Blaze (novel) Blaze (novel) Blaze is a novel by American writer Stephen King, published under the pseudonym of Richard Bachman. King announced on his website that he "found it" in an attic. In fact (as mentioned in the afterword of "Different Seasons") it was written before "Carrie" and King offered the original draft of the novel to his Doubleday publishers at the same time as "'Salem's Lot". They chose the latter to be his second novel and "Blaze" became a "trunk novel." King rewrote the manuscript, editing out much of what he perceived as over-sentimentality in the original text, and offered the
Change of Heart (novel) to "The Green Mile" (1996), by Stephen King. One of the inmates nicknames Bourne as "Green Mile." "Publishers Weekly" in their review said that "Picoult bangs out another ripped-from-the-zeitgeist winner. Picoult moves the story along with lively debates about prisoner rights and religion, while plumbing the depths of mother-daughter relationships and examining the literal and metaphorical meanings of having heart." It also says that "The point-of-view switches are abrupt, but this is a small flaw in an impressive book", however, others say that the different viewpoints of the characters provide valuable insight to the story for the reader and abruptness