The Regulators -

Richard Bachman, Stephen King

Viking

1996

480 páginas

16h 0m

ISBN-10: 0670872814

Author of bestselling novel "Thinner" and four thrillers that have sold millions in an omnibus edition "The Bachman Books", the late Richard Bachman has been described as "Stephen King without a conscience". Now he performs an eerie encore with the posthumous release of "The Regulators", a harrowing story of a suburban neighborhood in the grip of surreal terror.

It's a summer afternoon in Wentworth, Ohio, and on Popular Street everything's normal. The paper boy is making his rounds; the Carver kids are bickering at the corner convenience store; a Frisbee is flying on the Reed's lawn; Gary Soderson is firing up the backyard barbecue. The only thing that doesn't quite fit is the red van idling just up the hill. Soon it will begin to roll, and the killing will begin. A quiet slice of American suburbia is about to turn to toast.

The mayhem rages around a seemingly still point, a darkened house lit fitfully from within by a flickering television cream. Inside, where things haven't been normal for a long time, are Audrey Wyler and autistic nephew she cares for, eight-year-old Seth Garin. They're fighting their own battle, and its intensity has turned 247 Poplar Street into a prisonhouse.

By the time night falls on Poplar Street, the surviving residents will find themselves in another world, one where anything, no matter how terrible, is possible... and where the regulators are on their way. By what they have come, how far they will go, and how they can be stopped — these are the desperate questions. The answers are absolutely terrifying.

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4 (Muito bom)

Bom livro

The Regulators é um bom livro, com uma trama envolvente. Como todos os livros do Stephen King, discute a natureza humana e suas fraquezas quando as pessoas são confrontadas com situações extremas e, aparentemente, inconcebíveis.
É muito interessante, também, a relação que é feita entre esse livro e o Desperation, assinado pelo próprio Stephen King. Alguns personagens se repetem e os dois terminam com a sensação de alívio e perda - sem um final feliz real. De diferença, acho que Tak, em The Regulators, é muito mais interessante.