A man is given a several hour head start and needs to stay alive for 30 days. In the original King work, the concept was very different. Gone are the gladiator figures with high tech weapons and costumes, gone is the superhero physique of Arnold, gone even is the arena that the game takes place in. I found that to be a plus as the story was very unpredictable and I was always guessing about how the book would progress. The Running Man was certainly closer in quality to The Long Walk but reading it second I couldn’t help but feel that the whole book had a very familiar quality to it.įor fans of the Arnold Schwarzenegger movie (1987), reading the book version is an entirely different story with very few similarities. I hated the two books about men snapping and really enjoyed The Long Walk. Through those four books, King published two books about men snapping and doing violent things ( Rage and Roadwork) and two dystopian future books that revolve around contests where the losers are killed if they stop moving ( The Long Walk and The Running Man).
I read this book as part of a larger book collecting the first four books published with Richard Bachman as the credited author. Author: Stephen King (as Richard Bachman)
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