New Bachman/King book
"Okay, okay. According to both Bev Vincent and Hans-Ake Lilja (and CH fan Ben Smith), King announced that a "new" Bachman book had been "discovered." As it turns out, this novel is Blaze an early novel King wrote in the 1970s, and offered to Doubleday at the same time as 'Salem's Lot. Doubleday chose 'Salem's Lot, and as the story goes, that was the better of the two choices.
However, the lore around Blaze has been swirling ever since fans first learned of King's early unpublished novels (The Aftermath and Sword in the Darkness among them.) As Blaze stood, it was deemed unworthy ... but that doesn't mean that King (with Bachman's help) hasn't tinkered with it. It's obviously not lost his thoughts in all this time, and now to hear news of it ... this is just amazing.
The plot is well-known amongst Stephen King experts, but a refresher: Blaze is the story of a giant, mentally challenged man (Claiborne Blaisdell, Jr.) who decides to kidnap a baby and hold it for a $1 million ransom. The novel flips back and forth between the current story of Blaze's kidnapping and flight from the law to stories of his abusive past. There's another character named George, Blaze's best friend; it is George who actually convinces Blaze to kidnap the baby. The only problem is, George may or may not be dead, and thus be a psychological manifestation ... or perhaps a ghost."
and here is the first 2 chapters of the book if you wanna read it...
[url]http://www.stephenking.com/assets/blaze_chapters_1_and_2.pdf[/url]
oh boy, i heartily agree with you Barca babe. King had many good years, and many good books, but when he quit with the drugs and alcohol, his writing turned into ::sigh:: sappy ghost stories. the last dark tower books were the last great things he did.
So why does he keep turning em out as "Bachman" books? the secret has been out for quite awhile and I mean, it was that kind of tongue-in-cheek sideways smile for the first couple of ones he came out with after that. but anymore it just seems stupid
He isn't still turning books out as Bachman he only wrote about 6 books as Bachman way back in the day when he started. It was because he was new to the author scene and still wanted to publish more then one book per year, he thought that if he did that the public wouldn't take him seriously as a writer so he wrote under the name Richard Bachman and had some book's released by the name Stephen King and some by Richard Bachman.
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I find I'm really enjoying his new works... ie. Cell and Lisey's Story.... they're as good as his older stuff, and I patiently await his next novel
[QUOTE=Crash_an'_Burn;964124]He isn't still turning books out as Bachman he only wrote about 6 books as Bachman way back in the day when he started. It was because he was new to the author scene and still wanted to publish more then one book per year, he thought that if he did that the public wouldn't take him seriously as a writer so he wrote under the name Richard Bachman and had some book's released by the name Stephen King and some by Richard Bachman.
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This thread is about him turning out another Bachman book! and he had that other one a few years ago, Regulators? have there been any others?
I know [i]why[/i] he did the Bachman thing all those years ago and one or two after the secret came out I can see working as well but to still be doing it is lame.
i love Stephen Kings books but he should have quit after the Dark Tower ended, hes like a Heavy Weight boxer get beaten everytime.