Do you agree with Stephen King's decision to take Rage out of printing?

@manodogs (415)
United States
February 1, 2007 1:48am CST
Rage, one of the Bachman Books Stephen King wrote when he was using his Richard Bachman pseudonym years ago, is about a troubled youth who shoots his teacher and holds his class hostage. Easily the best of all the Bachman Books (excepting maybe Thinner), King decided to take it out of printing years back, after at least one (or more) real-life incidents occurred in which the kids who did them said they'd gotten the idea from reading the book. Do you agree with King's decision, or do you think it opens the door for more publishers, authors, and other organizations to demand similar books be removed from print?
3 responses
imsilver
@imsilver (1665)
• Canada
1 Feb 07
I don't see how it opens the door. No-one has the right to say what we can or cannot read. But an author does have a right to say what happens to his work. And just because it's out of print doesn't mean you can't find it to read.
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manodogs
@manodogs (415)
• United States
17 Feb 07
You can still find it, at least in libraries and used bookstores. I think King did a good thing, even if not every artist can afford to do likewise, and I haven't heard of any other publishers or authors deciding that anything they had written needed to be removed from printing since he did it, so there hasn't been a great backlash or anything. I just wondered what others thought.
starr4all
@starr4all (2863)
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21 Feb 07
I don't think he should have taken it off the markets, but I can see why he would. Too many sue happy people these days would use that as an excuse. It's sad. But luckily enough, we can get books like these from the library and places like ebay.
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want2talk
@want2talk (34)
• Germany
20 Feb 07
I don't think he should have taken it out of print, but its his work and he probably doesn't want to be sued by angry parents.
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