Desperation
The Regulators
Desperation Vs The Regulators
Ok here's the poll. So which was the one you liked better. Also let us know which one you read first as that seems to be the deciding factor for a great many people.
I started with Regulators then read Desperation, but I really like Desperation and not so much the Regulators. Good stories both, but Desperation was just so much more.. fluid. It had a better groove.
"And within it, a stairway, perhaps rising to the Godhead itself. Would you dare climb to the top, gunslinger? Could it be that somewhere above all of endless reality, there exists a room?...
You dare not."
Mi him en tow
Mi tow can de lach.
I too read Desperation first and found it to be the better of the two.
XIX
"See the TURTLE of enormous girth,
On his shell he holds the earth.
If you want to run and play,
Come along the BEAM today."
NFA JJG 42-95
Desperation. Hands down. No comparison.
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When one is in agreement with bears one is always correct. (mae)
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I read Desperation first and enjoyed it. A short time later I started The Regulators and read about 1/10th of it and hated it. I put the book down and picked it up >5 years later. I then read it and although I finished it and it was interesting, I still thought Desperation was better.
I read Desperation first and I agree with Jean totally on this one: No comparison. It's using the same characters but that's all these novels have in common.Originally Posted by Jean
I read The Regulators first and, say sorry, I do not much care for it at all. It was very interesting to read these two books and to watch events play out (almost as if watching the same thing happen but on two different levels of the Tower, if you kennit), but I much preferred the story told in Desperation to the one told in The Regulators.
This right here. I don't recall which one I read first as I read both when they came out together. Desperation is one of my King favorites. Easily top 10. The Regulators was just plain horrible. I'll never pick that one back up off the shelf. Bottom 5.
Desperation is my fav. King book of all time. Alot my friends who read King say it's their favorite too. Maybe it's a location thing.
I think we ought to read only the kind of books that wound and stab us. If the book we are reading doesn't wake us up with a blow on the head, what are we reading it for? - Franz Kafka
I haven't read the Regulators, but I really didn't like Desperation at all. I didn't think it was badly written or without good characters, I just find alot of books from that particular era of King's writing, too bleak.
i liked the regulators more. i thought it was weirder and more fucked up. maybe it has something to do with reading it first.
Are they interlinked? Would I like Regulators even if I didn't like Desperation?
Here is a brief description and then a link to a site that has done a very nice comparison.
BE WARNED!
The site does list characters that live in one book and die in the other.
http://users.cybercity.dk/~nmb21186/desreg.htmDesperation vs. The Regulators!
Desperation and The Regulators was published simultaneously, and both novels really center around a new personification of evil that goes by the name of Tak. But Tak isn´t the only 'thing' the two books has in common.
One of the major points of interest between these two books, is King´s use of the characters in each novel.
Here is a little collection I have found...
They are indeed linked. Hard to say as far as your second question goes because they are different stories (mostly).
XIX
"See the TURTLE of enormous girth,
On his shell he holds the earth.
If you want to run and play,
Come along the BEAM today."
NFA JJG 42-95
I read the Regulators first, and at the time of my first reading, it was the one I liked more. But a couple years later, I found the two of them in HC for really cheap, and reread them, and now I like Desperation more. Desperation has actually become one of my favorite King novels.
I'm the second vote for The Regulators. I read it when I was maybe 14 or so and loved loved loved it. I read Desperation about a year later and for some reason I can't remember much of it. I need to do a re-read. Who knows, I may change my mind.
I am Daenerys Stormborn and I will take what is mine. With fire and blood.
Regulators was good, even though it took two pages to describe the summer at the start lol... but Desperation is an amazing book, they don't even compare really.
The Regulators has nothing on Desperation.
I read The Regulators before I read Desperation. I liked both books, but I enjoyed Desperation much more.
I read The Regulators first, and I like a lot of stuff about it more. I like the cartoon characters coming to life and such, and I think I like it better, but as much as I like it, on all honesty, Desperation is probably the better story overall because you find out more about Tak in it.
There's one hole in every revolution, large or small. And it's one word long.. people. No matter how big the idea they all stand under, people are small and weak and cheap and frightened. It's people that kill every revolution.
Thanks for the link RF!! I'll buy Regulators when I get paid this week and then maybe re-read Desperation.
I would send you my paperback, but postage to the UK is silly for a non collectible book.
Here's how big the gap is for me.
1. Desperation is my favorite non Dark Tower King book.
2. I'd be willing to say that The Regulators is my least favorite Bachman book
I liked them both, but Desperation was a better book, in my opinion. That is why I would tell someone to read The Regulators first. I think if I had read them the other way around, I don't think I would have liked The Regulators as much.
What did you all like so much about Desperation? (Those of you counting it as a favourite).
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