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Roadwork
by: Stephen King

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Binding: Paperback
Dewey Decimal Number: 813.54
EAN: 9780451197870
ISBN: 0451197879
Label: Signet
Manufacturer: Signet
Number Of Items: 1
Number Of Pages: 320
Publication Date: June 01, 1999
Publisher: Signet
Sales Rank: 18041
Studio: Signet

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#1 bestselling master of suspense...

They're tearing down Bart Dawes's home, leveling his memories, and destroying his past, all for a new highway extension. Funny what that kind of progress can do to a man. Scary, too.

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- Early Stephen King is good Stephen King
There are four books inside the Bachman Books; Roadwork is the weakest of the four. That being said, early Stephen King is good Stephen King. It's lean and mean, written with a tone that isn't so much trying to scare you as it is trying to hurt you. And I love that about King. It's the--screw you reader, take it and shut up--that I love about early King. It might not be the best work he has done, but it's still better than 99% of everyone else. If you love early King, read it.

James Roy Daley, author of The Dead Parade
The Dead Parade

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- Don't Worry About The Government
Stephen King (writing as Richard Bachman) tackles the anti-hero with Bart Dawes, who paves a path to self-destruction through a series of deviant actions that - in his mind - may prevent a highway from paving over his home.

The psychology of Dawes is painted by King in rich colors that become more and more smeared as his goal becomes more focused, yet more ridiculously unobtainable.

That Dawes is driving himself down a dead-end road - with the guidance of several others - ultimately makes the mind games quite silly. But the novel keeps a decent pace for 307 pages and is a nice detour from the typical terrain traversed by King.

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- How much can you take away from someone before they snap?
Story:
Barton Dawes was a normal man working in his laundry mat. He had a loving wife and a life he was happy with. Until the day came that he found that his house and his business was going to be demolished in the name of progress. His home was to become the site of a new interstate. On that day Bart snapped. This is the story of how Bart falls and what he finds out about himself, his life, and his world on the way down...
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To start off this book is *dark* it almost reminded me of another book called "The edge of human" by K.W.Jeeter. When you glance up from reading the sun doesn't seem quite as bright as it was before you started. This does as some of the other reviews on this page seem to be more of a main stream book than other King books,no supernatural forces or evil beings just one man self destructing. In between bouts of multiple personality arguements, dark depression and drug/alchol ... Read More

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- Not King's Best
Barton George Dawes has sunk deep roots. He's worked at the same commercial laundry plant for 20 years, and lived in the same house for nearly as long. But the city has plans to extend a highway that will force the destruction of both places. Dawes has apparently been losing his grip on sanity for the past three years when his young son died of brain cancer. George buys a high-powered rifle as well as a .44 magnum handgun. He manipulates things at work so that the company ends up with nowhere to relocate to when the plant is demolished and gets fired. He starts thinking about buying explosives to destroy the highway and the equipment used to build it. I'm not going to give away any more of the plot, but when a story begins with a man purchasing guns while having two separate voices holding an argument in his head, you might guess that it doesn't end with him sipping Mai Tais on the patio of a beachfront condo in ... Read More

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