One of my favorite King novels. It's so overlooked
@MrRadiantMan6 жыл бұрын
One of my personal favorite Stephen King books and imo it's way better than Rage.
@DonPeyote420
4 жыл бұрын
agreed
@ethorii6 жыл бұрын
I don't think the larger society is important to the story. It's clear that the society is totalitarian. It's a great vehicle to study psychology. Endurance, fear, loss, regret. No other story i know of is like it. It's an increadably compelling and unusual, harsh yet beautiful tale. I loved how it dawned on me as it did the walkers, just how bad it will get as the miles and miles go by. Most of us have walked a long way, like 15 or 20 miles at once, and been tired and glad it was over. Few people have wondered what happens when the walk goes 100, 200, 300 miles. It is intense torture that King masterfully fleshes out.
@darksiderulz523 жыл бұрын
It's been a while since I read the long walk. But my thoughts were these boys volunteer, because as a teenager you don't truly grasp your own mortality, and so they sign up for the fame, the prize, and the adventure. And subconsciously because most of these young men have a death wish. And from the side of the state, I took it that the state views this as an easy way to get rid of 100 people they consider to have the future potential to cause problems for the state's militaristic system. And I think really it's also a metaphor for life, how our friends come and go. Why are we here? Why do we die? And how all of our deaths are pretty ugly for the most part, etc. Those are just my thoughts, I enjoyed your review a lot, thank you for posting it.
@ambehak47585 жыл бұрын
The story is basically symbolising life as one long journey. Each of us on our own paths and how along the way we come across people we care about and lose along the way. There is a paragraph in the final chapter of this story in the 3rd and final part where it is only Garraty, McVries and Stebbins and they are not far from Boston, which basically reveals the story's underlying message. Right at the beginning of the chapter: 'They were forty miles from Boston. "Tell us a story, Garraty," Stebbins said abruptly. "Tell us a story that will take our minds off our troubles." He had aged unbelievably, Stebbins was an old man. "Yeah," McVries said. He also looked ancient and wizened.' Garraty has seen his close friends reach old age and are close to death. The Walk is 5 days long. I believe each of those days represents each significant stage of your life, as many of us luckily live close to 100 years old. The first day may possibly represent from age 0-25, 2nd day age 25-50, 3rd day age 50-75, 4th day age 75-100. And i believe the 5th and final day where they are all dead (Garraty's ending is open to interpretation) represents death, the end of life.
@derinaries
5 жыл бұрын
ambeh ak47 That is an interesting interpretation.
@walterjose1104
2 жыл бұрын
Great anayzaltions .
@jeffreypeterson32385 жыл бұрын
My favorite Bachman/King Book. Should have been a movie a long time ago.
@Stretch213
3 жыл бұрын
Dude really. It makes the most sense .it's easy to do
@jeffreypeterson3238
3 жыл бұрын
@@Stretch213 Would be super low budget with huge financial return.
@95kingslayer5 жыл бұрын
I was so salty that this book had 18 chapters. So close to 19! lol
@raydiaz2772
4 жыл бұрын
Probably was his point lol
@megadev90994 жыл бұрын
When that first walker gets ticketed was such a great moment to read.
@Cosmogne2 жыл бұрын
i'm pretty sure this is connected to the larger king universe because in the long walk theres an old guy with a sign that complains about giving away the panama canal, and in christine the old guy with the car complains about people WANTING to give away the canal. so the long walk would be AFTER christine
@mikefitzgerald413 жыл бұрын
4 mph was too fast to be realistic Should have been 3 mph
@DonPeyote4204 жыл бұрын
I think that the Long Walk has something to do with historical events that lead to the installation of military authoritarian regime in America. Maybe it represented some sort of event that had something to do with ending of WW2: like, for example, maybe the Germans marched prisoners for miles, trail of tears style, and the one who outlasted them all was the Major, so he decided he'd want to pass this rite of passage so to speak to the next generation. It's interesting to speculate about the world in which this takes place.
@kayligo
4 жыл бұрын
It was about Vietnam
@RedSue Жыл бұрын
Well, my daughter and I discussed the book, and based on the time it was written and the fact SK was in highschool at that time, we came to the conclusion that this is a story about the pointless Vietnam war. It all fits.
