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    <body><![CDATA[<strong>Road Work</strong> is the only weak link in this book, although legend has it that <strong>Rage</strong> is out of print finally (probably to King's great relief).  <br/><br/><strong>Rage</strong> - 20 years before high school massacres started in America, King wrote this story of a misunderstood and clearly mentally ill kid going apeshit ...<a href="http://www.goodreads.com/review/show/3451631">more...</a>]]></body>
    
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    <body><![CDATA[I think this was my second or third King book. It collects all but Thinner of the original five Bachman novellas.<br/>&quot;The Running Man&quot; I already reviewed. Better than (and WAY different from) than the movie<br/>&quot;The Long Walk&quot; I also already reviewed. it's one of my favorite s...<a href="http://www.goodreads.com/review/show/2992138">more...</a>]]></body>
    
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    <body><![CDATA[This may be the best thing Stephen King has ever done.  Four short novels, all of them pure gold; &quot;Rage&quot; and &quot;Roadwork&quot; are two of my all-time favorites.  The great thing about King-as-Bachman is that there's never a happy ending, which means that you're never even vaguely sure w...<a href="http://www.goodreads.com/review/show/12830051">more...</a>]]></body>
    
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    <body><![CDATA[First of all, I will say that my thoughts posted in this review will not include my opinions on The Running Man. I skipped reading it with the other stories because I read it by itself recently.<br/><br/>The first story in this book is The Rage. I have heard that this story is why this book is so ...<a href="http://www.goodreads.com/review/show/61084571">more...</a>]]></body>
    
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    <body><![CDATA[That's right, I read Stephen King books. And often? I LIKE THEM...unless they were written after about 1995 or during his drug-addicted 1980s, though there are exceptions (notably, <em>Misery</em>, and the '80s short stories are on the whole pretty ace, probably because many of them were actually written ear...<a href="http://www.goodreads.com/review/show/44866074">more...</a>]]></body>
    
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    <![CDATA[Four early novels that Stephen King wrote under his pseudonym, Richard Bachman: <em>Rage</em> is the story of a high-school show-and-tell session that takes a frightening turn; <em>Roadwork</em> is not a typical Bachman/King tale, charting the disintegration of a man's life though a series of mishaps and circumstances. <em>The Long Walk</em> and <em>The Running Man</em>are set in a near-future America where popular games have fatal consequences.<br/><br/><br/><br/><br/><br/><br/><br/><br/><br/><br/><br/><br/><br/>]]>
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    <body><![CDATA[I originally read this collection of short stories back in high school because I was intrigued that the cheesy sci fi movie &quot;The Running Man&quot; came from a Stephen King book.  This was before I realized what a ripe source Hollywood seems to think King's stories are for screen plays.  In any ...<a href="http://www.goodreads.com/review/show/52393647">more...</a>]]></body>
    
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    <body><![CDATA[You've got to love Wikipedia. <br/><br/>While &quot;taking a break&quot; at work yesterday I was searching King's page to find out some info on his upcoming &quot;Under the Dome.&quot; While reading through the synopses of all his past works, I came across &quot;The Bachman Books,&quot; which cont...<a href="http://www.goodreads.com/review/show/71642991">more...</a>]]></body>
    
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    <body><![CDATA[When I was in middle school, I went through a Stephen King phase...the phase that is inevitable for a adolecent who once was an avid reader of all the <a href="http://www.goodreads.com/author/show/13730.R_L_Stine" title="R.L. Stine">R.L. Stine</a> books such as <em>Goosebumps</em> and <em>Fear Street</em>. <br/><br/>Within the Bachman Books, early works of Stephen King under his orginal pen name, I ...<a href="http://www.goodreads.com/review/show/69834501">more...</a>]]></body>
    
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    <body><![CDATA[This collection contains the first four Bachman books.<br/><br/><em>Rage</em> - a good high school angst story, which got a bad wrap after the Columbine incident.<br/><br/><em>The Long Walk</em> - a very interesting &quot;competition&quot; for national celebrity, which really shows a well-crafted decent into insa...<a href="http://www.goodreads.com/review/show/54631113">more...</a>]]></body>
    
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    <body><![CDATA[I read this book in high school, along with several other King novels.  Very entertaining stories for a teenage boy.  If I read it today, I may have dropped it down to 3 stars, as <em>Roadwork</em> is fairly forgettable and <em>Rage</em> was fairly average, even when read by a high school student.  Of course, <em>Rage</em> wo...<a href="http://www.goodreads.com/review/show/76426289">more...</a>]]></body>
    
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    <body><![CDATA[I want to say that this set of stories affected my adolescent world view more so than anything I had read as a child. I read this book at age 12 and I can still recall 19 years later what I felt at the time. The story &quot;Rage&quot; which predated Columbine by some 22 years but if I had to guess I...<a href="http://www.goodreads.com/review/show/52317137">more...</a>]]></body>
    
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    <body><![CDATA[These four stories were all pretty good. I don't know how he can come up with such wierd stories. Rage was shocking. The long walk made me think first why anyone would ever put themselves into that position and how terrifying it was to follow these characters along their journey until they stop walk...<a href="http://www.goodreads.com/review/show/52267109">more...</a>]]></body>
    
