The Long Walk

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Summary: Great story but brief ending
Review: Truly a captivating book that was hard to put down. I enjoyed every step of the long walk. i was a little disappointed with the ending though. I would have liked to have seen what happened to the winner in the short and long term.

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Summary: THIS IS NOT STEPHAN KING!
Review: I CANNOT BELIEVE HE WROTE THIS BORING NO PLOT NO ENDING BOOK. I'VE LOVED ALL HIS BOOKS FOR YEARS AND I JUST CANNOT BELIEVE HE WOULD DISAPPOINT ME ! IT TOOK ME TWO MONTHS TO FORCE MYSELF TO FINISH IT BECAUSE IT WAS SO BORING KIDS GETTING SHOT ON A WALK? WHERE'S THE STORY????? I HOPE BAG OF BONES IS BETTER, I'M READING THAT NEXT.

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Summary: A truly captivating book
Review: The long walk was the type of book you don't want to put down because all of the events are in a sequence and leave you clinging to the next moment. Their was a constant air of suspense and pain. This was an excellent insight on life,and in a way was a parody of life. Excellent book. I recommend it to everyone.

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Summary: It's simply great...yeah...*BUT*...
Review: It was a wonderfully captivating story, scary in its idea, and frightfully haunting. I remember reading this story feverishly day and night, totally enchanted, thinking about it every moment. I was even subconsciously "walking" and "talking" to Ray and them in my sleep (well, not outloud, but thinking it). It's simply great...yeah...*BUT* I totally detested the ending. That's why I gave it a four-star. I don't know if it's my problem or not, but I just hated that kinda ending, ever since when dinos roamed the earth. However, it's still a highly recommanded read.

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Summary: a compelling, thought-provoking book.
Review: Easily the most compelling and thought-provoking novel written by the late Richard Bachman, " The Long Walk " rarely fails to deliver the goods. More a morality tale than a run of the mill horror story, the plot centers around a grotesque contest of will where the winner is rewarded with all that his heart desires, and the losers pay with their lives. The young man at the center of this madness is a frightened 16 year old named Raymond Garraty, who, along with the circle of other young men he befriends during the course of their journey, quickly run the gamut from feeling excitement at the beginning of the walk, to alternately feeling scared, repulsed, and worst of all, tired. Tired is what the reader will feel at the end of this book, having felt like they made the walk themselves. A truly frightening look at what could be in the years to come.

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Summary: Captivating with question marks
Review: As a high school English teacher, I often find myself giving up on books because they are not a "classic." However, King develops a mood in The Long Walk that does not allow you to leave. Just like the boys who start the walk, there is no turning around for you. The story urges you to turn the page and it grabs and holds your attention with its intricate details of the 3 plus day journey to the end that no one could ever comprehend. The end...that is where the question marks lie. I was a little disappointed with the way King ended the story. He did such a fantastic job developing the characters, their relationships and the plot, that I felt a little cheated that the ending could not provide a little more closure. It is definitely open for interpretation, but the lack of details of the much anticipated "end of the walk" leaves the reader feeling like a starving tiger left alone in the wild with nothing to sink its teeth into. The story will definitely satiate your thirst for a fast-moving adventure that illustrates and parallels our violence-thirsty society.

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Summary: It was FABULOUS!
Review: This was the most amazing Stephen King that I've ever read. I couldn't believe how much it moved me and how much I could feel what the characters were feeling. I read this book all in one day, or should I say, night. I spent all night reading it, and I didn't sleep for three nights afterward. Stephen King, you poor soul in the hospital, you are a genious.

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Summary: TERRIBLE!!
Review: Not one thing in this book goes right. From the beginning to the end, it is slow, boring, and uninspired, NOT recommended!!!

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Summary: The Long Walk
Review: I think that this book, "The Long Walk" is a really good book. I haven't finished it yet because my teacher is reading it to us in class and she reads REALLY slow, but we are pretty far and it seems to be pretty good! I actually like this one! We haven't gotten to the end yet, but i have kinda figured out from other reviews that Ray wins. That is good, but I have also heard the ending is bad. Well, if you haven't read this book yet, I strongly recommend it.

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Summary: My legs are tired
Review: This was an excellent read, I had read 95% of it in one day. I have read some criticisms of the ending, but the ending was intelligent. It is ambigious, and seemingly purposefully so. If you want to settle into a happy ending where the knots are fitfully tied, perhaps Judy Blume would be more suiting. I took a different spin on the book, somewhat similar to another critic's note on the simliarity of the Nazi death marches. I found this to maintain a striking similarity to the Vietnam crisis. Consider the parallels: At the beginning, all of the boys are psyched, blind, not knowing what they are getting into. The idea of a 'bang' flag suggests the notion of seeming invincibility. Yet when entered into the "crisis", most are not able to succeed against the enemy (in the case, the road, or, each other). Those in Vietnam who made it home, paid a terrible price, usually in terms of Post Traumatic Stress Syndrome. Consider this ending, where the protagonist's victory doesn't seem to be "all it's cracked up to be", sure he may receive or is intended to receive his "prize", but that is anticlimatic to what he is undergoing...the psychological and physical exhaustion, as well as death if one interprets the ending this way. A fast round of applause for this thought-provoking work.