The Long Walk
Signet, 1979
Bracket #2
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Final Average Score:
4.487804878
Bracket Runner-Up: Advancing to Round 2
I loved it - 5
It was good - 4
Average - 3
Only so-so - 2
I didnt like it - 1
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The Long Walk--Bracket 2 Runner-Up!
The Long Walk
Signet, 1979
Bracket #2
Voting for this Book is Closed
Final Average Score:
4.487804878
Bracket Runner-Up: Advancing to Round 2
Heng Dai
I was very impressed by this story. There's something quite haunting about it.
Gave it a 4.
Same here.
Ditto. Although I am really looking forward to Frank Darabont's film adaptation. If he ever does it, that is.
I've never read it.
“Twenty years from now you will be more disappointed by the things that you didn't do than by the ones you did do. So throw off the bowlines. Sail away from the safe harbor. Catch the trade winds in your sails. Explore. Dream. Discover.”-Mark Twain
Listen to the mustn'ts, child. Listen to the don'ts. Listen to the shouldn'ts, the impossibles, the won'ts. Listen to the never haves, then listen close to me....Anything can happen, child. Anything can be.
-Shel Silverstein
This is another 5 for me, which makes 2 5's in this section - but I can't help that.
Great, great book this!
I gave this one a 4 also. It was a great read but not his greatest work. I WILL say it is his best Bachman work though. I haven't read Roadwork through yet.
Margaret Emmie Mackey Catoe, you are, have been, and always will be my soulmate, and I love you.
Con todo mi corazon, por todo de mis dias. And I always will, in this life and into the next.
August 2, 1947 - September 24, 2010
I love this story every time I read it. A definite 5 for me.
"People, especially children, aren't measured by their IQ. What's important about them is whether they're good or bad, and these children are bad." ~ Alan Bernard
"You needn't die happy when your day comes, but you must die satisfied, for you have lived your life from beginning to end and ka is always served." ~ Roland Deschain
5
According to me, the Bachman books are the best King has written and this one is my #1 favourite if we exclude the DT series. So definitely a big 5 and this is the winner of this selection for me.
definitely a "5"
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!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
Haunting is a perfect way to describe it.Originally Posted by Darkthoughts
Definitely a 5 for me. Hands down one of Kings best books, and one of my all time favorite stories. There's just so much in there.
Only the gentle are ever really strong.
i dream about this. that's how deeply it lives in me. how's that for scary? a five.
This is the best of Bachman. Hands down.
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Amen, brother!
"People, especially children, aren't measured by their IQ. What's important about them is whether they're good or bad, and these children are bad." ~ Alan Bernard
"You needn't die happy when your day comes, but you must die satisfied, for you have lived your life from beginning to end and ka is always served." ~ Roland Deschain
I would have to wholeheartedly agree...at least early Bachman. I really loved The Regulators.
Absolutely. I can feel every mile of the walk when I read it. Those poor kids.
It'll take a lot more than words and guns,
A whole lot more than riches and muscle.
The hands of the many must join as one.
And together we'll cross the river.
Puscifer, "The Humbling River"
And I don't even like walking up the stairs...for any reason.
Loved it.
"...that Siren which called and sang and promised so much and gave, after all, so little." ~ Ray Bradbury
The first post of this thread has been edited to indicate The Long Walk's Lot's final average score, which is 4.487804878. The Long Walk is the runner-up for Bracket #2, and will be advancing to Round 2 of the competition.
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