@jeffhearn36584 жыл бұрын
Re-read this recently and really enjoyed it again and wanted to hear more on others thoughts about the book. Great job, appreciate your insights.
@Bhair2066 жыл бұрын
One of my favorite Bachmann books, great overview
@backup_r54016 жыл бұрын
Great review. Thanks!
@southernstacker73154 жыл бұрын
Glad this is getting a movie. Battle Royale reminds me of this.
@jonathansoto69846 жыл бұрын
You should do a review for The Shining
@bishiwishii
6 жыл бұрын
Yes, I'd love to see a review of The Shining too
@cartooningfanart5 жыл бұрын
Brillant review 👍 please make more stephen king review
@scottyb0032 жыл бұрын
I did find my copy of the running man at a used book store, and it's in very good condition.
@poochie90016 жыл бұрын
Please do Rage next It was the first book I read voluntarily (out of school)
@Mumscup3 жыл бұрын
A Vietnamese war tale from USA side ,Shown on tv, ever lasting death and feck up s on show on Tv ,young men volunteers,nothing gained but blood pain pressure and death.Clever review matey.
@petergresham8532 Жыл бұрын
Great review frosty, can you comment on the 4mph speed for the walk and what your thoughts are on king choosing that speed?
@Allwillbewellnallwillbewelland3 жыл бұрын
So I'm at minute 13, and still not getting the sense that this book is being understood as the basic allegory for "the road of life " and christianity that it is.... and its pretty simply put- Garrety and the rest can't explain why they're there- except for stebbins. Because stebbins' father is the boss so he's willing to sacrifice himself to see if daddy loves him. Jesus- god thing. Everyone else does in pursuit of happiness and the prize (heaven) Even though no winner lives. Voluntarily/ annually= we live year after year. Welcome to life. You eat, shit, walk, work, die. There's your high school book report. Oh, and it was the figure of death/reaper he saw at the end that was walking ahead of him after he won, so he could win "... if he could only catch up to him..."
@andrewbetrosian27845 жыл бұрын
I have copy with 433 pages to long walk
@electrichorseman71583 жыл бұрын
One my favorite books .thank you for your review
@catrinadollsandsugarskulls98656 жыл бұрын
I have the same exact copy of the bachman books the black and gold. Thabk God for used book stores. I try to buy all of my books used if I can.
@Ang417
6 жыл бұрын
CatrinaDollsAndSugarSkulls yep I found a used copy as well 😊
@turtleanton6539
5 жыл бұрын
I hope I can find it
@DroTalks6 жыл бұрын
Great review, this would make a great movie, a damn great movie. Just need to answer the why of the walk at the end and boom, box office glory :)
@cyberpimp295 жыл бұрын
Frank Darabont has the rights - I wish he would hurry up and adapt this to a film already! Hes the right director; come on man!
@John_Longbow
5 жыл бұрын
André Øverdal has got the go ahead to direct a movie based on this book.
@cyberpimp29
5 жыл бұрын
@@John_Longbow yes sir, I read that also. As to why Darabont dragged his feet on this, I have no idea. Im thrilled this will be made into a film; I wish it was Darabont...
@thomasferriday6 жыл бұрын
I would greatly enjoy if you reviewed Christine. The film that accompanies it isn't bad either.
@InKY095 жыл бұрын
I felt liked getting through the book was a slog, which is appropriate given the subject matter. Since the book was written in the ‘70’s, the walkers’ dialog is dated - and I doubt that many kids and teens would have been quoting passages of poetry or pulling authors’ names out of their heads in any era. While a few hints about the walkers’ universe were dropped here and there, I would have loved for more to have been revealed; top it off with an abrupt and inconclusive ending, and I was left regretting the time I invested in this book.
@quincydewhart93613 жыл бұрын
Oh! And do the joe hill books oneday brother!
@FINALSTANDFOLEYOFFICIAL6 жыл бұрын
Great video man, gonna find myself a copy.
