The Running Man, 1982
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Bracket #3: The Running Man (1982)
The Running Man, 1982
Please vote for The Running Man using the following scale:
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4.5, great story, love the ending
5! Inspired one of the best films ever!
but
"A real limited edition, far from being an expensive autograph stapled to a novel, is a treasure. And like all treasures do, it transforms the responsible owner into a caretaker, and being a caretaker of something as fragile and easily destroyed as ideas and images is not a bad thing but a good one...and so is the re-evaluation of what books are and what they do that necessarily follows." - Stephen King
Never read
I like dystopian sci-fi, and add a good character and a rip-bang story and you get 4.5.
I keep voting and then forgetting to comment. Then when I come back to the thread, I forget what score I gave it.
Hearts are tough, she said, most times hearts don't break, and I'm sure that's right . . . but what about then? What about who we were then? What about hearts in Atlantis?
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Gave this one a 3.5. I enjoyed it, but not near the top of my list.
Only the gentle are ever really strong.
Click on the vote count on the poll, it shows who votedOriginally Posted by Iwritecode
I keep voting and then forgetting to comment. Then when I come back to the thread, I forget what score I gave it.
"A real limited edition, far from being an expensive autograph stapled to a novel, is a treasure. And like all treasures do, it transforms the responsible owner into a caretaker, and being a caretaker of something as fragile and easily destroyed as ideas and images is not a bad thing but a good one...and so is the re-evaluation of what books are and what they do that necessarily follows." - Stephen King
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
Ask not what bears can do for you, but what you can do for bears. (razz)
When one is in agreement with bears one is always correct. (mae)
bears are back!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
Meh...Spoiler:
All that's left of what we were is what we have become.
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?
"A real limited edition, far from being an expensive autograph stapled to a novel, is a treasure. And like all treasures do, it transforms the responsible owner into a caretaker, and being a caretaker of something as fragile and easily destroyed as ideas and images is not a bad thing but a good one...and so is the re-evaluation of what books are and what they do that necessarily follows." - Stephen King
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.
Ask not what bears can do for you, but what you can do for bears. (razz)
When one is in agreement with bears one is always correct. (mae)
bears are back!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
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.
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