Introduction

Let’s start this blog off with what every good idea should either begin with or ultimately end in...

a dream.

Rage by Richard Bachman (a.k.a. Stephen King)

This book is exceptionally hard to get your hands on, trust me I’ve looked.

 Then again everything has a price and for the right price you can get everything.

 For about $350.00 you can purchase this book used. 

Such a high price for a bound bit of paper, don’t you think?

Rage follows the life of Charlie, an unexceptional High School Student whose life takes a major turn when he is unexpectedly expelled from school. This then sends him spiraling into a fit of (no pun intended) rage, where he begins shooting various teachers and takes his entire Algebra 2 classroom hostage. He then successfully manages to turn the students of the classroom against each other in psychological, brainwashed, animalistic feuds, all the while keeping the police and media at bay with brutal threats and mind games. 

Stephen King chose to take the book out of print sometime after the 1997 Heath High School shooting in Kentucky. 

Due to certain similarities the book has been believed by some to have inspired several school shootings since its publication. Of course, it doesn’t help that copies of the book were found in possession of the students who were responsible for such events. 

Imagine, a dangerous book…and for once it’s not the Bible. 

Maybe that’s why this book seems so intriguing to me, because it’s the one book that shouldn’t be read. Or at least, it shouldn’t be read…by the wrong people.