5: I loved it
4: It was good
3: Average
2: Only so-so
1: I didn't like it
Never Read
Bracket #2: The Long Walk (1979)
The Long Walk, 1979
Please vote for The Long Walk using the following scale:
5: I loved it
4: It was good
3: Average
2: Only so-so
1: I didn't like it
If you haven't read this book yet, please vote Never Read. Feel free to discuss your votes in this thread.
5 from bears. One of their favorites.
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!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
A definite 5! I wish I could give it more. One of my all-time favorites.
Only the gentle are ever really strong.
One of King's finest works. The best of any of the Bachman tales.
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
absolutely. Bears also love those two nobody loves - Roadwork and Blaze - but The Long Walk is the best anyway.Originally Posted by Sam
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!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
Actually, Roadwork is my favorite of the 4 older Bachman paperback originals. The Long Walk I gave a 4, although it's closer to a 4.5. (My 5-stars are reserved for only a select few).
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!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
Five. I LOVED this story!
"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
God, i love this book.
Big town's got its losers, small town's got its vices...
i've never read it
I have many leather bound books.
I'm kind of a big deal.
Changing the plans that I’ve been setting on, I’m scared by the way that my life is getting gone
i've never read it
SentWest, I am sure you're gonna love it!
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!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
i will go to my grandma's tomorrow and get it. she has every king/bachman book
I have many leather bound books.
I'm kind of a big deal.
Changing the plans that I’ve been setting on, I’m scared by the way that my life is getting gone
I really liked Roadwork, probably because it had this crazy, political subtext that wasn't colored by doctrinaire leftism. It has a very free Bachmanesque quality that you don't see in a lot of his later works.
5. Best of the Bachmans for sure.
Sloth Love Chunk
Hm. Yeah, I suppose I'll agree. :nod: Not counting Thinner.
I loved it.
It pains me to see that someone gave this a 1
I'm curious what you didn't like about it.
Only the gentle are ever really strong.
bears would like to know, too
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!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
I love your Grandma...
I read this in the 8th grade circa 1987. The Bachman Books and The Gunslinger were both in our school library. Those were my first King reads and i've never looked back...except to reread.
This is the one I keep returning to.
I listen to it at least once a quarter - never tire of it.
5/5
Calla Wolf
Never Heard the audio, who reads it?
I wonder who gave that lone 1?
The poll has closed. The Long Walk has earned a FAS (final average score) of 4.493506494 or 89.87%, placing 2nd (runner-up) in this bracket. It will be moving on to Round 2. In 2009, The Long Walk also placed 2nd with a FAS of 4.487804878, so it gained 0.005701616 (+0.13%) this time.
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