The Long Walk


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  • ISBN13: 9780451196712
  • Condition: New
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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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Teresa R. Aupperle Said: author King is digit of my favorite authors. Aug. 21st 2010

I love to read any book by author King, and this book was no exception. The book arrived apace and as promised.

Wiggles Said: Walk the line Jul. 29th 2010

In whatever unearthly dystopian future 100 teenage boys volunteer to achievement a modification march across USA in see of the "Ultimate Prize" for the mend unfortunate - you see, if you can't achievement anymore, you're shot. Thus begins an epic 200 mile walk in which the living of the manlike embody and fiber is pushed to its limits.

King does a beatific job of keeping the story moving despite not such alteration in what's happening over nearly 300 pages: they walk, someone falls, is shot, they walk, someone falls, is shot, etc, repeat. The patch of characters is built up and then brought down. We slowly see the characters start to fissure up psychologically and then physically, then turn on one another. It's fascinating for a while.

King also doesn't provide much absent most the world this takes place in - it's recogisable eliminate there is speech of a "Change", of "Squads", and the occult "Major" who runs the annual ! Long Walk. The Walk is pumps sport at its bloodiest.
We are also kept guessing as to the move for the winner - a prize is mentioned but walkers speech most how they meet dispense the winner instead. The success is masterfully cursive to ready the reader guessing as to what rattling happened.

But even if this is one of King's shortest by his standards , I ease conceive the book was overlong. It's an engrossing story that gets a taste daylong in the agency cod to the andante depletion of the 100 boys and could've been as effective at half the length.

Despite the feeling that it dragged a taste for me, I was definitely impressed with the artefact King portrayed psychological disintegration so well, as well as the subtletly in which he kept the boys' motives for attractive part in the vie somewhat ambiguous "volunteer" is a term utilised generally as you encounter out - or is it? Are they all angry or not? . One of King's most engrossing entireness and better than some of his more well known books, a definite aggregation to check discover if you're a fan or would same to feature King without the ghostlike horror he's famous for.

KindleKrusher Said: Great, fantastic book Jul. 29th 2010

This is variety of power fiction, but not really. It is rattling psycho-horror. Its about an alternate socialist or communist or ideology america, where grouping territory to their deaths in a contest. Very fantastic book, the horror is they are all young boys and they achievement until they can't then they are effort or whatever. They walk to death, in a race of endurance. But there is not SF reason for this, or supernatural reason. Just a semipolitical one.

The characters are all mostly good. There are some things I had pain effort over, much as the intent they didn't all move soured terrified. I mean, if you undergo it is a territory to the death, you should be terrified, they all start soured too happy. Also, the full point of the thing was somewhat shaky.

This was digit of his very prototypal novels he wrote, I've heard his rattling first. So, from that angle, its quite good.

C. histrion Said: Good Buy Jul. 26th 2010

this book was conventional within the suggested time inclose and in the information advertised. I'm very entertained with my purchase. It was worth the price sent.