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mae
03-26-2014, 05:04 AM
The Running Man, 1982
http://www.thedarktower.org/gallery/data/510/medium/The_Running_Man_face.jpg

Please vote for The Running Man (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Running_Man) using the following scale:


5
4.5
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3.5
3
2.5
2
1
0
Never read


If you haven't read this book yet, please vote Never Read. Feel free to discuss your votes in this thread.

Tito_Villa
03-26-2014, 06:32 AM
4.5, great story, love the ending

stroppygoblin
03-26-2014, 08:00 AM
5! Inspired one of the best films ever!

Unfortunately in Keystone Earth they made a really cr@p one with Arnold Schwarzenegger :evil:

Girlystevedave
03-26-2014, 08:41 AM
Never read

divemaster
03-26-2014, 09:31 AM
I like dystopian sci-fi, and add a good character and a rip-bang story and you get 4.5.

Iwritecode
03-26-2014, 10:27 AM
I keep voting and then forgetting to comment. Then when I come back to the thread, I forget what score I gave it. :blush:

Heather19
03-26-2014, 10:43 AM
You're vote should show up in italics.

Gave this one a 3.5. I enjoyed it, but not near the top of my list.

stroppygoblin
03-26-2014, 11:29 AM
I keep voting and then forgetting to comment. Then when I come back to the thread, I forget what score I gave it. :blush:

Click on the vote count on the poll, it shows who voted

Jean
03-27-2014, 12:49 AM
bears won't vote here

with such a lot of great books on my Kindle, I just can't go back to that one and finally read those last ten or fifteen pages. Remember being unimpressed anyway

Jon
03-27-2014, 12:58 AM
Meh...I ...and friends ran farther and for less but we weren't under threat of death and we had good drugs. But we still did it.

stroppygoblin
03-27-2014, 01:38 AM
I think this is a great book (and how can bears not finish a story that has a countdown???? - goblins would go mad!)

The most disturbing element is just how close today's society is getting to some of the games in the book. When SK wrote this, the scariest gameshow was probably 'Jeopardy'. These days, especially in Japan, so many gameshows focus on the suffering and in some cases physical torture of the contestant. Just how far away are we from returning to the days of the Roman Coliseum and the requirement for the loser to be killed for the entertainment of the audience?

Jean
03-27-2014, 03:48 AM
(and how can bears not finish a story that has a countdown???? - goblins would go mad!)
I was reading it on the plane, and it landed 15 or so pages before the end of the book. As I got home, there were a few books lying there which I had started before I went away. Somehow I took one of them first... and just never went back to TRM. It's been at least five years.

I liked the main idea (although Sheckley and God knows how many other writers got it first), but not the execution.

mae
04-02-2014, 05:13 AM
The poll has closed. The Running Man has earned a FAS (final average score) of 3.619047619 or 72.38%. It received a rating of 3.5 with 6 votes.