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Blaze reviews
I see Lilja has posted the Booklist review for Blaze. This motivated me to see if Publishers Weekly had theirs, and they did. (You'll have to scroll about halfway down, so I've posted it below.)
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Blaze
Richard Bachman. Scribner, $24 (288p) ISBN 978-1-4165-5484-4
Written circa 1973, this "trunk novel," as Bachman's double (aka Stephen King) refers to it in his self-deprecating foreword, lacks the drama and intensity of Carrie and the horror opuses that followed it. Still, this fifth Bachman book (after 1996's The Regulators) shows King fine-tuning his skill at making memorable characters out of simple salt-of-the-earth types. Clayton "Blaze" Blaisdell has fallen into a life of delinquency ever since his father's brutal abuse rendered him feebleminded. King alternates chapters recounting Blaze's past mistreatment at a series of Maine orphanages and foster homes with Blaze's current plans to follow through on a kidnapping scheme plotted by his recently murdered partner in crime, George Rackley. Blaze talks to George as though he's still there, and the conversations give the tale tension, with Blaze coming across as a pitiable and surprisingly sympathetic contrast to prickly George. Despite its predictability, this diverting soft-boiled crime novel reflects influences ranging from John Steinbeck to James M. Cain. Also included is a previously uncollected story, "Memory," the seed of King's forthcoming novel Duma Key. (June)
Quote:
Blaze
Richard Bachman. Scribner, $24 (288p) ISBN 978-1-4165-5484-4
Written circa 1973, this "trunk novel," as Bachman's double (aka Stephen King) refers to it in his self-deprecating foreword, lacks the drama and intensity of Carrie and the horror opuses that followed it. Still, this fifth Bachman book (after 1996's The Regulators) shows King fine-tuning his skill at making memorable characters out of simple salt-of-the-earth types. Clayton "Blaze" Blaisdell has fallen into a life of delinquency ever since his father's brutal abuse rendered him feebleminded. King alternates chapters recounting Blaze's past mistreatment at a series of Maine orphanages and foster homes with Blaze's current plans to follow through on a kidnapping scheme plotted by his recently murdered partner in crime, George Rackley. Blaze talks to George as though he's still there, and the conversations give the tale tension, with Blaze coming across as a pitiable and surprisingly sympathetic contrast to prickly George. Despite its predictability, this diverting soft-boiled crime novel reflects influences ranging from John Steinbeck to James M. Cain. Also included is a previously uncollected story, "Memory," the seed of King's forthcoming novel Duma Key. (June)
Comments
released this week and I think that is something that needs to be
celebrated. So this week I'll have the following prepared for you all:
Monday:
My review of Blaze
Monday – Wednesday:
Contest with UK editions of the book as prizes.
Wednesday:
Interview with King's UK editor Philippa Pride
Thursday – Sunday:
Contest with US editions of the book as prizes.
Enjoy!
Lilja
Indeed it is. Thanks!
BTW according to Urban dictionary, weap means:
someone who is scared, cheap, dirty, a loser, trys too hard.. a weap is someone who is for lack of a better word a square. this person doesn't have friends, and if he/she thinks he/she does, they are probably the person in that group that everyone talks about behind their back. a person can be weap for any number of reasons and can be called so by another person if they do not meet up to the other persons standards of what cool is. weap can also be used amongst friends as a funny word to joke around with like you're making fun of each other.
Sounds like the main character - Clayton (Blaze) Blaisdell - from Blaze!
USA Today
But this causes me to wonder: having taken Rage out of print, does SK now want to go a step further and try to keep future readers from ever knowing about it and going to look for it? I find it hard to believe that it was left off the list by accident.
Lilja
www.Liljas-Library.com
Times Picayune review
3.5 stars: "The ending is both inevitable and a little abrupt, but readers will nevertheless find themselves wishing that there could have been some other way to bring the story to a close. There are moments of fleeting and hard-won joy in Blaze’s life, but this is not a happy story for readers to while away a couple of mindless hours. Open this book and you’re committed. And King will not let you go until you’ve heard Blaze’s tale in its entirety."
:-)
-justin
This series starts on Monday the 29th of December 2008 at 9:30am (GMT). Other times are listed at the site below.
The series carries on daily at the same time.
Blaze Program Info Page
If you would like to listen to this series, here is the link to the BBC iplayer (worldwide)
Or you could watch Via Digital Television (in the UK):
All the BBC's national radio services are available via digital satellite television. Satellite services are available from Sky or Freesat. The Sky EPG No for BBC Radio 7 is 0131 and for Freesat it is 708.
All BBC national digital radio services are available on Freeview digital television through an aerial. Freeview EPG No. for BBC Radio 7 is 708.
And in some areas via digital cable television. Virgin TV EPG No. for BBC Radio 7 is 910.
http://www.bbc.co.uk/radio7/help/howtolisten/