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For all our King diehards, we are finally completing our journey through the Bachman Books with Rage!

In response to high school shootings in the US in the 80s and 90s, King asked his publisher to take the book out of print. If you don't already have a copy, you will have to trawl the second hand sites to find one, either as a stand alone or an early print of The Bachman Books (any copies printed after 1997-ish will not include Rage).

The discussion will be online and I'll post the link to the meeting on the day. The meeting will probably last about 2-3 hours including drinks breaks.

Book blurb follows:

A disturbed high-school student with authority problems kills one of his teachers and takes the rest of his class hostage. Over the course of one long, tense and unbearable hot afternoon, Charlie Decker explains what led him to this drastic sequence of events, while at the same time deconstructing the personalities of his classmates, forcing each one to justify his or her existence.

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