Rage, 1977
Please vote for Rage 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.
5: I loved it
4: It was good
3: Average
2: Only so-so
1: I didn't like it
Never Read
Bracket #1: Rage (1977)
Rage, 1977
Please vote for Rage 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.
It was good. I understood this book better than I wish I could've, but it wasn't the best of the Bachmans.
Margaret Emmie Mackey Catoe, you are, have been, and always will be my soulmate, and I love you.
Con todo mi corazon, por todo de mis dias. And I always will, in this life and into the next.
August 2, 1947 - September 24, 2010
What Sam said.
A true firewasp ninja would never wear such a ridiculous sweater.
There's logic in nonsense.
Give me all the bacon and eggs you have.
the bachman books are some of my favorites so 5
if the worlds gonna end then let's get it over with, i got shit to do
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.
Sloth Love Chunk
a definite 1 from bears
Ask not what bears can do for you, but what you can do for bears. (razz)
When one is in agreement with bears one is always correct. (mae)
bears are back!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
Originally Posted by Jean
Sloth Love Chunk
Ask not what bears can do for you, but what you can do for bears. (razz)
When one is in agreement with bears one is always correct. (mae)
bears are back!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
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
if the worlds gonna end then let's get it over with, i got shit to do
I gave it a five. I think it's a shame King took it out of print.
"People, especially children, aren't measured by their IQ. What's important about them is whether they're good or bad, and these children are bad." ~ Alan Bernard
"You needn't die happy when your day comes, but you must die satisfied, for you have lived your life from beginning to end and ka is always served." ~ Roland Deschain
who ever said it did?
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.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
(any further discussion in the Rage thread, please)
Ask not what bears can do for you, but what you can do for bears. (razz)
When one is in agreement with bears one is always correct. (mae)
bears are back!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
Sorry , but I can bearly remeber the story. Pretty unremerkable
for me, and yet I gave it a 2 ...so so.
The answer is within
all matter is energy, all energy is GOD
4
"Far better it is to dare mighty things, to win glorious triumphs, even though checkered by failure, than to take rank with those poor spirits who neither enjoy much nor suffer much, because they live in the gray twilight that knows not victory or defeat" -Theodore Roosevelt
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.
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.
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.
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