Enraged

Jules3155 said:

Wowsers. I think the King was in his Hustler phase when he wrote this one. I read somewhere that he wrote this when he was in high school, which explains the "sex overload." I think it is amazing that he wrote this at such a young age though. It is very intelligently written. I enjoyed it immensely.

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GNTLGNT said:

...it was published in September of '77 and King was born in 1947, so he wasn't in high school-and I don't know about you but "sex overload" is and was pretty common in high school as the hormones run rampant....

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AnnaMarie said:

It was one of the Bachman books, and was written long before it was published. I recall reading he was a teen when he wrote it, though I can't find where I read that.

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Jules3155 said:

I found it! He mentions it in the Introduction of The Bachman Books. I was beginning to think I was losing it... ;-)

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GNTLGNT said:

Rage, which drew heavily upon his own frustrations and pains as a high school student. In an article on the ominous writings of Virginia Tech shooter Seung-Hui Cho for Entertainment Weekly, King said: "Certainly in this sensitized day and age, my own college writing – including a short story called "Cain Rose Up" and the novel Rage – would have raised red flags, and I'm certain someone would have tabbed me as mentally ill because of them...."

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