It was discussed in relation to its content depicting a school shooting, which led the author to remove it from publication due to concerns about it potentially being used as a guide for harmful actions.
We talked about that book, uh, stephen king Removed from publication of his own accord Uh the rage Rage, yes. That's the one. Yeah, he removed rage because He was concerned that rage describes a schoo...
— Episode: Should Any Books Be Banned?
Episode: Should Any Books Be Banned?
It was discussed in relation to its content depicting a school shooting, which led the author to remove it from publication due to concerns about it potentially being used as a guide for harmful actions.
We talked about that book, uh, stephen king Removed from publication of his own accord Uh the rage Rage, yes. That's the one. Yeah, he removed rage because He was concerned that rage describes a school shooting as planned in advance premeditated and king was worried that his Instructions his depictions were close enough to how you would actually do this Successfully that it would function as an instruction manual.
And he wrote it as richard bachman. This is the bachman days that uh, that was his And probably still is his alias for a while for some darker works, but he he was also from what I understand he was Incredibly Disturbed and rightly so because multiple school shootings in the 80s and early 90s Uh When they occurred authorities later found a copy of rage Amid the belongings of the perpetrators, so it is a real problem