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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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?
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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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I read The Long Walk under Kings' other name; Richard Bachman when I was just 14. 10 years on and King is still taking up all the room on my bookcase. The way he takes such a simple plot and turns it into a mind gripping psychological thriller every time amazes me. This is such a simple yet brilliant story that all die-hard King fans should read.
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Strange
Interesting book - comparisons with Vietnam War make good food for thought. Richard Bachmann books are different from Stephen Kings normal stories.
Published 1 day ago by Anthea Hilson
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Loved this book
I am a fan of Stephen King and have read many of his books. I will read others from this author.
Published 19 days ago by Chris Smyth
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boring book
Book arrived in good time and good quality. Different to the picture and hard back. Boring story though. Never mind
Published 3 months ago by fee
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Do The Math
Great book, original idea, but.
No one has done the math, or asked how reasonable it is.
An hour of 4mph is 400 calories. Read more
No one has done the math, or asked how reasonable it is.
An hour of 4mph is 400 calories. Read more
Published 4 months ago by Mr. Anthony JONES
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Brutal and superb
I've read most of the other Bachman novels (`Rage', `The Running Man', `Thinner', even `The Regulators' - though the less said about that last one the better), but I've never found... Read more
Published 6 months ago by F.R. Jameson
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One of the best books I've read!
Just want to say that this is one of the best book I've read. It's amazing. It's simple, not too fancy, really direct type of writing, but it touches your inner fears... Read more
Published 12 months ago by Nuno Pires
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Amazing!!!!
This is a truly magnificiant book and is in my top 3 Stephen King books of all time. I was literaly exausted reading it and every character was amazing. Read more
Published 12 months ago by Andy Lovatt
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Superb king
Superb king as usual. Pretty gory in places and thoroughly gripping throughout. I read this as part of the four `Bachman Books' (also including Rage, Roadwork and the Running... Read more
Published 13 months ago by ultimatecreate
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Scary stuff..
I have loved this book for years. The premise of following one boy as he walks, for days, may sound dull. It's not. Read more
Published 15 months ago by R. L. Warren
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"The Hunger Games" Owes Stephen King A Huge THANKS For The Idea
This is a great story. As usual with Stephen King, the characters are very real and you care about the protagonist. Read more
Published 16 months ago by LondonBookLover
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