 Hello everybody, E here. Welcome back to Thursday Theorists. Today we are talking about the first Bachman book Rage Okay, so I don't have just the single copy. I'm sorry them things are going for like six hundred dollars online I can't I can't do it right now. I'm sorry anyways So this is I don't even have one of the original first editions of the Bachman books because those things are so hard to find But every time I come across one There's something wrong with it either on eBay or Logey or whatever that I just I don't touch it either It's got some kind of strange stains on it or it doesn't have a dust jacket or the dust jacket is just torn to shreds And you can't tell what it was. Yes. I'm a collector I want a decent copy that has a full dust jacket. So this is what I have right now It's getting even harder and harder to find copies of the Complete collection of Bachman books because of course back after Columbine King removed Rage from publication period I don't know that he'll ever republish it And there there's a lot to be said about that I'm angry about it because it is I feel one of his best novels or novellas I'm not actually sure how you categorize most of the Bachman books because I know I think road work and Rage come in very very short. So they might even be novellas. Anyways, I mean this this book is 681 pages and it has four novels in it anyways, so It's like I said, it's one of my favorite out of King's entire You know back catalog bibliography. What do you want? Whatever you want to say? And the reason for that is the the writing he is he did some of his best writing in this book I I Didn't relate to the main character as much as I It's not even really sympathized with him. It's just that I understood Why he that he was just a messed up individual and here he was doing this bad thing Unfortunately in this country it is now I mean every single week you turn on the television and you see another story like Rage To me there needs to be fiction out there that mirrors that that gives people the the fictional fictional side of things as maybe an escape Well, I'm not saying that The book should be seen as you know like a fantasy porn or anything like that for you know to get your I Don't know your retribution out by reading it to feel a sense of vengeance by reading it because that's not what it's there for It is there to shine a light on a broken mind that would escalate a situation to murder Or mass murder Any so that's how I feel about Rage now how this is this has been a popular question throughout the series How are you possibly going to tie together the Bachman books with the Dark Tower? Well, it's actually kind of simple for this one This one ties into the Dark Tower because they mentioned Harlow or old Harlow Road Which is in the body when we get to different seasons I will be connecting the body to the Dark Tower series. So remember that for that video There is also mentioned later on in some of the other Bachman books of places like Derry. So we will talk about all that stuff when we get there I will also talk about the importance of being Bachman and the introduction to this book when I get to the long walk Because I wanted to discuss specifically why rage I want in this video I wanted to discuss specifically why rage was taken away Why it's my favorite one of my favorite Stephen King novels even if I do say it's not a Stephen King novel There is a clear line between the tonal quality of a Richard Bachman novel And a Stephen King novel Some people will agree that the only thing that is similar between either style Is how bad the endings are but that that's just that's you know, that's just people talking So until next time I have been e you've and you oh and if I missed anything I'll let you know down there in the doobie-doo That right. I'll talk to you guys later. Bye. Bye