Blaze: A Novel
 

Blaze

by Stephen King

The last of the Richard Bachman novels, recently recovered and published for the first time. Stephen King's "dark half" may have saved the best for last.
A fellow named Richard Bachman wrote Blaze in 1973 on an Olivetti typewriter, then turned the machine over to Stephen King, who used it to write Carrie. Bachman died in 1985 ("cancer of the pseudonym"), but in late 2006 King found the... (read more)

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Matt
  • Rated 4 stars

A bit of confession first, Stephen King has been one of my favorite authors since I was a kid. I did stop reading his books when they started to become the size of phone books. About a month ago I saw this book at the local bookseller for $5.99 and said, “What the heck.”

Stephen King explains in the foreword that this was a trunk book. Basically, he wrote it along time ago and put it away. He eventually “found” it again, rewrote some parts and put it out under his alter-ego Richard...

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jmadigan
  • Rated 2 stars

Well, here's an interesting case that continues to prove that Stephen King's supposed retirement wasn't to be believed. Blaze is billed as one of the "Bachman books" because it was originally drafted back in the early days of his career when he was doing some writing under the pseudonym "Richard Bachman." King supposedly "found" the old manuscript in a trunk, which sounds like a load to me, but he's actually giving all the proceeds from the book to charity so you can hardly accuse him of...

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  • Julie M

    julie m said:

    I used to be a Stephen King nut, I read everything he put out. It's been a long time, but my husband bought this and I picked it up and instantly liked it. It's a quick read, and a good story.

    posted Sunday, March 2 2008
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