Just King Things is a podcast about reading the books of Stephen King in publication order.

As these are largely horror novels, they often deal with complicated and disturbing topics.

This episode on the 1977 novel, Rage, has content warnings for gun violence and school shootings,

physical assault, racism, domestic violence, bullying,

alcoholism and drug use, facial mutilation and disfigurement, psychological manipulation and

torture, and unsafe sexual practices. The Hi, jerks.

Welcome to Blabin' about Bachman, the podcast where we talk about the books of Richard Bachman.

I'm Jonathan Foghat, and with me is uh Thomas 38 special uh they call me Tom special Tom special okay

no okay just kidding it's just King things I'm Michael and with me is Cameron

that's true why did why did you begin this way Michael I'm Michael and with me is Cameron. That's true.

Why did you begin this way?

Michael, I'm speaking to you.

This is me speaking to you with incredulity.

You get it.

It's like the thing I normally do, but there's no Alamadipia because this is just a book of people talking to one another.

And so I can't do any on a Pia.

Yeah.

So I opened with a joke, quote unquote, because today we are talking about Rage, the 1997 novel that Stephen King published under his pseudonym Richard Bachman or

a 1977 novel oh okay yes but out of print in 1997

yes so it had a nice round number to exist in the world before Stephen King let it die, with good reason.

And we'll talk about that.

It's like if this very year, the creators of Baldersgate 2 decided, hey, we're getting

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