| Re: Blaze - "recently discovered" Bachman novel
I was disappointed with it.
The story was a bit blah. Large retarded anti-hero (nod to "Of mice and men"), life of petty crime, tried to pull off one big job (Kidnap rich toddler) with predictable results.
Bachman/King writes great characters and the character of Blaze is well written and sympatheticly shown with the flashbacks to his life growing up.
Wasn't really caught up in the story.
Nice that the royalties are going to charity, but felt maybe better left in the trunk. Not one of his better novels.
It contains a short story at the end "Memory" that leads into his next novel "Duma Key". |