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Summary: I read this in one day and I loved it!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
Review: Ok. 100 kids. 1 race. 1 survivor. 99 corpses. The Long Walk.
This is the story of a boy(wow) named Ray Garrety. Garrety along with 99 other teen/adults make the insane decision of participating in the Long Walk. If you don't know what the Long Walk is, it is an annual race from Maine to New Hampshire. There are as I said 100 competitors. They must maintain a pace of over 4 miles per hour or else you receive a warning. You get 3 warnings. If you get one more warning then they kill you on the spot.
The whole 370 pages is the whole race. At first I was a little disappointed by that. Well, actually it is more than kids walking, but it is about kids bonding together. It is a story of sacrifice and friendship and death(there's Bachman for you).
If there is a flaw in the novel then it would be the absolutely bizarre ending which I did not understand(so sue me). Other than this Bachman's writing was amazing. We sometimes hear about good books where we are actually next to the characters and expieriencing them, but in the Walk we go inside of their MINDS!!
I was Ray myself. It felt like I was playing a video game and I was in control of Ray. We not only communicated with Ray but with all the other Walkers. Each time a Walker is shot it made me cringe especially if it was a Walker that King made us bond with for a while. This book is not an average King book where we get spooks and it is very action packed(IT, Shining,Stand), but rather like the Green Mile. I make the comparison because most of the time in the Green Mile everyone is in the Prison. In fact there is only one time when they leave Prison. In the Green Mile it is much like the Long Walk for the fact that King makes us bond a LOT with everyone.
I read this book starting from 8oclock in the morn and finished it on the same day at 430pm. I don't do that a lot with books. I only read Cujo and the Mile in one day. That fact should tell you that this book is pretty good.
Enjoy!!!!!!!!!!!!
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Summary: The Long Walk: King at his best!!!
Review: I'm a young reader, but don't let that fool you; I have great tastes in books, and Stephen King is my favorite author of all time. I've got to say that this is the best book I've ever read by Stephen King. It's not a "monster-thriller," but it's still creepy... Every year on the first of May, one hundred teenage boys gather at a road. Their mission? One must "outwalk" the other ninety-nine walkers. Whoever's left standing wins. However, consequences do apply... If you fall under speed, stop, walk off the road, or physically assault another walker more than three times, well... You buy your "ticket." Even though the book is about a walk, King makes it so awesome that you will have a pretty tough time getting your eyes off this great book. I've finished it, and at the end it made me think, "Wow, that was a cool idea!" This is a COMPLETELY ORIGINAL STORY, only from the great mind of King himself. It may not be monster-scary, but it still delivers the disturbing lasting after-effect that every one of King's books gives to the reader. I encourage any reader who loves suspense to get this book.
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Summary: Incredible, Amazing, Mind Blowing, Wow!
Review: "The Long Walk" is my favorite novel by Stephen King. Considering he's my favorite author and I've been devouring his work since I was a wee lass of 10, that's saying a lot. It's not exactly classic horror. The horror is mostly in the psychology, rather than in the words themselves. It takes place in the future or perhaps in a parallel world. Much like in "The Running Man," games are played for all to watch. However, in these games the losers die. Eerily like the current reality based game shows, "The Long Walk" is about a contest played by young men in their teens. They consider themselves to be lucky to be chosen to compete. The winner receives fame, fortune, their hearts desire. The concept of the game is to just walk. The 100 contestants walk, and walk, and walk... if one fails to walk, he gets a warning. If he gets 3 warnings, well, he gets his "ticket" and is out of the game. The last remaining "survivor" wins the game. The game is televised and is watched by nearly everyone. People look forward to this game every year and show up alongside the streets where the boys walk to cheer for their favorite contender. You might think it's boring, one book about a bunch of boys and all they do is walk, or don't walk as the case may be. While they walk, they talk. They talk about their deepest desires, their reasons for walking, their relatives, everything except, in most cases, what happens if they don't happen to win.