@javeydones51634 жыл бұрын
This book was about a 6/10 for me. It was not bad. My biggest gripe is that due the story simply being about a long walk, the story is told almost entirely through dialogue and it becomes a little difficult to figure out who’s talking sometimes. We hear lines from like 80% of the boys who walked, it gets confusing and a little boring when the dialogue isn’t broken up by some other event. The events that break up the dialogue typically are one of the boys getting their ticket and dying. I guess simply put, the book is a bit slow for me.
@ambehak4758
4 жыл бұрын
Agreed. I kept thinking who is talking right now and i kept trying to remember which name belonged to which number. There are parts in the middle of this story where it just feels like Stephen King is waffling on for no reason and it kind of makes you lose interest.
@AmyBlackRoseCena
8 ай бұрын
I suggest looking into the audiobook cuz that's how I've been " reading it " and I've already listened to it three times because I in a weird sense identify with it right now because my legs and lower back are practical useless so I feel for these boys when their bodies start to go out on them. Even when you listen to the book yes it is hard to keep track of who's talking sometimes, but I believe it would be easier as opposed to reading the book in print because each person has their own distinct voice
@saucymauve6 жыл бұрын
Im looking forward to seeing the movie:)
@cyberpimp29
5 жыл бұрын
Someday...I hope....
@gayleoverly76133 жыл бұрын
I think Ray bought the ticket a few miles back. Notice how many warnings he got away with
@ladyyuna20005 жыл бұрын
I have that book but I didn't read it yet I am still reading Doctor Sleep by Stephen King.
@thuggedoutwhiteboy42036 жыл бұрын
Thank you so much I think that the long walk is About how most of us will die in war
@walterjose11042 жыл бұрын
I was taught Stephen King when I was first in and Junior high by a friend of mine of their name Edward Easton they used to read to me because I had hard time interpreting some of the English words from there I became a tremendous fan of the books and of the writings from what I noticed about the writing with Stephen King he puts in metaphors in that has to do with the story, but in a alternate universe I "ll give you an idea of what I mean when you talk about the road ,maximum overdrive immediately came to my mind ( not to mention chirstine also)then I think about what you said with the tower if we go back and we look at the The dark Tower there's a lot of statements that mcconnelly(!in the film the dark Tower) makes that he says oh there's different universes and different chapters of how things are working we also hear about this when he speaks about it and it and it he knows how to get into your deepest fears and and knows how to get to you the reason I say it is also because we hear about it also and graveyard shift where they speak in the book it's a bat but in the movie it's a rat .but I believe a lot of these side stories that like you said the world war II and things like that they're the alternate universe of what would be good if the tower didn't exist and my opinion maybe it's true maybe it's not if we go back and look also at the mist when they explain it like the soldiers explained in the film the mist that they were working on some time portal dimension to open and get through different dimension s also to go back to maximum overdrive the reason the machines had taken over was due to the fact that Russian satellite was hit by alien asteroid or meteor now we go back and we look at creepshow the farmer is hit by the asteroid also and he didn't listen which stars Stephen King( can i get a ride lady 🤣😭🥴) and if we look at cat's eye when the guy try to stop smoking nobody knew how that one company or corporation got all that information to kind of figure out how this guy was smoking still and how to get to his wife and everything so, in my opinion I believe the dark Tower serves as the center of evil and that the leader of the dark Tower sends out people from different I would say chapters to go through different dimensions to cause different mayhem in different dimensions and different places and my opinion this might be way off but this is the only way I can understand or I think why Stephen King puts these weird stories that are from the stories a story within the stories you like to say. Never know .
@steviejohn95022 жыл бұрын
will be made into a movie coming out soonish
@welovetofloat6 жыл бұрын
I want to search for this collection!
@kayjay1196
5 жыл бұрын
They have it at a library at my college. A little chilling since Rage is in it. Lol.
@frankatchison16175 жыл бұрын
Survivor type up there!, Strawberry Spring.,Old is good!
@jomic90606 жыл бұрын
u mean listening to this is like taking a non stop long walk to boston?
@katkal35 жыл бұрын
i didnt get the ending , where protagonist(cant remember the kids name) wins race and just keeps walking and walking , maybe im dense but i didnt get waht happened. so it marred the experience but i really dug Roadwork. Such a sad story and i love sad stories
@tkurz3071
5 жыл бұрын
That is why I personally love the Bachman Books...None of "Bachman's" stories have happy endings.
