A review by lesserjoke
The Regulators by Stephen King

1.0

Too many characters with not enough characterization, which made it hard to keep track of them or even care when they kept getting gunned down. It doesn't help that most of the characters share names -- but not much else -- with people in Stephen King's other book Desperation, which theoretically tells a parallel story but is largely independent. As a result, this novel felt more like King was playing with action figures than using characters to drive a cohesive story (which is ironically appropriate, I suppose). His depiction of a character with autism was also wildly unrealistic and offensive, in a way that suggests the author did no research on the subject before writing. So really, not much to recommend here at all.