Roadwork
by Stephen King
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Author: Stephen KingEdition: Paperback
Audio: English (Original Language); English (Unknown); English (Published)
Published: 1999-06-01
ISBN: 0451197879
Number of pages: 320
Publisher: Signet
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Book Review: One of the Batchman books
Summary: 4 Stars
I first read this as part of the Bachman quartet and found it the most satisfying of the four. King states in his introduction that he thinks that it is probably the worst, because he tried so hard to make it good and serious. He wrote it in 1976, and it contains no supernatural elements at all, instead focussing on real life terror. It reminded me of Black Sunday. The mind of the protaganist disintergrates when the council plan to build a road through the house that he has lived in for the last twenty years ... Moving in a way that I cannot describe, it is quite slow as it details his plan, and the ending where he finally carries it out seems sightly rushed, but it is a journey that is nessacary to take because it shows how society can inadvetantly exclude people. The action-packed ending contrasts well with the slow build up, and it isn't half as bad King would lead you to believe.
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