Road Rage

6,5 Punkte. Ein Buch voller widerlicher Charaktere, die man nicht verstehen kann und sämtliche Logik bei ihnen versagt. Erst am ende verstand ich, dass es wohl die Absicht war, damit man sich nicht mit den Charakteren identifizieren kann (außer Ted, der als einziger gegen Charlie ist) um so zu merken, dass man ein normal denkender Mensch ist.

Lunacy is when you can’t see the seams where they stitched the world together anymore. Oof. It’s a tough hang. Knowing King started writing it during high school puts it in context. It’s essentially Stephen King’s Breakfast Club. But it’s not great.

You might think that a book about a traumatized student who loses it and kills his teacher then holds his algebra class hostage for half a day would terrify a teacher. But we're made of sterner stuff than that. My immediate response to this book is similar to my adult reaction to Holden in The Catcher in the Rye. What a confused, traumatized kid. What a group of confused, traumatized kids. I'm glad we're becoming more aware of the affects of trauma on the brain and working with restorative justice. We can only hope we can help prevent this kind of thing from happening. As far as the book itself goes, the writing isn't stellar. Cliches abound and most of the characters are flat archetypes like the villainous abusive dad and the golden boy. The first-person point-of-view was a good choice, but in some ways it lessens the suspense. We can read Charlie's mood and have a good idea whether he's amped up enough to shoot or not. This really is like The Breakfast Club if there were 25 kids and one of them had shot the principal. The brief stories from the past told during the standoff are the best part of this book. With each one, we get a glimpse into why each character is who they are. It's also a glimpse into the development of Stephen King as a writer and the depths of backstory he has for every person in a room. Overall, an intriguing read, even if it's not King's (or Bachman's) greatest.

A very generation-specific story about societal repression.

I think i know what Stephen King meant when he said "they found something in my book that spoke to them because they w were already broken."

Have to thank Youtube for suggesting i read it in way that made it impossible for me to just not read it, tbh i am thankful i did read it.

Muy turbio y me dejó con una sensación muy estraña.

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Anyone saying that they don't understand why this book is out of print hasn't read it. This book sucks and anyone who "likes" it isn't someone you should listen to. Yeah, the whole "angry at the world" thing sucks and probably shouldn't be heralded but the fact that an absolutely unlikable character should be some type of antihero worth appreciation at all is just insulting to a reader looking for a good story. King says this was written primarily in high school and it shows.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Dk6yf... Llegué a este libro por morbo. Saber que Stephen King pidió que no lo publicaran más me llamó. Según yo sabía a lo que iba, sabia cual era el tema principal. Me esperaba algo sangriento, tipo Gore, no lo que leí. Un chico con un desorden mental, lleno de RABIA y un arma desata un caos en su instituto. Ajá ¿A que pensarias lo mismo que yo? Sangre. Pero lo que leí fue un desarrollo de personajes brutal (Maestro Stephen King), el personaje principal Decker nos lleva a través de sus rincones y lugares oscuros. Como poco a poco fue perdiendo la cordura, como psicópata no reconoce sus actos como un daño, los ve como un favor. ¿Quién es el malo Charlie? Lo que está claro es que aquí el que manda sos vos. Pero no fue solo el personaje de Charlie, cada personaje secundario te atrapa. La evolución de la trama hasta el estallido de la escena final, solo puedo decir ¡GENIO!

This is super fucked up and I can understand why it’s banned but also holy SHIT is it enthralling. Could not put it down.

Wow, what a disappointment. If I thought this had been a captivating read in the beginning and was not sure how to rate it or even review it, the ending made it really easy for me to make up my mind. This was not good, in my opinion. The entire time I spent reading this I couldn't help but feel like the main character, the killer, was being victimized. Not only because we are literally in his head and we know what he is thinking and his "reasons" for what he is doing, but also because of the way the other characters, his classmates, behave when they are locked with him in the classroom. Why would you act as if you are just hanging out with a friend? he just literally killed two people in front of you, and yet they all treat him like a friend and antagonize another kid (the only one who understood that Charlie needed to be stopped btw) to the point of physically torturing him? WTF!?! Charlie spends the entire time they are locked up telling anecdotes of his horrible childhood and of how awful his dad treated him, and all I could think was how fucking bullshit that was. We may all have shitty and fucked up upbringings and yet we don't go around shooting up a school the very first chance we get. That is victimizing the actual KILLER in this situation. The fact that all the kids are like "oh, I'm sorry that happened to you" blah blah blah just made me extremely mad. Why are you sympathizing with a killer? why?? he's literally holding you captive and might even kill you as well, why are you treating him like the fucking victim here? But the ending was what made me realize how much bullshit this story was. The fact that Charlie was able to make everyone believe that what they needed to do with Ted was justified was disgusting. They literally tortured another classmate (I don't care how shitty that kid was) and they did it gladly. This whole story was a huge dumpster fire that felt more of a victimization of a killer than an actual insight on school shootings.