The Long Walk
Warning: minor spoilers included
I had started reading Dreamcatchers, but I decided to switch to The Long Walk by Stephen King at Rob’s urging. King wrote The Long Walk under the pseudonym Richard Bachman.
The story is about Ray Garraty, who is 1 of 100 teenage boys participating in an annual walking contest. The Walkers receive warnings for offenses such as walking too slowly or leaving the course. If they go an hour without receiving a warning, then one of their warnings gets taken away. If a Walker receives 4 warnings, then he gets his ticket and is taken out of the race. You quickly discover that the way he is taken out is by getting shot by soldiers. I really enjoyed reading the story. It’s a short novel, so it didn’t take a long time to read.
A while back I had heard about a Japanese movie called Battle Royale and it has been in my Netflix queue since then. Reading The Long Walk made me think of it and now I have moved it closer to the top of the queue. I hope I like it as much as I liked The Long Walk.
Lately it seems like every time I mark something off the list, I add more.
- Dreamcatchers, Stephen King
- Ender’s Game, Orson Scott Card
- Summer of the Monkeys, Wilson Rawls
- The Hedge Knight, George R.R. Martin
- The Sworn Sword, George R.R. Martin
- The Taking, Dean Koontz
- Timeline, Michael Crichton
- Snow Crash, Neal Stephenson
- Fast Food Nation, Eric Schlosser
- Harry Potter and the Deathly Hallows, J.K. Rowling
- On Bullshit, Harry G. Frankfurt
- On Truth, Harry G. Frankfurt
- The Long Walk, Richard Bachman (Stephen King)
- His Majesty’s Dragon, Naomi Novik
- Throne of Jade, Naomi Novik
- Black Powder War, Naomi Novik
- What Would Jefferson Do?: A Return to Democracy, Thom Hartmann
- A Wrinkle in Time, Madeleine L’Engle
- Titus Andronicus, William Shakespeare
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