Bracket #1: Rage (1977)

[mae]

Rage, 1977
http://www.thedarktower.org/gallery/data/510/medium/Rage_face.jpg

Please vote for Rage (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Rage_(novel)) using the following scale:

5: I loved it
4: It was good
3: Average
2: Only so-so
1: I didn't like it

If you haven't read this book yet, please vote Never Read. Feel free to discuss your votes in this thread.

[Sam]

It was good. I understood this book better than I wish I could've, but it wasn't the best of the Bachmans.

[Hannah]

What Sam said.

[flaggwalkstheline]

the bachman books are some of my favorites so 5
:rock:

[BROWNINGS CHILDE]

This one gets a 5 from me, as it did last year. I was very dissapointed that this book was last place last year. I am hoping that it does better this year.

[Jean]

a definite 1 from bears

[BROWNINGS CHILDE]

a definite 1 from bears

:arg::nope:

[Jean]

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[Brice]

<_<

[flaggwalkstheline]

just because it's a touchy subject doesnt make it not good, all the bachman books have this live-wire emotional kick in the teeth aspect to em, and some of them hit waaaay to close to home for many people's comfort zones:shoot::panic:

[Daghain]

I gave it a five. I think it's a shame King took it out of print.

[Jean]

just because it's a touchy subject doesnt make it not good
who ever said it did?


all the bachman books have this live-wire emotional kick in the teeth aspect to em, and some of them hit waaaay to close to home for many people's comfort zones
Oh, come on. Rage is very far from being in any respect more "kicking in the teeth" than lots of books - great, good, mediocre or just plain poor (the "live-wire" topic by itself doesn't make a book great, you see) - written by mankind. In this particular case every word of it rings false to me, and the whole thing seems weak, unconvincing, pretentious, and psychologically ridiculous - in a word, a big lie from the beginning to the end. I don't appreciate it in books.

(any further discussion in the Rage thread, please)

[alinda]

Sorry , but I can bearly remeber the story. Pretty unremerkable
for me, and yet I gave it a 2 ...so so.:orely:

[Alex]

4

[pathoftheturtle]

Dumb, adolescent fantasy, but if you can get into it, it's distinctively written. It's really not so hard to believe that this is the author who grew up to write The Stand.

[divemaster]

I liked the story well enough--a good read. However, there's really no depth of character. Compare Rage to, say, Apt Pupil. The latter is much more developed as far as getting into the mind of the boy.

[mae]

The poll has closed. Rage has earned a FAS (final average score) of 4.000000000 or 80.00%, placing 4th in this bracket. It will not be moving on to Round 2. In 2009, Rage placed 5th (last) with a FAS of 2.977777777, so it gained 1.022222223 (+34.33%) this time.