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Mostly Stephen King, but a little bit of Adolph Hitler. Now with a Bernie Sanders reference!

July 4, 2016 by ingres77 Leave a Comment

The Running Man (1982) by Stephen King (3.5 stars) -not previously reviewed for the CBR Written as Richard Bachman, King’s introduction to this edition lays out his reasons for creating the pseudonym and, ultimately, killing him off following the discovery. Given his reasoning (which is basically that he wanted to try something different and test his success), I’m left wondering if King has other pseudonyms out there we don’t know about. I’ve wondered that about J.K. Rowling, as well. I’ve never really been interested in […]

Filed Under: Fiction, History, Non-Fiction, Science Fiction, Suspense, Western Tagged With: Adolph Hitler, Carnivale, dystopia, Raylan Givens, Richard Bachman, Stephen King, televangelism

ingres77's CBR8 Review No:48 · Genres: Fiction, History, Non-Fiction, Science Fiction, Suspense, Western · Tags: Adolph Hitler, Carnivale, dystopia, Raylan Givens, Richard Bachman, Stephen King, televangelism ·
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