What Is The Best Bachman Book?

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What is the best Bachman Book?


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kingricefan

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Just type this>> "@" and then start typing "Mod" and a list of names will pop-up, click on Moderator and Bob's yer uncle!
(Don't worry though, I'll go back and chuck one into a previous post...)
I saw what ya did up there! Thanks! =D See, you're expecting me to remember that little ol' squiggly looki' thing, too. Oh, boy, the pressure, the pressure.....It's called a hash tag, right? I know a thing or two....haha!
 

EMTP513

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I've never read any of them, but I know what all of them are about because my older sister's read ALL of them - even Rage, which I'm really upset to learn I didn't have a chance to read before they took it off the market. I was going to get around to reading Richard Bachman books after I was finished with most of the Stephen King books. Unfortunately my sister doesn't know what she did with all her Bachman books.
 

FlakeNoir

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I've never read any of them, but I know what all of them are about because my older sister's read ALL of them - even Rage, which I'm really upset to learn I didn't have a chance to read before they took it off the market. I was going to get around to reading Richard Bachman books after I was finished with most of the Stephen King books. Unfortunately my sister doesn't know what she did with all her Bachman books.
The collection is pretty easy to find in second-hand book stores usually. Good luck. :)
 

AnnaMarie

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The link between King and his shadow writer was exposed after a Washington, D.C. 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.[2]

This led to a press release heralding Bachman's "death" — supposedly from "cancer of the pseudonym", and an article written by Brown in the Washington Post.[3] At the time of the announcement in 1985, King was working on Misery, which he had planned to release as a Bachman book.

You are a sharp one kingricefan! You know your SK trivia that's for sure :encouragement:

I knew King wrote Thinner, but I had not connections. Two paragraphs, and I knew it was King. Months later, one of my co-workers treated me to lunch to show me the news article. He was so impressed that I was right.
 

fljoe0

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"Roadwork". It was if you could almost feel the pain of the author as he wrote the story.

My favorite is The Long Walk but I thought Roadwork was an excellent slow burner. I was a little surprised to hear SK say he wasn't very fond of it. Of course, he wasn't fond of Carrie either so what does he know? ;-D
 

Blake

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The link between King and his shadow writer was exposed after a Washington, D.C. 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.[2]

This led to a press release heralding Bachman's "death" — supposedly from "cancer of the pseudonym", and an article written by Brown in the Washington Post.[3] At the time of the announcement in 1985, King was working on Misery, which he had planned to release as a Bachman book.

You are a sharp one kingricefan! You know your SK trivia that's for sure :encouragement:
Is it true that Stephen King wrote Misery while living in England?