The Regulators
- 448
- Pages
- about 8 h
- Reading time
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Our view
“The Regulators” is violent small-town horror, issued under King’s Bachman pseudonym as the mirror image of “Desperation”. Some readers come for exactly that bloodshed and admit it frightened them; some take it as a pointed attack on children’s television. Some who know both books find this one the weaker, a reworking of the same ideas that never quite sets, and would leave it to King completists.
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About the book
The Regulators is a novel by American author Stephen King, writing under the pseudonym of Richard Bachman. It was published in 1996 at the same time as its "mirror" novel, Desperation. The two novels represent parallel universes relative to one another, and most of the characters present in one novel's world also exist in the other novel's reality, albeit in different circumstances. Additionally, the US hardcover first editions of each novel, if set side by side, make a complete painting, and on the back of each cover is also a peek at the opposite's cover.
Where the score comes from
The sources average 6.8 across 229 ratings — not yet many, so the reader vote carries 61% of the weight and the rest pulls toward the Horror average of 7.5. That is how 7.1 comes out.
| Source | Average | Ratings | Weight |
|---|---|---|---|
| Hardcover | 6.8 | 229 | 100% |
Frequently asked
How long is The Regulators?
It has 448 pages — longer than 64% of the ranked books in Horror.
In this book
Themes this book shares with others — each leads to the best books on it.
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