About this title: On the first day of May, 100 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. Reissue.
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Binding: Mass Market Paperback
Publisher: Signet
Date Published: 1999-04-01
ISBN-13:9780451196712ISBN:0451196716
Description: Good. Cover different than shown; Mild shelf and corner wear with moderate wear to the last 50 pages and cover lower corners; Mild spine creases; Mild reading crease front cover; Minor tanning and mild soiling to page edges; Mild rubbing and wear to covers and spine; ** Free USPS tracking and confirm on US orders ** read more
Binding: Mass Market Paperback
Publisher: Signet, Bergenfield, New Jersey, U.S.A.
Date Published: 1999
ISBN-13:9780451196712ISBN:0451196716
Description: Very Good. 12mo-over 6¾"-7¾" tall. Wraps have faint wear, spine is unbent. Pages are clean & text is free from markings. All pages secure in binding. read more
Binding: Mass Market Paperback
Publisher: Signet
Date Published: 1999
ISBN-13:9780451196712ISBN:0451196716
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Binding: Mass-market paperback
Publisher: Signet Books, New York
Date Published: 1999
ISBN-13:9780451196712ISBN:0451196716
Description: New. No dust jacket as issued. (102906) Mass market paperback is brand new in Near Mint condition with slight age browing outside page edges. Mass market (rack) paperback. Glued binding. 370 p. Audience: General/trade. read more
Binding: Mass-market paperback
Publisher: Signet Books, New York
Date Published: 1999
ISBN-13:9780451196712ISBN:0451196716
Description: New. No dust jacket as issued. (112706) Mass market paperback is brand new in Near Mint condition. Mass market (rack) paperback. Glued binding. 370 p. Audience: General/trade. read more
Edition: Fifth Printing
Binding: Mass Market Paperback
Publisher: Signet
Date Published: 1999
ISBN-13:9780451196712ISBN:0451196716
Description: With an introduction by the author, "The Importance of Being Bachman. " Unread, near fine copy with slight aging to paper. 370 pp. read more
Edition: First edition.
Binding: Mass-market paperback
Publisher: Signet Book
Date Published: 1979
ISBN-13:9780451087546ISBN:0451087542
Description: Fair. No dust jacket as issued. Ex-library. Very Rare paperback originally published under Richard Bachman. Library markings. Readable. Slight cover damage. Mass market (rack) paperback. Glued binding. Audience: General/trade. read more
Binding: Mass Market Paperback
Publisher: Signet
Date Published: 1999-04-01
ISBN-13:9780451196712ISBN:0451196716
Description: Good. Mass Market Paperback. General paperback wear, bends in spine, possible bends from reading on the cover, and may have a bookstore stamp inside cover. Quick response! read more
Binding: Mass Market Paperback
Publisher: Signet
Date Published: 1999
ISBN-13:9780451196712ISBN:0451196716
Description: Good. Shelf wear shown. Goodwillnyonline carries a wide range of quality new and used items at competitive prices. Goodwillnyonline is operated by Goodwill Industries of Greater New York & Northern New Jersey. A major provider of services for people with disabilities and other barriers to employment. read more
"I first read this in the Bachman books and loved it strait away. In a lot of ways it's hard to explain why I love it so much when I often find it inherently childish (being about 14-16 year olds I guess that goes with the territory).
I suppose that as always I love the tone of the narrator and I find the characters well draw, believable and ultimately doomed.
The plot is simplicity itself. In the future there is a high stakes state sponsored competition where 100 boys set off on a competitive walk. If you drop below 4mph *BLAM* you're dead. Last boy walking wins everything he wants for the rest of his life.
Along the way various boy reveal coping mechanisms, personality traits and motivations for participating on the Walk yet you know that all but one will not see the last page.
I enjoyed it that much that despite already having it as part of the Bachman books I bought a sepert stand alone copy."
"I have heard about Stephen King, but never read his books. Until my English teacher introduced us to distopian literature. I didn't know what it was so the teacher showed us the book called "Anthem" by Ayn Rand. It is interesting though and I learned a lot on how Rand sees the world. So our teacher told us we had a project over what distopian book we want to read. She was introducing us some books that she had and what really caught my eye was the "Long Walk" by Stephen King. The cover looked so interesting that I was anxious to read it and be the first one to know what is it about. It took me a while to get the book but I finally got it by going to the libarary I thought I will never find it. When I openned the book I saw a whole introduction and it almost took up the whole book. I read part if the intro but never understood it so I skipped it and noticed that it was not part of the story. When I finally got the 1st chapter, I started to read... This book has tought me a lot about life such as... caring for others, you should be thankful for what you have, espcially being thankful for what you have. Why? well some people feel like they need more because of envy towards others. This book talks about this guys who enter a competition to win the great prize but their are some consequences like if you stop walking you will get shot! In the beginning of theis book the main character always talks baout winning the prize and why he enttered. Later in the book he doupts about why he entered. Was it because he wanted to die? or was it because he hated his life? I didn't know why he entered because he had a mother, a step dad, a girlfriend, a home, education, friends, etc. Until he always talked about his life which was kind of dramatic and met up. Somehow he still find a way to fix it. i didn't know if he was going crazy or that he had opened his eyes but he always kept sayinghe missed his home and mised his family. He regrets of joining in the competition well first of all you die, second you loose your head, third you loose your friends. In my point of view I have learned that I should be thankful to what I have by just reading a fictional book sometimes I think if it was real (good thing it isn't). You know you get tired by hearing no everytime you want something because your parents can't afford it or just because your friend has it. But, there is still one no they can't say and it is your life! Yes your life! This book has tought me to be happy that I'm alive. By just reading the character's thoughts I can see he misses being alive and should be grateful to have someone that loves him. Still... I don't know but he fears of death because after he wins he still thinks he should keep walking until he lives and that is were the book ends."
"The Long Walk was a slow book. The story was 5 days long, but it felt like forever because it was very redundant. However, it was still an enjoyable read. The book was about 100 boys who had to walk in a race called The Long Walk. (No girls were a part of this race.) Each boy would get three warnings if they were to stop during the race. After that, they would get ticketed - shot dead. The subject was very basic, but Stephen King made the storyline eventful and semi-climatic. It wasn't an especially exciting book, but it was alright. There was an especially shocking part in the book, though, that revealed who the Major's, the man in charge of this race, son was. The ending was very expected. The main character won the long walk accordingly. I would recommend this book to anyone who is patient and has an eye for, or loves, detail."
"Having been put off early King-writing-as-Bachman books by reading the lacklustre RAGE, it took me a while to summon up the courage to try the second book in the Bachman Books anthology, but in the end I went for it. I'm glad I did, because THE LONG WALK is one of the bleakest and just plain nastiest stories that King has ever written.
It's deceptively simple, about kids walking a gruelling marathon; if they go below four miles an hour, they get killed. This idea is perfectly executed years before film-makers picked up on the 'speed kills' idea for SPEED.
There's no purple prose or monsters, just a gruelling, never-ending walk, by the end of which you'll feel as exhausted as the central character. I slept for hours and hours after finishing this one. It's bleak, harrowing and extremely uncomfortable, and it's a classic."
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