Hello Alexander: 
 
 AB> I haven't read either of them. In my opinion all of his stories have  
 AB> something good and special - which does not mean 
 AB> that all of them are  
 AB> exciting. ;)
 AB> So I think Insomnia for example is really bad, 
 AB> really disappointing. But  
 AB> there are also older stories that are not that 
 AB> exciting. A good example  
 AB> may Carrie be. The story is old but that does not make it better...
But Carrie was Kings first major novel and it showed what he could do...I 
love all of his earlier stuff. (But then again that could be me in my 
misguided youth in some form of rebellious stage).
Carrie was a pretty good story and it showed that King could have staying 
power and besides the movie version was kinda scary but not true to the 
novel...
and Insomnia is a slump story...I found that King was trying to recapture his 
spirit of writitng...
 
 AB> I bought a copy of The Regulators today. Now I'm 
 AB> really looking forward   
 AB> to finding out about the quality of the book. 
 AB> Desperation is not bad but  
 AB> it would be interesting if The Regulators was 
 AB> better. I mean - that could  
 AB> lead to the idea that Bachman writes better stories than King.
 AB> Maybe like George Stark in the Dark Half?!;)
Stark is Bachman and King tried to excorsise his own little demons! :)
 
Let me know how your opinion of the Regulators! :)
 
Tim
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