[Moraven]

Originally Posted by faerietalegoddess

"The Regulators" was one of my favorite books for a while. I bought it thinking it was a sequel of some sort to "Desperation", but came to realize that the characters were the only similarities, from what I remembered. I thought it was a great book and that Tak was at his meanest in that one, especially with the way he treated poor Audrey. As for "The Long Walk", it's definitely at the top of my favorites in the Bachman and King works.

As for Blaze, I picked it up and read it completely as soon as I got my hands on it, and I thought that it was pretty good. I especially liked the chapters that went into exploring Blaze's past, but there were definitely some hopes while I was reading it that the story would be spiced up a bit. And Carpe, I thought that Stephen King mentioned influence from "Of Mice and Men" in his introduction, but I can't look since my books are packed up. However, even if he didn't mention it, I would definitely think that some of the influence for "Blaze" came from "Of Mice and Men". There's just way too many similarities, I think.

King says he wrote "Blaze" to be like "Of Mice and Men." That is definitely in the foreward to the book. I don't know if he did that on purpose or just accidentily managed it and then wrote it into the foreward to cover his own ass, but he does mention it at least.