@SoftwareAgentsTV
5 жыл бұрын
I think the point is that winning the race doesn't matter because Garrity went nuts from the stress of the Walk.
@kayligo
4 жыл бұрын
Because by then all he knew was that he better walk or he’ll die so he just keeps going
@bruhmoment552
3 жыл бұрын
He was too far gone to stop walking. All he knew by the end of the walk was "You walk or you die" so Ray walked until he couldn't anymore. I think partly thay Ray was too far gone such as hank to where he could only walk and nothing else but maybe also partly that he thought that even if he was the last man walking, that he would be shot dead.
@BLINDTUBEMARES Жыл бұрын
Love it. I always thought it was about Vietnam (or war in general) or you could say it's about capitalism- survival of the fittest at any cost for the ultimate prize
@AmyBlackRoseCena
8 ай бұрын
Survival of the fittest definitely sounds accurate, but then again a 5-day long walk through multiple weather conditions and just the exertion on your body can turn the fittest person into a shell of himself in almost no time as we see.
@BLINDTUBEMARES
8 ай бұрын
That's it. A simple idea for a horrific story@@AmyBlackRoseCena
@AmyBlackRoseCena
8 ай бұрын
@@BLINDTUBEMARES Especially what it does to your mind as we see with Barkavoch (sorry about the spelling, I only have the audiobook version)
@BLINDTUBEMARES
8 ай бұрын
I'm inspired! I'm going to give it listen. Last time I read this was about thirty years ago!@@AmyBlackRoseCena
@jlumley11 ай бұрын
no spoiler alert at 14:12
@glassman86974 жыл бұрын
I think it’s sad that Stephen King says he believes in God , but refuses to practice the Faith. Yet he puts a lot of spiritual topics in his books...
@DroTalks6 жыл бұрын
Everything comes from and goes to the tower :)
@steveniccolai44726 жыл бұрын
God if this is only your second favorite Bachman book then I definitely have to read Rage
@AmyBlackRoseCena
8 ай бұрын
Good luck finding it. Like he said, after the Sandy Hook shooting King took it out of print and I can't even find it on audible which I find really insane
@Reneebenson2 жыл бұрын
Please tell me garrity lives
@carterdahl96544 жыл бұрын
The average walking speed is 3.1 mph so that sucks
@amayacomics4 жыл бұрын
Thanks!
@Stretch2133 жыл бұрын
Bachman s are classics
@quincydewhart93613 жыл бұрын
Please do Regulators!!!!!! Frosty!
@quincydewhart93613 жыл бұрын
And the Stand!!!!!!!
@quincydewhart9361
3 жыл бұрын
I think you do that one! The stand
@saeed70992 жыл бұрын
Thinner is the best of the lot. Easily
@wendyadams85495 жыл бұрын
Finale talk of a movie 👍👍👍👍👍👍😀
@frankatchison16175 жыл бұрын
AWESOME!!!😛
@elichaitman32945 жыл бұрын
And blaze
@priest18965 жыл бұрын
Good book 👌🏾
@jazzsolocup32915 жыл бұрын
The Long Walk literally sent me into massive depression lol
@turtleanton6539
5 жыл бұрын
Hahahahahahahha I can see that
@TheJericho11233 жыл бұрын
thanks for spoiling the ending.
@Reneebenson2 жыл бұрын
U do know who richard backman is right??
@WildNorthWestern4 жыл бұрын
They chose to do the walk cause they were ready to die and they had non purpose left in life so they chose to do the long walk. Stebbins tells garrity in the book. Now garrity you have to look deeper and I think it's because his father gets squated.
@kayligo
4 жыл бұрын
I think that’s why Garraty wins, he has something to live for.
