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Led Poplar Street Up until now it's been a nice place to live The idling red van around the corner is about to change all that Let the battle against evil begin Here comeThe Regulators.

characters ☆ The Regulators Stephen King pseudonymAt the beginning of Stephen King's career the general view among publishers was that an author was limited to one book per year since publishing would be unacceptable to the public King therefore wanted to write under another name in order to increase his publication without over saturating the market for the King brand He convinced his publisher Signet Books to print these novels under a pseudonymIn his introduction to The Bachman Books King states that adopting the nom de plume Bachman was also an attempt to make sense out of his career and try to answer the uestion of whether his success was due to talent or luck He says he deliberately released the Bachman novels with as little marketing presence as possible and did his best to load the dice against Bachman King concludes that he has yet to find an answer to the talent versus luck uestion as he felt he was outed as Bachman too early to know The Bachman book Thinner sold copies during its initial run—and then ten times as many when it was revealed that Bachman was in fact KingThe pseudonym King originally selected Gus Pillsbury is King's maternal grandfather's name but at the last moment King changed it to Richard Bachman Richard is a tribute to crime author Donald E Westlake's long running pseudonym Richard Stark The surname Stark was later used in King's novel The Dark Half in which an author's malevolent pseudonym George Stark comes to life Bachman was inspired by Bachman–Turner Overdrive a rock and roll band King was listening to at the time his publisher asked him to choose a pseudonym on the spotKing provided biographical details for Bachman initially in the about the author blurbs in the early novels Known facts about Bachman were that he was born in New York served a four year stint in the Coast Guard which he then followed with ten years in the merchant marine Bachman finally settled down in rural central New Hampshire where he ran a medium sized dairy farm writing at night His fifth novel was dedicated to his wife Claudia Inez Bachman who also received credit for the bogus author photo on the book jacket Other facts about the author were revealed in publicity dispatches from Bachman's publishers the Bachmans had one child a boy who died in an unfortunate Stephen King ish type accident at the age of six when he fell through a well and drowned In a brain tumour was discovered near the base of Bachman's brain; tricky surgery removed it After Bachman's true identity was revealed later publicity dispatches and about the author blurbs revealed that Bachman died suddenly in late of cancer of the pseudonym a rare form of schizonomiaKing dedicated Bachman's early books— Rage The Long Walk Roadwork and The Running Man —to people close to him The link between King and his shadow writer was exposed after a Washington DC bookstore clerk Steve Brown noted similarities between the writing styles of King and Bachman Brown located publisher's records at the Library of Congress which included a document naming King as the author of one of Bachman's novels Brown wrote to King's publishers with a copy of the documents he had uncovered and asked them what to do Two weeks later King telephoned Brown personally and suggested he write an article about how he discovered the truth allowing himself to be interviewed King has taken full ownership of the Bachman name on numerous occasions as with the republication of the first four Bachman titles as The Bachman Books Four Early Novels by Stephen King in The introduction titled Why I Was Bachman details the whole BachmanKing storySource.

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  • megs_bookrack

    characters ☆ The Regulators

    characters ☆ The Regulators The Regulators45 stars rounded upFor the residents of Poplar Street in suburban Wentworth Ohio July 15 1996 started off like any other Summer day The paperboy is

  • Carol

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    characters ☆ The Regulators The Regulators35 Stars It's a summer afternoon in Wentworth Ohio and on Poplar Street everything's normal The paperboy is making his rounds; the Carver kids are bickering at the co

  • Calista

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    characters ☆ The Regulators The RegulatorsI have to admit I did not resonate with this book at all I loved Desperation and this was not for me I rarely like a book he publishes under the Bachman name only 2 of his novellas are things that I like Weird right It is like he writes stories differently as Bachman but still Stephen King

  • Edward Lorn

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    characters ☆ The Regulators The RegulatorsI would go out on a limb and say that King fans that do not actively love this book have forgotten the face of their father At the very least they've completely forgotten the joys of being young and imaginative And I suppose it depends on how you view the necessity of maturity whether or not you believe that's an insult How I intend those statements do not matter It's how you perceive them that counts and that is out of my handsThe Regulators is one of King's best books It showcases all of King's strengths in one tight package character development pacing odditi

  • Chandra Claypool (wherethereadergrows)

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    characters ☆ The Regulators The RegulatorsReading the Regulators after 20 years was like reverting back to my childhood I absolutely remember why I adore this book Things get crazy and you're left wondering what in the hell is actually happening and things start happening right at the get go As I was reading I was like yep yep yep I remember that and THAT but what about THIS Oh yeah that's Desperation Haha I do like it when books incorporate different types of reads such as articles journal entries drawings etc and this one definitely does that giving us a bigger picture of how everything evolves I feel like KingBachman has a tendency to like things that lay dormant and come out with a vengeanceIt's not until the last few scenes where things go up

  • Ron

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    characters ☆ The Regulators The RegulatorsWentworth Ohio Desperation Nevada 2000 miles between I Googled it Sort of cause these two places don’t really exist – until you open the pages of this book where the weird becomes scary the scary gets weird and an ancient evil entity by the name of Tak takes over a once ordinary residential streetBut what I like most about reading Stephen King is the thing that was semi missing here my complete investment in the characters he creates by the way and I think most know t

  • Ashley Daviau

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    characters ☆ The Regulators The RegulatorsThis book made me feel like I was reading King for the first time and falling in love with his writing all over again I know this is a Bachman story but it just reeks of King to me Th

  • Wayne Barrett

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    characters ☆ The Regulators The RegulatorsActual 35Maybe if I had read this before I read Desperation I would have liked it That seems to be the consensus from many of the other reviews I read Anyway having read Desperation prior to The Regulators I was not able to enjoy this book nearly as much We're pretty much dealing with the same bad guy and the same characters only told from a different place and from a different perspective It's not that I don't like cross overs or stories that tie in together; I actually love it and King is a master at it My problem was the actions and dialogue among some of the characters during the course of the story I think if it had been presented with a little seriousness and drama that it would have made a much greater impression In numerous scenarios among terri

  • Thomas Strömquist

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    characters ☆ The Regulators The RegulatorsIn the end this book picked up and is worth three stars I think This and the companion piece; Desperation is not among the King's triumphant achievements though First I'm having real troubles understanding the idea with a Bachman tie in to a King book at this late date Even if even the late Bachma

  • Benjamin Thomas

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    characters ☆ The Regulators The RegulatorsI read than 150 novels each year and have read most of King's stuff Obviously with so much output from one writer there are bound to be hits and misses This one was a miss in my opinion but there is still enough here to make it worth the readI had already read Desperation the companion book to this volume and came away with the feeling that I had just experienced a pretty good King novel It also was far from his best but I enjoyed it nonetheless So naturally I turned to this book The Regulators hoping for a similar experience Stephen King is well known for marketing gimmickry pushing the envelope in the publishing b