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booksandbraids 's review for:
Rage
by Richard Bachman
I really don't know what to think about this book... Reading it today in 2023 is I'm sure a very different experience from someone reading it in 1977 when it was first published. Stephen King, I am sure, had no idea how common and prevalent school shootings would become in America when he wrote and published this book. That is what makes it so scary- the fact that this happens ALL the time. At one point in the story, it said "Mr. Vance didn't know what was happening. I don't think any of them did" (pg 30 in the collected edition of Bachman books that I read). That would NEVER be the case today.
I can understand why Stephen King asked for this book to be taken out of print. Learning about that fact is actually what made me read this book when I did. If I want to read everything ever published by Stephen King, I wanted to read this while I could still find it. “After the 1997 incident, King decided to allow Rage to fall out of print in the United States, and was only available as part of the collection The Bachman Books, though new editions of it don’t include it anymore.” My library had a copy of the Bachman books from 1985. I did not want to risk not reading this for years only to find out that those copies are no longer available.
I'm sure I missed some of the meaning within it, but to me, it was a story of why you shouldn't be an asshole to people because you have no idea who might snap because of it. Most of the time Charlie was obviously insane, but there were a couple of parts that made you feel bad for him.And then how everyone treated Ted at the end? They all in their own way snapped.
I can understand why Stephen King asked for this book to be taken out of print. Learning about that fact is actually what made me read this book when I did. If I want to read everything ever published by Stephen King, I wanted to read this while I could still find it. “After the 1997 incident, King decided to allow Rage to fall out of print in the United States, and was only available as part of the collection The Bachman Books, though new editions of it don’t include it anymore.” My library had a copy of the Bachman books from 1985. I did not want to risk not reading this for years only to find out that those copies are no longer available.
I'm sure I missed some of the meaning within it, but to me, it was a story of why you shouldn't be an asshole to people because you have no idea who might snap because of it. Most of the time Charlie was obviously insane, but there were a couple of parts that made you feel bad for him.