@SoftwareAgentsTV5 жыл бұрын
a gutwrenching book
@Reneebenson2 жыл бұрын
I didnt think that was very clear
@JustinMBailey6 жыл бұрын
....dude either you’re having the worst case of indigestion ever or it’s time for you to quit smoking my friend, you sound like Vader after he killed the Emperor and saved his son Luke. PS I’ve been listening to the STAND on audio this month and though I feel perhaps that it is Stephen King’s most ambitious and intricate of novels I love IT 10 times more....But what is sticking with me is the biblical implications, what is sticking with me is mother Abigail’s speech on how pride is the mother of all sins and theft is the father. Even though King was never a conventionally biblical chap he really tapped into some Old Testament veins with that one didn’t he? You ever read Pillars of The Earth? It was written by an atheist who simply loved cathedral architecture and yet he had written one of the greatest and most spiritually fulfilling novels I have ever read. I hope you’re not a correction officer working midnights that would suck....but when the cons sleep it sure gives you some good reading time.
@Felixkeeg5 жыл бұрын
I really should pick up the Tower series, I suppose...
@DonPeyote4204 жыл бұрын
It's a shame that King had seemingly lost his edge after the Bachman books and never regained it. He even coped out on Rage, never republishing it ever again, because it "may inspire school shootings".
@playermartin2866 жыл бұрын
Just like needful things it gets very repetitive after a time. Just my opinion
@T-Hyde6 жыл бұрын
Stephen King's The Hunger Games, basically 😂😂
@patcoston
5 жыл бұрын
You can also compare it to Battle Royale, but King was thinking of the story in high-school, then wrote it as a freshman in college from 1966 to 1967, so long before those stories. Those may have been inspired by The Long Walk.
@katkal3
5 жыл бұрын
maybe Running man is more like hunger games
@thomasmccann3679 Жыл бұрын
It fucking sucked. Was good for the first 50 pages and then any suspension of disbelief goes out the window.
Пікірлер: 123
One of my favorite King novels. It's so overlooked
One of my personal favorite Stephen King books and imo it's way better than Rage.
@DonPeyote420
4 жыл бұрын
agreed
I don't think the larger society is important to the story. It's clear that the society is totalitarian. It's a great vehicle to study psychology. Endurance, fear, loss, regret. No other story i know of is like it. It's an increadably compelling and unusual, harsh yet beautiful tale. I loved how it dawned on me as it did the walkers, just how bad it will get as the miles and miles go by. Most of us have walked a long way, like 15 or 20 miles at once, and been tired and glad it was over. Few people have wondered what happens when the walk goes 100, 200, 300 miles. It is intense torture that King masterfully fleshes out.
It's been a while since I read the long walk. But my thoughts were these boys volunteer, because as a teenager you don't truly grasp your own mortality, and so they sign up for the fame, the prize, and the adventure. And subconsciously because most of these young men have a death wish. And from the side of the state, I took it that the state views this as an easy way to get rid of 100 people they consider to have the future potential to cause problems for the state's militaristic system. And I think really it's also a metaphor for life, how our friends come and go. Why are we here? Why do we die? And how all of our deaths are pretty ugly for the most part, etc. Those are just my thoughts, I enjoyed your review a lot, thank you for posting it.
The story is basically symbolising life as one long journey. Each of us on our own paths and how along the way we come across people we care about and lose along the way. There is a paragraph in the final chapter of this story in the 3rd and final part where it is only Garraty, McVries and Stebbins and they are not far from Boston, which basically reveals the story's underlying message. Right at the beginning of the chapter: 'They were forty miles from Boston. "Tell us a story, Garraty," Stebbins said abruptly. "Tell us a story that will take our minds off our troubles." He had aged unbelievably, Stebbins was an old man. "Yeah," McVries said. He also looked ancient and wizened.' Garraty has seen his close friends reach old age and are close to death. The Walk is 5 days long. I believe each of those days represents each significant stage of your life, as many of us luckily live close to 100 years old. The first day may possibly represent from age 0-25, 2nd day age 25-50, 3rd day age 50-75, 4th day age 75-100. And i believe the 5th and final day where they are all dead (Garraty's ending is open to interpretation) represents death, the end of life.
@derinaries
5 жыл бұрын
ambeh ak47 That is an interesting interpretation.
@walterjose1104
2 жыл бұрын
Great anayzaltions .
My favorite Bachman/King Book. Should have been a movie a long time ago.
@Stretch213
3 жыл бұрын
Dude really. It makes the most sense .it's easy to do
@jeffreypeterson3238
3 жыл бұрын
@@Stretch213 Would be super low budget with huge financial return.
