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Summary: Like watching a car wreck in slow motion.
Review: Reading this book was like watching a car crash, you want to but you can't look away! This book was disturbing on a number of levels. You begin to feel the futility and exaustion of the boys as the book drags on, but you just can't stop reading until you reach the end, if you reach the end, but then what...?
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Summary: Humanity at Its Worst
Review: It's almost comical. The way a parent would let their childjoin in with 99 other boys just to let them die. Life is precious andthey threw it all away at the hope of gaining everything. I was entrigued at how vulnerable we all were at that age and how the very thought of our dreams coming true would drive us to fight for our lives. King created a novel that stripped the mask from humanity and revealed the underbelly of society. To sacrifice your own child to a cause that wasn't worth his life. Like many others,I felt that the ending was disappointing. But I actually felt something for the characters that many other novels lack; emotion. Conratulations to King on a book that will anger even the calmest of people and humble the most offensive. This is life in its raw form. Bravo.
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Summary: STEPHEN KING AT HIS BEST
Review: THIS IS BY FAR THE BEST WRITING STEPHEN KING HAS EVER DONE.THE MOST GRIPING TALE IVE EVER READ. I ORIGINALY READ THIS STORY IN THE BACHMAN BOOKS MANY YEARS AGO. I GAVE THE BOOK AWAY AND HAVE BEEN LOOKING FOR "THE LONG WAlK" EVER SINCE. THIS STORY WILL KEEP YOU ON THE EDGE OF YOUR SEAT AND YOUR IMAGINATION!
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Summary: Stephem King never ceases to amaze me!
Review: My first King book was "The Stand". From that day on, I've been a huge fan. "The Long Walk" was exhausting for me. It felt as if I walked every mile with the boys. Many people disliked the ending, and at first, so did I. However, after further thought, it made sense. Ray couldn't have done anything but keep on going. Thank you Mr. King, for writing such incredible, unforgettable books! I can't wait to start the next one. By the way, I am anxiously awaiting the next in the Dark Tower series!
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Summary: One of the greatest books i've ever read.
Review: I thought it was a great book for a bunch of reasons. For one, it kept you on the edge of your seat screaming for more. It also thoroughly explained how the people felt. The book was non-stop action. If i had to put this in a genre, i would say it was a thriller. Anyone who enjoys thrillers or just likes to sit down and read for hours will really like this book.
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Summary: wow
Review: This book was really, really, really creepy. Not many stories get to me, but boy this one sure did
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Summary: Very dark, disturbing, and REALLY GOOD.
Review: The Long Walk is perhaps the darkest, most "down" King novel I have read (including some other Bachman books). It is, however, very well done and surely a must-read for King fans. Not scary so much as exhausting and utterly claustrophobic and linear, The Long Walk will keep you reading.Because if you stop three times, they'll come and shoot you.
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Summary: An amazing story
Review: I am a huge SK fan, and am on my way to catching up with him in terms of reading every book he has had published. Anyway, The Long Walk is definitely the one story I note as my absolute favourite SK story whenever I am asked (and I really like most of them). I cried at the end (as I do with many), but I felt really attached to the main character, it's like he was a real person. I became attached to many of the characters, and everytime one of them "bit the dust" it really hurt. But the whole point of the story as I see it was to try and make us see that as human beings, as unfortunate as it may be, we might all be able to do the same thing if it means our life over someone else's - meaning that we might all just keep going right on by someone that was our friend, "dying", if it was what we needed to do to "win". The story really has to be read to get the true feeling, I can't explain it well enough here.
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Summary: horrible but tasty
Review: I think this could have happened 10 years ago, maybe in the mid-eighties but no-way no-how today. Back then violence was exploited to the max as entertainment but now after Columbine, violence is now on the politically taboo list. If someone tried to organize a competition like this, they would be chased out of town, and character-assassinated for life. The story was nice and tasty and filled you up like a good chocolate malt milkshake. I think that the story is a metaphor for how 1980's society reveled in violence and killing for fun and profit. They say that a society's view of the future reflects the society's present mentality (remember The Running Man - both the short story and the movie?). Super story - a good snapshot of how we used to condone violence and pain back in the 1980's.
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Summary: mesmerizing , thought provoking. One of King's best stories.
Review: I have read this story twice over the past month and find myself still troubled about the prospect of living in a twisted society that would condone The Long Walk. The story effectively made me feel the emotional and physical anguish of what it would be like to compete in such a walk. As far as the ending is concerned, I at first felt as if I was slapped in the face after page after page of building up to the ending. After careful thought, though, I understood the authors intent and I thinnkI would also, like Garrarty, keep on walkng...........
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