![]() ![]() After 37 books, King’s earned the clout to publish one this silly - and even his most devoted readers have earned the right to skip it. ![]() The Regulators reeks of desperation, and not in a good way. (Joe Klein, check your attic.) The laborious story - which is not a sequel, not a prequel, and not worth bothering with - finds a bunch of addled Ohio suburbanites defending themselves against gun-toting monsters in a place that, as one character explains, ”is partly the Old West as it exists on TV and partly a place called the Force Corridor, which only exists in a TV-cartoon version of the twenty-third century.” Got it? Me neither. After 37 books, King’s earned the clout to publish one this silly and even his most devoted readers have earned the right to skip it. The Regulators is a 1996 science fiction horror novel written by Stephen King under the pseydonym Richard Bachman, and a mirror to his novel Desperation. ![]() But The Regulators mostly reads like the kind of odd, patchwork indulgence that should have stayed in the cellar where - we learn, in a too-cute editor’s note - it was ”discovered” among the ”late” Richard Bachman’s papers. That end brings us, sadly, to The Regulators, a novel that utilizes some of the same DNA as Desperation - its characters are fun-house mirror images of the other book’s, and details as odd as Three Musketeers wrappers and smiley faces recur in both novels. ![]()
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