Daniel Keast finished reading The Long Walk by Stephen King
The Long Walk is a dystopian horror novel by American writer Stephen King, published in …
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A dystopia where 100 boys are in a competition to walk as far as possible. If you drop below 4mph for 30 seconds you get a warning, after three warnings you get shot.
Not a huge amount happens, you never really learn what's going on or why. The entire book is from the perspective of one of the kids, and the walk is the entire book. Right at the end, after he won he carries on walking and sees someone in black which I took to be the grim reaper.
It feels a bit of a slog, like it was a short story that got stretched out maybe.