The Regulators
Dutton, 1996
Bracket #8
Voting for this Book is Closed
Final Average Score:
3.571428571
The Regulators will not advance to Round 2
I loved it - 5
It was good - 4
Average - 3
Only so-so - 2
I didnt like it - 1
Never Read
The Regulators--Voting Closed
The Regulators
Dutton, 1996
Bracket #8
Voting for this Book is Closed
Final Average Score:
3.571428571
The Regulators will not advance to Round 2
Heng Dai
4
I really enjoyed The Regulators. I liked the premise and the way it played out.
5! Creepy story and I loved it.
“Twenty years from now you will be more disappointed by the things that you didn't do than by the ones you did do. So throw off the bowlines. Sail away from the safe harbor. Catch the trade winds in your sails. Explore. Dream. Discover.”-Mark Twain
Listen to the mustn'ts, child. Listen to the don'ts. Listen to the shouldn'ts, the impossibles, the won'ts. Listen to the never haves, then listen close to me....Anything can happen, child. Anything can be.
-Shel Silverstein
I liked this one more than Desperation, but only a little more. 4.
Margaret Emmie Mackey Catoe, you are, have been, and always will be my soulmate, and I love you.
Con todo mi corazon, por todo de mis dias. And I always will, in this life and into the next.
August 2, 1947 - September 24, 2010
I loved this book. It is the only King book I have read more than twice.
I liked it. I gave it a 4.
A true firewasp ninja would never wear such a ridiculous sweater.
There's logic in nonsense.
Give me all the bacon and eggs you have.
WOW Hannah, we're in sync today. Another 4 from me too.
The answer is within
all matter is energy, all energy is GOD
LOVED it! 5
“A Human Thought is an actual EXISTENCE, and a Force and Power, capable of acting upon and controlling matter as well as mind.”
"The ability to speak does not make you intelligent."
"God always punishes us for what we can't imagine."
SK
Like its mirror novel, one of those I still need to get to.
I gave it a 3. It was good, but not spectacular, IMHO.
"People, especially children, aren't measured by their IQ. What's important about them is whether they're good or bad, and these children are bad." ~ Alan Bernard
"You needn't die happy when your day comes, but you must die satisfied, for you have lived your life from beginning to end and ka is always served." ~ Roland Deschain
I've ended up voting both this and Desperation as a 4, even though I liked this one better.
This one I'm going to give a 4 as well. Didn't quite enjoy it as much as Desperation, but I still thought it was really good.
Only the gentle are ever really strong.
2
Too much fuss. Everybody runs and falls and jumps and crawls - bears fall asleep immediately. Moreover, I am not familiar with the entities used - and if the book was really good, it wouldn't have influenced anything, I would have believed and sympathized and bought the whole story and lived it whether or not I was familiar with the context.
Ask not what bears can do for you, but what you can do for bears. (razz)
When one is in agreement with bears one is always correct. (mae)
bears are back!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
I really loved this one.
Lots of action.
I gave it a 5!
... From the keyboard of Kevin
"A gunslinger knows pride - that invisible bone that keeps the neck stiff."
"Officer Benzyck! It's good to see you and there's some jam right there on your collar, praise God!"- Rev. Earl Harrigan
Unfortunately, although I own it, I never finished this one. I don't remember why...
Have you heard of people with short fuses? Well, I have no fuse at all, and there's a thousand could testify to it if I hadn't stilled their tongues for good.
You can't ignore my girth.Originally Posted by LadyHitchhiker
My thoughts exactly.
3. I've always preferred Desperation of these 2 books, but this was still reasonably good.
I gave a 4. I waaaay preferred this to Desperation. Infact, it's probably my favourite Bachman book.
I enjoyed the parallels between this story and Desperation, although I preferred the setting and characters of Regulators. I found it to be like a mini The Stand, in the way the neighbourhood becomes divided in the way each person handles the situation.
Good stuff and if I ever come to the States I'm buying a copy with this cover, yet again far superior to the UK edition
*jumps on board*
My thoughts exactly.
Well, you don't need to actually come here in order to get it. You see they have this thing called the Internet, in fact you're on it right now!Good stuff and if I ever come to the States I'm buying a copy with this cover, yet again far superior to the UK editionTo the shops wit'ee!
I love these books. Desperation has the more fleshed story, but this has a really cool style and I thought the Seth/Tak character was F'n the most disturbing angle on Tak in either book. I loved him in both though.
"Please be calm! Remember that these things exist on a different level of reality than the one your on now." -Doc#1/ Clotho:
Rated it a 5, Desperation a 4. Just liked it better, maybe cuz I'm a kid and I dig the kid stuff. Cowboys and such.
"I wish they'd just wipe out humanity and get it over with. It's the waiting I can't stand." -Fry"I know we can't all stay here forever, so I want to write my words on the face of today." -Blind Melon
So, as I just said in the Desperation thread....
I gave this a 3. I remember reading when it first came out, and only just liking it. I've had no desire to reread it since then--until sometime last week when I saw a copy of this and Desperation at the library, wondered where my copies were, and thought, "Hmm, I should reread those two at some point."
My opinion might change on reread, but this is where it stands for now.
Have to say I like "Desperation" a little more but for no discernable reason lol
first book I have actually given a 1. Hated it.
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