The Bachman Books

constantreader85 · July 13th, 2009

There was 4 stories in the bacman books if i remember correctly. but i think that rage was taken out of the collection for some reason, too violent. i think i read that somewhere.

Start with first story and 2nd and so on.

**RavensMirror** · August 19th, 2009

I just got my hands on The Bachman Books. $10 on ebay. Not too bad I think. I can't wait to get it and read it!

**Adrian** · October 5th, 2009

Bachmann is great.

**bryantburnette** · October 28th, 2009

Having just finished rereading The Bachman Books, I will definitely say that those four novels have held up incredibly well over the years. The writing is occasionally a little rough in some places, but in other places it's tremendous, and all four novels seem still to be eerily relevant.

Great stuff all around.

**Mookie** · November 30th, 2009

Originally Posted by bryantburnette

Having just finished rereading The Bachman Books, I will definitely say that those four novels have held up incredibly well over the years. The writing is occasionally a little rough in some places, but in other places it's tremendous, and all four novels seem still to be eerily relevant.

Great stuff all around.

I am waiting for these four books to arrive at my local library. I am excited to get the chance to read these early works, to get (yet another) a glimpse of how SK has matured as a writer.

**michal** · November 30th, 2009

I love The Long Walk too, but I don't really think it matters what order you read them, as long as you read them all.

**Mookie** · December 1st, 2009

I picked up "The Long Walk" yesterday at the library. I am still waiting for the entire collection (Bachman Books) to arrive....but couldn't resist when I seen the solitary copy of LW. From all of the comments here, looks like I was right to grab it lol... Have to finish my 7 day fast read first.......if/when I get off of here. This board is like a favorite book, so hard to put down. Plus when I discuss books with my dear husband he's like "yeah yeah"! He likes to read textbooks and instruction manuals over fiction.....Sigh

**sbtaylor76** · December 2nd, 2009

I would like to read The Bachman Books, but I can only find them in mass market size. Any ideas where I can find any of the books in trade or hardcover in decent condition? I don't care if it's only one book at a time, I would just like to read them.

**ChristineB** · December 2nd, 2009

Originally Posted by tillyn

I've gotten my hands on 2 Bachman books and i'm trying to decide what to do with them. I'd like to raise some money by selling them and donate the money to the Haven Foundation. I'll have to see if MsMod, says this is okay first. Both in excellent condition.

TheDarkTower.com has a fund raiser for Haven each year, you may want to think about donating them to that, easy way to do it.

**ChristineB** · December 2nd, 2009

Originally Posted by sbtaylor76

I would like to read The Bachman Books, but I can only find them in mass market size. Any ideas where I can find any of the books in trade or hardcover in decent condition? I don't care if it's only one book at a time, I would just like to read them.

The only hard cover of them is in the collection The Bachman Books.

They were orginally published in a small paperback mass market size. All but Rage (taken out of print by SK in 99 due to the school shootings in the US) are sitll in print as far as I know, but none of them were ever done in a full size hard back edition individually, unless they were from another country other then the US.