I was so salty that this book had 18 chapters. So close to 19! lol
@raydiaz2772
4 жыл бұрын
Probably was his point lol
When that first walker gets ticketed was such a great moment to read.
i'm pretty sure this is connected to the larger king universe because in the long walk theres an old guy with a sign that complains about giving away the panama canal, and in christine the old guy with the car complains about people WANTING to give away the canal. so the long walk would be AFTER christine
4 mph was too fast to be realistic Should have been 3 mph
I think that the Long Walk has something to do with historical events that lead to the installation of military authoritarian regime in America. Maybe it represented some sort of event that had something to do with ending of WW2: like, for example, maybe the Germans marched prisoners for miles, trail of tears style, and the one who outlasted them all was the Major, so he decided he'd want to pass this rite of passage so to speak to the next generation. It's interesting to speculate about the world in which this takes place.
@kayligo
4 жыл бұрын
It was about Vietnam
Well, my daughter and I discussed the book, and based on the time it was written and the fact SK was in highschool at that time, we came to the conclusion that this is a story about the pointless Vietnam war. It all fits.
Re-read this recently and really enjoyed it again and wanted to hear more on others thoughts about the book. Great job, appreciate your insights.
One of my favorite Bachmann books, great overview
Great review. Thanks!
Glad this is getting a movie. Battle Royale reminds me of this.
You should do a review for The Shining
@bishiwishii
6 жыл бұрын
Yes, I'd love to see a review of The Shining too
Brillant review 👍 please make more stephen king review
I did find my copy of the running man at a used book store, and it's in very good condition.
Please do Rage next It was the first book I read voluntarily (out of school)
A Vietnamese war tale from USA side ,Shown on tv, ever lasting death and feck up s on show on Tv ,young men volunteers,nothing gained but blood pain pressure and death.Clever review matey.
Great review frosty, can you comment on the 4mph speed for the walk and what your thoughts are on king choosing that speed?
So I'm at minute 13, and still not getting the sense that this book is being understood as the basic allegory for "the road of life " and christianity that it is.... and its pretty simply put- Garrety and the rest can't explain why they're there- except for stebbins. Because stebbins' father is the boss so he's willing to sacrifice himself to see if daddy loves him. Jesus- god thing. Everyone else does in pursuit of happiness and the prize (heaven) Even though no winner lives. Voluntarily/ annually= we live year after year. Welcome to life. You eat, shit, walk, work, die. There's your high school book report. Oh, and it was the figure of death/reaper he saw at the end that was walking ahead of him after he won, so he could win "... if he could only catch up to him..."
I have copy with 433 pages to long walk
One my favorite books .thank you for your review
I have the same exact copy of the bachman books the black and gold. Thabk God for used book stores. I try to buy all of my books used if I can.
@Ang417
6 жыл бұрын
CatrinaDollsAndSugarSkulls yep I found a used copy as well 😊
@turtleanton6539
5 жыл бұрын
I hope I can find it
Great review, this would make a great movie, a damn great movie. Just need to answer the why of the walk at the end and boom, box office glory :)
Frank Darabont has the rights - I wish he would hurry up and adapt this to a film already! Hes the right director; come on man!
@John_Longbow
5 жыл бұрын
André Øverdal has got the go ahead to direct a movie based on this book.
@cyberpimp29
5 жыл бұрын
@@John_Longbow yes sir, I read that also. As to why Darabont dragged his feet on this, I have no idea. Im thrilled this will be made into a film; I wish it was Darabont...
I would greatly enjoy if you reviewed Christine. The film that accompanies it isn't bad either.
I felt liked getting through the book was a slog, which is appropriate given the subject matter. Since the book was written in the ‘70’s, the walkers’ dialog is dated - and I doubt that many kids and teens would have been quoting passages of poetry or pulling authors’ names out of their heads in any era. While a few hints about the walkers’ universe were dropped here and there, I would have loved for more to have been revealed; top it off with an abrupt and inconclusive ending, and I was left regretting the time I invested in this book.
Oh! And do the joe hill books oneday brother!
Great video man, gonna find myself a copy.