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    <body><![CDATA[I devoured Koontz and King back in middle school and part of high school. In retrospect, I could have spent my time on better books, but these chillers were an escape from things I didn't want to think about, especially at night when I couldn't sleep and my mind twisted my perceptions nauseatingly. ...<a href="http://www.goodreads.com/review/show/47901466">more...</a>]]></body>
    
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    <body><![CDATA[A good collection of stories. The Long Walk is the star of the show and is the story of 100 teens embarking on a walking competition which only one can survive. Rage, I believe, has been withdrawn as it supposedly sets a blue print for any teens who want to shoot up a high school. You'd have thought...<a href="http://www.goodreads.com/review/show/73175840">more...</a>]]></body>
    
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    <![CDATA[The name on the covers was Bachman. But the imagination could only belong to one man. A compelling collection of four spellbinding stories of future shock and suspense - &quot;Rage&quot;, &quot;The Long Walk&quot;, &quot;Roadwork&quot; and &quot;The Running Man&quot; - in which Stephen King also explains 'Why I was Richard Bachman'.]]>
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    <body><![CDATA[The four novellas are<p><em>Rage</em> which is about a student who brings a handgun to school, shoots a teacher in cold blood and then holds the class hostage. The class is okay with that except for one fella.</p><p><em>The Long Walk</em> is about 100 teenagers all under 20 but over 15 years old who have lost their fathers, ta...</p><a href="http://www.goodreads.com/review/show/73119409">more...</a>]]></body>
    
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    <![CDATA[Four of Richard Bachman's eerie works are gathered here in a posthumous edition. They are Rage, a story of stunning psychological horror about an &quot;estra&quot; ordinary high school student; &quot;The Long Walk,&quot; a contest with death; &quot;Roadwork, a strange variation on the theme of &quot;Home Sweet Home&quot;; and &quot;The Running Man,&quot; where you bet your life--literally.]]>
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    <body><![CDATA[Four books in one. Lets break down each book starting with Rage. Rage is a book that takes place in a very small setting. dealing with a school shooting and the events and despair that lead the main character to bring a gun to school. A really good book that paints a very detailed picture of what a ...<a href="http://www.goodreads.com/review/show/25288921">more...</a>]]></body>
    
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    <![CDATA[Four early novels that Stephen King wrote under his pseudonym, Richard Bachman: <em>Rage</em> is the story of a high-school show-and-tell session that takes a frightening turn; <em>Roadwork</em> is not a typical Bachman/King tale, charting the disintegration of a man's life though a series of mishaps and circumstances. <em>The Long Walk</em> and <em>The Running Man</em>are set in a near-future America where popular games have fatal consequences.<br/><br/><br/><br/><br/><br/><br/><br/><br/><br/><br/><br/><br/><br/>]]>
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    <body><![CDATA[I should say here that I'm willing to swap this book on the condition that I get it back, but not sell it.  <br/>In King's earlier years, he was a big name in the horror genre, and was churning out novels faster than anyone else.  He had published a handful under a pseudonym because the publishers ...<a href="http://www.goodreads.com/review/show/2146487">more...</a>]]></body>
    
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    <![CDATA[The Bachman Books]]>
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    <![CDATA[Four early novels that Stephen King wrote under his pseudonym, Richard Bachman: <em>Rage</em> is the story of a high-school show-and-tell session that takes a frightening turn; <em>Roadwork</em> is not a typical Bachman/King tale, charting the disintegration of a man's life though a series of mishaps and circumstances. <em>The Long Walk</em> and <em>The Running Man</em>are set in a near-future America where popular games have fatal consequences.<br/><br/><br/><br/><br/><br/><br/><br/><br/><br/><br/><br/><br/><br/>]]>
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    <body><![CDATA[The Long Walk: Let me state for the record that I'm a King fan. The man can tell a story. Now, his more recent stuff sometimes blows hard and he can't often actually finish the story, but hey - the journey is usually worth it. And I think the Bachman books are some of his very best.<br/><br/>I lik...<a href="http://www.goodreads.com/review/show/1665883">more...</a>]]></body>
    
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    <![CDATA[Four early novels that Stephen King wrote under his pseudonym, Richard Bachman: <em>Rage</em> is the story of a high-school show-and-tell session that takes a frightening turn; <em>Roadwork</em> is not a typical Bachman/King tale, charting the disintegration of a man's life though a series of mishaps and circumstances. <em>The Long Walk</em> and <em>The Running Man</em>are set in a near-future America where popular games have fatal consequences.<br/><br/><br/><br/><br/><br/><br/><br/><br/><br/><br/><br/><br/><br/>]]>
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    <body><![CDATA[I was an extremely late bloomer, relatively speaking, when I got into reading. In fact, as I was growing up, I was never encouraged to read except by teachers, who made it feel like a chore and unenjoyable. Well, enter my high school freshman year. I decided to &quot;discipline&quot; myself by &quot;...<a href="http://www.goodreads.com/review/show/1421216">more...</a>]]></body>
    
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