Rage
Rage is considered to be the most disputable works of Stephen King. This story is about Charlie Decker who is a senior in a high school. He decides to go to school with a gun and shoot Mrs. Underwood, his teacher. However, due to unforeseen circumstances which take place after the killing of Mrs. Underwood Charlie shoots Mr. Vance, his another teacher who approaches to the cabinet of Mrs. Underwood.
When the police come to the high school Charlie decides to take his friend hostage. He begins to ask that police to admit to being in the wrong and to apologize to the students of the Breakfast Club. Only his licker padlock in the picket saves him from the police which surround the high school.
The author let the novel pause from the final printing after the book was connected with two school shootings and there were some links with the Columbine shootings in 1999. At such school shooting in the licker of the assailant there was a copy of the novel and this may be the push the author letting the book fall out of print. They say that a student was telling the lines from the book during the school shootings.
This novel was published under Richard Bachman, pseudonym of King and later the novel was added to the compilation The Bachman Books. There were also Road Work, The Long Walk and The Running Man. These three novels are also available in separate novels. Nevertheless the novel Rage is out of print.
Today it is not difficult to find the copies of Rage but they may cost more in comparison with the other new paperback. But the fans will find it very interesting and at the same time horrific story which is something different compared with other stories.