This book was about a 6/10 for me. It was not bad. My biggest gripe is that due the story simply being about a long walk, the story is told almost entirely through dialogue and it becomes a little difficult to figure out who’s talking sometimes. We hear lines from like 80% of the boys who walked, it gets confusing and a little boring when the dialogue isn’t broken up by some other event. The events that break up the dialogue typically are one of the boys getting their ticket and dying. I guess simply put, the book is a bit slow for me.
@ambehak4758
4 жыл бұрын
Agreed. I kept thinking who is talking right now and i kept trying to remember which name belonged to which number. There are parts in the middle of this story where it just feels like Stephen King is waffling on for no reason and it kind of makes you lose interest.
@AmyBlackRoseCena
8 ай бұрын
I suggest looking into the audiobook cuz that's how I've been " reading it " and I've already listened to it three times because I in a weird sense identify with it right now because my legs and lower back are practical useless so I feel for these boys when their bodies start to go out on them. Even when you listen to the book yes it is hard to keep track of who's talking sometimes, but I believe it would be easier as opposed to reading the book in print because each person has their own distinct voice
Im looking forward to seeing the movie:)
@cyberpimp29
5 жыл бұрын
Someday...I hope....
I think Ray bought the ticket a few miles back. Notice how many warnings he got away with
I have that book but I didn't read it yet I am still reading Doctor Sleep by Stephen King.
Thank you so much I think that the long walk is About how most of us will die in war
I was taught Stephen King when I was first in and Junior high by a friend of mine of their name Edward Easton they used to read to me because I had hard time interpreting some of the English words from there I became a tremendous fan of the books and of the writings from what I noticed about the writing with Stephen King he puts in metaphors in that has to do with the story, but in a alternate universe I "ll give you an idea of what I mean when you talk about the road ,maximum overdrive immediately came to my mind ( not to mention chirstine also)then I think about what you said with the tower if we go back and we look at the The dark Tower there's a lot of statements that mcconnelly(!in the film the dark Tower) makes that he says oh there's different universes and different chapters of how things are working we also hear about this when he speaks about it and it and it he knows how to get into your deepest fears and and knows how to get to you the reason I say it is also because we hear about it also and graveyard shift where they speak in the book it's a bat but in the movie it's a rat .but I believe a lot of these side stories that like you said the world war II and things like that they're the alternate universe of what would be good if the tower didn't exist and my opinion maybe it's true maybe it's not if we go back and look also at the mist when they explain it like the soldiers explained in the film the mist that they were working on some time portal dimension to open and get through different dimension s also to go back to maximum overdrive the reason the machines had taken over was due to the fact that Russian satellite was hit by alien asteroid or meteor now we go back and we look at creepshow the farmer is hit by the asteroid also and he didn't listen which stars Stephen King( can i get a ride lady 🤣😭🥴) and if we look at cat's eye when the guy try to stop smoking nobody knew how that one company or corporation got all that information to kind of figure out how this guy was smoking still and how to get to his wife and everything so, in my opinion I believe the dark Tower serves as the center of evil and that the leader of the dark Tower sends out people from different I would say chapters to go through different dimensions to cause different mayhem in different dimensions and different places and my opinion this might be way off but this is the only way I can understand or I think why Stephen King puts these weird stories that are from the stories a story within the stories you like to say. Never know .
will be made into a movie coming out soonish
I want to search for this collection!
@kayjay1196
5 жыл бұрын
They have it at a library at my college. A little chilling since Rage is in it. Lol.
Survivor type up there!, Strawberry Spring.,Old is good!
u mean listening to this is like taking a non stop long walk to boston?
i didnt get the ending , where protagonist(cant remember the kids name) wins race and just keeps walking and walking , maybe im dense but i didnt get waht happened. so it marred the experience but i really dug Roadwork. Such a sad story and i love sad stories
@tkurz3071
5 жыл бұрын
That is why I personally love the Bachman Books...None of "Bachman's" stories have happy endings.
@SoftwareAgentsTV
5 жыл бұрын
I think the point is that winning the race doesn't matter because Garrity went nuts from the stress of the Walk.
