Reading Blaze

[randallFlaggfan1]

I loved Blaze, felt it has great potential, especially when one considers it's vintage King, written years before becaming a household name.

[aliciasimon]

I thought it was a great book. I felt sorry for the main character - he just isn't terribly bright. But he tries to be a good guy in his own way.

[teejay17]

I thought it was a great book. I felt sorry for the main character - he just isn't terribly bright. But he tries to be a good guy in his own way.

It's like he had goodness in his DNA.

[TBlack]

Did Andy Warhol paint only one ugly picture? ~BJS

Andy was ugly....
his paintings were rather purdy though!
I think he musta done some wicked bad recreationals early on
... heightened his perceptions...
...farked his gallbladder!

[Doc Wilson]

It was a slight book by SK standards but I really enjoyed it. I'd put it somewhere in the top half of all SK works, but not the very top tier.

[91rewoT]

Geez, I'm going to have to reread this one next! I hardly remember any of it, but I do remember I liked it a lot.

[davemelnick]

I not only saw TDT & RF/Randall Flagg hints thru Blaze, but Lost phrases. * Thanx for noticing the eye reference also.

[Poodlemum]

I LOVED Blaze - been a while now since I read it but, to me, it was one of those books where you just don't want it to end!

[Jojo87]

I liked Blaze very much. Blaze wasn't a long book, so it only took a few days to read it. But it was a great one.

[Ziklag Philistine]

Just joined and this is my first post - looked everywhere but haven't found any mention as to what I found while reading Blaze for the 6th time 3 nights ago. On page 144, when Blaze catches a ride in the pulp wood truck, it says that the driver's window was broken and that "blasts of January air whirled in, fighting with the baking air from the heater." Then on page 147, the driver offers Blaze another cig, Blaze says "trying to quit", driver says "Yeah? Good for you. Cold as a witch's tit in here ain't it?" (Downshifts, description of muffler (or lack of one) sounds, then driver says..) "Heater's broke. Radio, too."

I'm not one of these people that is trying to make Mr. King look bad, it's just that I've never found an error in ANY SK book. Guess since this one's a trunk novel, written long ago, found, then edited more, I image it can happen - just never seen it!

I hate to sound excited, but I was when I found it. Is there a place on this website where this kind of thing is discussed?

Later!

Ziklag Philistine