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  • File Size: 3699 KB
  • Print Length: 452 pages
  • Page Numbers Source ISBN: 034095227X
  • Publisher: Scribner (January 1, 2016)
  • Publication Date: January 1, 2016
  • Sold by: Amazon Digital Services, Inc.
  • Language: English
  • ASIN: B018ER7JOU
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27 of 29 people found the following review helpful
Alternate versions of grisly, gory, terrifying horror
By Lynn Harnett VINE VOICE on August 19, 2004
Format: Hardcover
Our resident master of horror, Stephen King, chalked up another first with the simultaneous 1996 publication of two huge grisly page turners, "Desperation", and under the pseudonym of "the late" Richard Bachman, "The Regulators."

A juxtaposition of the two covers reveals one picture - a menacing suburban landscape overlapping a western ghost town overrun with critters. But the two novels (almost 1200 pages of late nights and disturbing dreams) are each complete in themselves.

"Desperation" is set in a tiny Nevada mining town of the same name and "The Regulators" takes place on one block of an Ohio suburb. What the two novels share is their characters and the same elemental evil force, Tak, which has escaped from a deep mine shaft.

Although King has saved himself some work here - the characters have essentially the same personalities and backgrounds in both books - neither book provides a clue to anyone's fate in the other. The books are not sequential but alternate versions, alternate lives.

In "Desperation" the characters are assembled by Collie Entragian, an outsize cop whose initially strange mix of friendliness and menace is eerily chilling. Apparently at random, he stops passing motorists and carries them off to jail. Some, however, don't make it all the way to jail, and it gradually becomes clear that Entragian has murdered everyone in town. But something weird is happening to the cop, too. He is literally and gorily falling apart.

In "The Regulators" the characters are already assembled as neighbors on Poplar Street. Their glorious summer day is shattered by the arrival of a crayon red van and its armed driver.Read more ›
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19 of 22 people found the following review helpful
Who knew that earth demons like Chef Boyardee?
By Susanna on October 21, 2006
Format: Mass Market Paperback
'The Regulators' is not quite on the literary level of 'Desperation,' but that makes it more fun in a way, especially as it's less preachy. I liked that 'The Regulators' adds a little more information about the mysterious Tak. Here we see a more terribly playful, oddly fastidious, and possibly younger Tak who loves spaghetti, chocolate milk, westerns, and Cassie Stiles. And while most of the characters of 'The Regulators' are flatter than those of 'Desperation,' 'The Regulators' gives us a glimpse of what some inhabitants of Desperation might have been like before Tak possessed them, particularly Audrey and Collie who were never shown "pre-Tak" in 'Desperation.'
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52 of 67 people found the following review helpful
Vintage Stephen King? I think not!
By Benjamin Thomas VINE VOICE on June 30, 2000
Format: Mass Market Paperback
I read more than 75 novels each year and have read most of King's stuff. Obviously, with so much output from one writer, there are bound to be hits and misses. This one was a miss, in my opinion but there is still enough here to make it worth the read.
I had already read Desperation, the companion book to this volume, and came away with the feeling that I had just experienced a pretty good King novel. It also was far from his best but I enjoyed it none-the-less. So, naturally, I turned to this book, The Regulators, hoping for a similar experience. Stephen King is well known for marketing gimicry, pushing the envelope in the publishing business. At first it was through using brand names without permission. Then it was the alternate ego, Richard Bachman, followed by the serial novel (Green Mile) and now it is a "dual novel." Frankly, I don't think it worked this time. I just couldn't get the parallel between the two books/settings. Same names but different people and places. What was the point? Really, they are two seperate books.
In this novel, King definitely displays his famous talent for scene setting. The opening chapter is one of the best I've read, setting the stage for the coming horror. The plot was also pretty good, although the evil 'Tak' seemed somewhat ordinary. King uses a great mechanism to deliver the horror this time. The manifestation of the mind of a small autistic boy. The horrors come in the form of all of those things that frighten young children and, consequently, frighten us. The text is sprinkled throughout with other tidbits as well that help to tell the story: letters, postcards, diary entries, even a script. Another King tool to attack from all directions.
But somehow, it didn't all flow well together.Read more ›
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12 of 14 people found the following review helpful
Stinks. And I'm a King fan.
By A Customer on January 1, 1997
Format: Hardcover
I like Stephen King. And I'm the kind of fan who usually
enjoys even discards and potboilers. But I felt cheated.
This is the first King book where I didn't feel I got
value for my money. This
isn't just Homer nodding, this is floor sweepings.

All of King's faults stand out in this book. He never
convinces me for an instant that his isn't just making
this one up as he goes along. For example,
long about the end of the book, it finally occurs to King
that he has a problem: if Seth _does_ manage to evict the
evil alien presence that has possessed him, what's to stop
it from instantly invading one of the other score or so of
humans within its ever-increasing zone of power? King's
clever solution: he suddenly invents a law of his universe
that says that if the alien invades anyone else but Seth,
their heads explode.

It may seem odd to
complain of gratuitous violence and grossness in King;
it's always seemed to me that he has difficulty resolving
his plots tends to end his books with a meaningless burst
of ichor. But this book is _entirely_ like a King last
chapter. Didn't care about _any_ characters in it.

This book is _exactly_ like what people who have never
read Stephen King think Stephen King is like.
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