Moving on with the King re-read process:
11. The Shining by Stephen King.
It's been a while since I have read this, and my memory is colored by the Kubrick movie. I liked the movie but it is a different story than the book. Given King's struggle with sobriety until 1987 and his family's intervention due to his drug and alcohol abuse, the book also reads a bit like the negative doppelganger of King (moody writer, young wife and child, struggling with addiction). It was great though, and I loved the re-read.
12. Rage by Stephen King (published under the name Richard Bachman).
The first of the so-called Bachman books, this is a troubling book. King has taken it out-of-print now (and, in fact, it isn't even available anymore in the Bachman Book collection) given its portrayal of a school shooter. This was disturbing in large part because it puts you inside the mind of the perpetrator. As an older man reading it now (and in our current era), I understand why he has taken it out of circulation, but it is a powerful read (especially when you realize he began writing this in high school). It does express the alienation, discomfort, and anxiety of high school, but the lesson (that we all have a little evil inside of us waiting for the right time to emerge) is heavy-handed.