B Canning’s Reviews > The Bachman Books: Four Early Novels by Stephen King > Status Update

Finished roadwork and really quickly (like 2 days) no less. Pretty good, gritty, quick and dirty. There’s a reason king is a household name. Roadwork is a basic premise, the plot is predictable, the characters are shallow but the story is still a fun one. Plenty of horror and tragedy but fitted into a suburban, midlife crisis lens… Looking forward to running man

Finished the long walk. 3 stars, glad it wasnt longer. Ambiguous ending that makes you wonder. Hard to believe its a 45 year old story, for that reason its fairly impressive as far as a psychological, albeit teeny bopperish thriller.

Started “the long walk” book 2 of 4 in the set.

Bought this to read rage. Did, it was fine, if anything disappointing. Now have 3 other books to get thru. Only read the outsider and listened to mr mercedes over the last 10 or so years. I’m interested to read more but not necessarily anytime soon. Do need to read these next 3 before anything else.