Richard Bachman died in 1985 of cancer of the pseudonym, shortly after releasing his novel Thinner. In 1995, another book was unearthed, a novel called The Regulators, which had remarkable similarities to Desperation by Stephen King, that was released at the same time. Now, in 2007, another one of Bachman’s early novels has resurfaced. Blaze… Read more »
Posts Categorized: First Lines
First Lines: The Right Hand of God
One of the things this website still misses, besides a decent layout, is an archive section with my old weblog. If there was one, I could have linked to the posts covering the first two parts in Russell Kirkpatrick’s Fire of Heaven trilogy. So here’s the summary: in Across the Face of the World, the… Read more »
First Lines: Firestarter
As the result of a secret government experiment gone FUBAR, Andy McGee gained some limited psychic powers. When a few years later his daughter Charlie is born, it becomes very clear that she got an even bigger ‘gift’. She is able to start fires. Of course, the same government agency who did the tests, The… Read more »
First Lines: Gaudí in Manhattan
Back in September 2004 I was in Barcelona for a couple of days. I didn’t enjoy it nearly as much as I should have, since I was sick for about half of the trip. Must’ve been something I ate. One of the things that I did get to enjoy, was what’s finished of Gaudí’s Sagrada… Read more »
First Lines: Cujo
The best synopsis of Stephen King’s novel Cujo can be found in one of his other books, On Writing. While explaining that writers should forget plot, but remember the importance of ‘situation’, he writes that A strong enough situation renders the whole question of plot moot. The most interesting situations can usually be expressed as… Read more »