- Mass Market Paperback: 384 pages
- Publisher: Penguin Putnam Inc; Open market ed edition (7 Dec 2001)
- Language English
- ISBN-10: 0451196716
- ISBN-13: 978-0451196712
- Product Dimensions: 17 x 10.6 x 2.6 cm
- Average Customer Review: 4.3 out of 5 stars See all reviews (101 customer reviews)
- Amazon Bestsellers Rank: 88,836 in Books (See Top 100 in Books)
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On the first day of May, one hundred teenage boys meet for an event known throughout the country as "The Long Walk." If you break the rules, you get three warnings. If you exceed your limit, what happens is absolutely terrifying.
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The Long Walk - The Ultimate Reality Gameshow,
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This review is from: The Long Walk (Mass Market Paperback)
Originally published as one of the "Bachman Books" The long walk centres around a young man named Ray Garraty who decides to enter a competition called the Long Walk, whereby one hundred competitors literarally walk until they drop, with anyone who drops below four miles per hour being brutally dispatched by a group of heartless soldiers until only one is left. Why compete? Because of the ultimate prize - anything he desires. The book charts his mental decline as he walks hundreds of miles, gradually becoming attatched to some of his fellow walkers, all the while knowing that if he lives, they cannot. Similar in theme to "the Running Man", another book originally released in this compendium, this is King (or Bachman) at his best, with the tale mixing "Stand By Me" style themes of friendship amongst adversity with scenes of total horror. The only question is: how did King think he would continue to write under a psuedonym when these tales of the macabre could so clearly only ever have came from one man?
19 of 19 people found the following review helpful:
5.0 out of 5 stars
Just keep picking em up, and laying em down...,
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The Long Walk is simply exhausting to read. I found myself keep drifting in and out of sleep, needing to eat, drink, and use the bathroom. But most of all, my feet ached a little more after each page. This is not because the book was bad and that I was losing attention, it was simply because I was so involved in the story. I was walking WITH them.The premise is simple and I'm sure if you're reading this review you're aware of what its about. The fact that the story is so simple, allows for it to become deeper on so many different levels.
At the end of the book I found myself questioning everything, not because the ending left me unfulfilled but because it made me realise so much about life. The Long Walk is depressing, exhausting and brutal. But ultimately it is a beautiful story that makes you aware how great it is to be alive. At this time of writing this review (1st August 2007), the rights to making a film have been bought by Frank Darabont, director of the Shawshank Redemption and The Green Mile. I read The Long Walk as part of the Richard Bachman compilation of 4 novels, Rage, The Long Walk, Roadwork and The Running Man.
66 of 69 people found the following review helpful:
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A haunting tale of lost innocence... King at his best,
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This review is from: The Long Walk (Mass Market Paperback)
Before Bachman's untimely death of "cancer of the seudonym", Stephen King wrote some of his most original work. "The Long Walk" is an example. It is like the spitting image of "The Body", since both deal with the same subject: the loss of innoncence. But where "The Body" is an elegy to long gone friends, "The Long Walk" is an scary tale of the erosion of childhood dreams.The premise is simple: 100 teenagers will walk, non-stop, until they drop one by one and are terminated, and the last one standing will be granted whatever his heart fancies. Around it King spools a gothic yarn of classic treatment. The kids that take the Walk go in expecting to fight only physical exhaustion. Slowly, they find out their enemy is a different one: MADNESS. Anybody wishing to take a walk on the dark side, come along. They are about to start...
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