I read this book for the first time several years ago. I recommend it to everyone and keep going back to reread it time and again. Pick this one up. You won't be sorry.
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Summary: The Long Walk
Review: This book is about a 16 year old boy named Garrtey, who signed up for this walk. The walk is around 180 miles. Garretty and 99 other people were sitting in the grass when the Lieutenant came to give them their numbers. Garrety was number 47. the walk was very difficult, and so were the rules. You couldn't stop, if you get 3 warnings you were shot. If the person needs more water, the solider would go and give them a new canteen. The winner (or the first person to cross) wins a $10,000 cash prize plus a wish of whatever he or she wants.
I think that the book had some strengths because it was pretty good and that it was written pretty good and it described the people really good. When he wrote it, it made you feel like you were actually in the book.
If I were to compare this book to another one, I don't know what I would compare it with, because I haven't read any books about a people walking to and risking their lives trying to get a prize.
I would recommend this book to people who like a little action, and suspense because you don't know what's coming up next. This book has some suspense because you don't know who's going to get shot next, and if who's going to make it.
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Summary: A great read quite under rated
Review: This book blew me away the 1st time i picked it up The story starts somewhere in the future where every year 100 teenage boys are picked to walk (not run) a marathon and if you go below 4 miles more then 4 times you get shot now this might seem a bit lame but not at all what i believe, makes this novel so great is the characters they all have different and unique personalities and they all have stories that they tell to there new found friends which are interesting and actually make you think. Halfway through this novel you will have your favorite walker. If you are a person who enjoys a novel with a creepy setting and an emotinal characters you will love this.
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Summary: Great book but not creepy like most of King's books
Review: This is an excellent book of King and probably the best he's written as Richard Bachman. The flow of the book is perfect, the characters are extremely real and likeable but the scare factor isn't there. Yes, its shocking and weird but not scary like most horror books. If you want a good scare I'd recommend Blood Crazy by Simon Clark or Darker Than Night by Owl Goingback. You don't get much scarier than this.
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Summary: transparent
Review: I'm writing this as a counter-point to other reviews of "The long walk". In many ways, this is typical King; if you like this author, you will probably like this book. In other ways, King has written a truly transparent metaphor for the human condition. The story about a long walk in which you die if you stop walking suggests trite comparisons to our collective journey through life. The ending of the book also conjures up a parallel with the inevitability of death; the winner of the Long Walk doesn't truly win, he dies like the rest of the contestants, much as all of us will ultimately die regardless of our walk through life. Overall, this is the "pulpy" King at his pulpy best, and the "philosophical" King at his philosophical worst.
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Summary: Read it all in one night!
Review: Good read. Really gets you thinking about life and death and all in between. HIghly recommended.
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Summary: A Great Book!
Review: This book was very good. It kept you interested all the way to the end. Although the ending was a little weird (and could have been a little better) the book overall was excellent. I enjoyed it very much and I highly recommend it. You won't be able to put it down!
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Summary: Compelling yet,distracting (A Great Combo)
Review: Stephen King was an anonymous to me before I read this great book. I've seen his movies before but never actually enduldged into one of his text pieces before. This book to me was a great piece of metaphors and similes. A real graphical Novel. I like how he starts his book off as a mystery. You never really know whats going on until around page 40. I like the mystery. It allows me to endulge fully in the words and pictured put into my head. Rather than spelled out for you by most writers.
A group of kids decided they want to walk instead of play like everyone else their own age. A walk that not only endangers their life but, gets lots of attention...not a normal walk. A walk that could and does result in death. A walk that is proven to be a perfect campaign for buisnesses and cheering, but a death march. As the story goes on page by page you begin to feel what the ghost walkers feel. You begin to realize their fear and mistake it as your own. You as the reader are given an easy task, a task that can be completed because of King's writing abilities. That task consist of living the long endorous walk that those are commanded to do. To survive the sureal life that is given to you.
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