The Regulators - Softcover

Stephen King,Richard Bachman,Stephen King

3.72

84,690 ratings by Goodreads

Softcover

ISBN 10: 034095227X ISBN 13: 9780340952276

Publisher: Hodder & Stoughton, 2007

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Mystery/SuspenseLarge Print Edition* A New York Times BestsellerCall him Bachman or call him King, the bard of Bangor is going to hit the charts hard and vast with this white-knuckler knockout. starred, Publishers WeeklyThe action is fierce and Bachmans imagination proves boundless. Library JournalEverything is normal on a summer day in Wentworth, Ohio the paperboy is making his rounds, frisbees are flying, barbecues are being contemplated. The only thing that doesnt quite fit is the red van idling up the hill on Poplar Street. Soon it will roll and the killing will begin. And by the time night falls, the survivors of Poplar Street will find themselves in another world. . .

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Review:

An evil creature called Tak uses the imagination of an autistic boy to shift a residential street in small-town Ohio into a world so bizarre and brutal that only a child could think it up. It's as two-dimensional and gaudy as a kid's comic book, but for this reviewer, The Regulators is a gripping adventure tale about what happens when a mind fixated on TV (especially old Westerns and a cartoon called MotoKops 2200) runs amok. As Michael Collins writes in Necrofile, "[Stephen] King offers his readers a glimpse of the true evil of popular culture ... which has no design or intent, only an empty need to sustain itself. King is, I think, about the canniest observer of what America is, and that he generally writes horror ought to give us pause from time to time."

About the Author:

Stephen King, the world's bestselling novelist, was educated at the University of Maine at Orono. He lives with his wife, the novelist Tabitha King, and their children in Bangor, Maine.

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