@kayligo
4 жыл бұрын
Because by then all he knew was that he better walk or he’ll die so he just keeps going
@bruhmoment552
3 жыл бұрын
He was too far gone to stop walking. All he knew by the end of the walk was "You walk or you die" so Ray walked until he couldn't anymore. I think partly thay Ray was too far gone such as hank to where he could only walk and nothing else but maybe also partly that he thought that even if he was the last man walking, that he would be shot dead.
Love it. I always thought it was about Vietnam (or war in general) or you could say it's about capitalism- survival of the fittest at any cost for the ultimate prize
@AmyBlackRoseCena
8 ай бұрын
Survival of the fittest definitely sounds accurate, but then again a 5-day long walk through multiple weather conditions and just the exertion on your body can turn the fittest person into a shell of himself in almost no time as we see.
@BLINDTUBEMARES
8 ай бұрын
That's it. A simple idea for a horrific story@@AmyBlackRoseCena
@AmyBlackRoseCena
8 ай бұрын
@@BLINDTUBEMARES Especially what it does to your mind as we see with Barkavoch (sorry about the spelling, I only have the audiobook version)
@BLINDTUBEMARES
8 ай бұрын
I'm inspired! I'm going to give it listen. Last time I read this was about thirty years ago!@@AmyBlackRoseCena
no spoiler alert at 14:12
I think it’s sad that Stephen King says he believes in God , but refuses to practice the Faith. Yet he puts a lot of spiritual topics in his books...
Everything comes from and goes to the tower :)
God if this is only your second favorite Bachman book then I definitely have to read Rage
@AmyBlackRoseCena
8 ай бұрын
Good luck finding it. Like he said, after the Sandy Hook shooting King took it out of print and I can't even find it on audible which I find really insane
Please tell me garrity lives
The average walking speed is 3.1 mph so that sucks
Thanks!
Bachman s are classics
Please do Regulators!!!!!! Frosty!
And the Stand!!!!!!!
@quincydewhart9361
3 жыл бұрын
I think you do that one! The stand
Thinner is the best of the lot. Easily
Finale talk of a movie 👍👍👍👍👍👍😀
AWESOME!!!😛
And blaze
Good book 👌🏾
The Long Walk literally sent me into massive depression lol
@turtleanton6539
5 жыл бұрын
Hahahahahahahha I can see that
thanks for spoiling the ending.
U do know who richard backman is right??
They chose to do the walk cause they were ready to die and they had non purpose left in life so they chose to do the long walk. Stebbins tells garrity in the book. Now garrity you have to look deeper and I think it's because his father gets squated.
@kayligo
4 жыл бұрын
I think that’s why Garraty wins, he has something to live for.
a gutwrenching book
I didnt think that was very clear
....dude either you’re having the worst case of indigestion ever or it’s time for you to quit smoking my friend, you sound like Vader after he killed the Emperor and saved his son Luke. PS I’ve been listening to the STAND on audio this month and though I feel perhaps that it is Stephen King’s most ambitious and intricate of novels I love IT 10 times more....But what is sticking with me is the biblical implications, what is sticking with me is mother Abigail’s speech on how pride is the mother of all sins and theft is the father. Even though King was never a conventionally biblical chap he really tapped into some Old Testament veins with that one didn’t he? You ever read Pillars of The Earth? It was written by an atheist who simply loved cathedral architecture and yet he had written one of the greatest and most spiritually fulfilling novels I have ever read. I hope you’re not a correction officer working midnights that would suck....but when the cons sleep it sure gives you some good reading time.
I really should pick up the Tower series, I suppose...
It's a shame that King had seemingly lost his edge after the Bachman books and never regained it. He even coped out on Rage, never republishing it ever again, because it "may inspire school shootings".
Just like needful things it gets very repetitive after a time. Just my opinion
Stephen King's The Hunger Games, basically 😂😂
@patcoston
5 жыл бұрын
You can also compare it to Battle Royale, but King was thinking of the story in high-school, then wrote it as a freshman in college from 1966 to 1967, so long before those stories. Those may have been inspired by The Long Walk.
@katkal3
5 жыл бұрын
maybe Running man is more like hunger games
It fucking sucked. Was good for the first 50 pages and then any suspension of disbelief goes out the window.