The Long Walk by Stephen King as Richard Bachman

[Orioles4Life21]

This Summer I read The Long Walk by Stephen King. It was a pretty interesting read. It's about a competition where 100 teenage boys like 16 or 17 go on a long walk. They have to consistently walk at 4 mph and they get 3 warnings if they slow down, fall, ect.. After 3 warnings they "buy their ticket" which essentially means shot to death by the soldiers that watch over them. Last man standing wins and gets whatever he desires for the rest of his life. Anybody heard of it or read it? I actually thought it was pretty good and my explanation probably didn't do it justice.

[Stotle]

This Summer I read The Long Walk by Stephen King. It was a pretty interesting read. It's about a competition where 100 teenage boys like 16 or 17 go on a long walk. They have to consistently walk at 4 mph and they get 3 warnings if they slow down, fall, ect.. After 3 warnings they "buy their ticket" which essentially means shot to death by the soldiers that watch over them. Last man standing wins and gets whatever he desires for the rest of his life. Anybody heard of it or read it? I actually thought it was pretty good and my explanation probably didn't do it justice.

Really liked it. Read it four summers ago while in Mexico for a week (along with three other Bachman books). If you can take "crushingly depressing" then the Bachman books are really great reads -- especially if you are generally a King fan.

My only gripe with "The Long Walk" was the 4 mph limit. I had a hard time believing people were walking that fast for as long as the book lasted.

[Orioles4Life21]

Really liked it. Read it four summers ago while in Mexico for a week (along with three other Bachman books). If you can take "crushingly depressing" then the Bachman books are really great reads -- especially if you are generally a King fan.

My only gripe with "The Long Walk" was the 4 mph limit. I had a hard time believing people were walking that fast for as long as the book lasted.

Yea I know whenever Im walking I wonder how fast 4 mph is

[Stotle]

Yea I know whenever Im walking I wonder how fast 4 mph is

Set a treadmill to "4". It's crazy fast -- made me think King wasn't familiar with how fast that was when he wrote it.

[Orioles4Life21]

Do you feel that Garraty died at the end like I did?

[Stotle]

Do you feel that Garraty died at the end like I did?

It's been a while since I read it, but if I remember it's really abrupt -- like wraps in a couple pages after Steepins bites it. I don't remember if I thought Garraty died or just snapped and went crazy.

[Orioles4Life21]

It's been a while since I read it, but if I remember it's really abrupt -- like wraps in a couple pages after Steepins bites it. I don't remember if I thought Garraty died or just snapped and went crazy.

Yea it's kinda left open to interpretation...it says something along the lines of he suddenly felt the need to run! or something like that and it ends.