Stephen King - Rage

I'm reading all of Stephen King's fiction in publication order, and I've now reached the first of the Bachman books. Rage is probably King's most notorious novel. It's been out of print for decades. It's about a teenager who brings a gun into school, shoots his teacher, and holds his class hostage, and through the 80s and 90s copies of it turned up in the lockers of real school shooters in the US. King asked his publisher to let it go out of print so that it couldn't inspire anyone else, which means it's now quite hard to get hold of. This is my second time reading it. I first read it two years ago, and according to my reading spreadsheet I gave it a 6 out of 10. This time it's a 5. I couldn't remember anything about what I thought of it first time round, which is maybe a review in itself, so I dug out my reading journal from 2024. Here's what I wrote on the 13th of July: Rage was good but not great. It doesn't read like King, probably due to being in first person, which is unusual…

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