school shootings being so prevalent. But on the other I wouldn't really understand how potential school shooters would emphasize with this book? (Then again I never have been, nor have attempted to be, a school shooter. So my understanding on that subject is a bit limited). Because as far as shootings go, it is a bit lacking. It's more a psychological book. Exploring minds. Not really a pro-hung-go Let's kill all the people! book. Still, this part it does well, and it's not meant as a criticism at all.
At first, I didn't really like the protagonist (he is a school shooter, after all), but the plot the book is working through is really intruiging and more subtle then I expected, which was more of a thriller. But this book being written almost half a century ago, there will be some discrepencies in what would be written in this day and age.
I kind of understand why this book isn't being published anymore, school shootings being so prevalent. But on the other I wouldn't really understand how potential school shooters would emphasize with this book? (Then again I never have been, nor have attempted to be, a school shooter. So my understanding on that subject is a bit limited). Because as far as shootings go, it is a bit lacking. It's more a psychological book. Exploring minds. Not really a pro-hung-go Let's kill all the people! book. Still, this part it does well, and it's not meant as a criticism at all.
I don’t know how to review this one
I understand why it’s not in print anymore, it’s deeply disturbing. And at times confusing.
I understand why it’s not in print anymore, it’s deeply disturbing. And at times confusing.
dark
dark
emotional
tense
medium-paced
Plot or Character Driven:
Character
Strong character development:
No
Loveable characters:
No
Diverse cast of characters:
No
Flaws of characters a main focus:
Yes
dark
funny
reflective
medium-paced
Plot or Character Driven:
Character
Strong character development:
No
Loveable characters:
Complicated
Diverse cast of characters:
Yes
Flaws of characters a main focus:
Yes