The Running Man--Voting Closed

[Aaron]

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The Running Man
Signet, 1982


Bracket #3

Voting for this Book is Closed

Final Average Score: 3.40625

The Running Man will not advance to Round 2

[The Lady of Shadows]

hated this story the first time i read it. sat down in b&n this year and reread it and couldn't put it down. really, i couldn't put it down. i sat there for two and a half hours completely engrossed and waiting to see what would happen next.

you can tell it's a young concept but it was completely fascinating to me.

[mae]

Two Bachman books in Bracket 3. This has the better chance of moving on, I think.

[Daghain]

I gave it a 2. It was okay, but I wasn't overly impressed with it.

[Sam]

I gave it a 3. Not his best but, one of the better Bachman tales. The Long Walk is still the best one.

[Jean]

only so-so

[ManOfWesternesse]

I gave this 4. Not a bad Book at all. Pity about the movie.

[Darkthoughts]

I gave it a 3. It was ok.

[stone, rose, unfound door]

A good Bachman book with a lot of action, so it gets a 4.

[BROWNINGS CHILDE]

2. LEAST FAVORITE OF THE BACHMAN BOOKS

[Woofer]

Average for me.

[BROWNINGS CHILDE]

WHAT HAPPENED TO ALL THE POLLING THREADS. THEY ARE ALL CLOSED.

[Woofer]

If a poll is closed, the voting period has expired.

[mae]

WHAT HAPPENED TO ALL THE POLLING THREADS. THEY ARE ALL CLOSED.

Not all. Only Bracket 1. It's been up for a week. Bracket 2 will close in two days.

Check the bracket schedule (http://www.thedarktower.org/palaver/showthread.php?t=5783) for more info on how this breaks down.

[Heather19]

After much thought I went with a 3 on this one. It's been years since I've read it, but I remember enjoying it. However there's so many other books that I would rank above this one.

[Matt]

I liked it. I think it could have been an amazing movie if they would have stuck with the original written premise.

[jayson]

I think it could have been an amazing movie if they would have stuck with the original written premise.

I agree. The original story is a lot more compelling than the ridiculous adaptation.

[Heather19]

That had to easily be one of the worst adaptations that I have ever seen. They pretty much threw away the entire story.

[Jean]

I liked it. I think it could have been an amazing movie if they would have stuck with the original written premise.
Absolutely. I didn't think much of it as a novel, but such a movie could have been terrific... which it didn't, because they missed the very point.

[mae]

What's funny is that I watched the movie way before I started reading King, when I was a kid, and being a kid I really liked the movie a lot, of course. I was shocked to find out, years later, that it was "based on" an early King novel. I was then relieved to find out, much like The Lawnmower Man, it had fuck-all to do with the written work.

[jayson]

That's what happens when they take a story with a lot of action in it and try to make it an "action movie". There's a world of difference between an action movie and a movie with a lot of action in it. The Running Man could have been a phenomenal movie. Instead it's another piece of crap action movie.

[Jean]

That's what happens when they take a story with a lot of action in it and try to make it an "action movie".
I wish I had said it myself!!!!!

[jayson]

I knew you were thinking it. :)

[Aaron]

Lemme bump this so that it isn't stuck amongst the closed polls.