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    The Long Walk
    The Long Walk
    The Long Walk
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    The Long Walk

    Written by Stephen King

    Narrated by Kirby Heyborne

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    In this #1 national bestseller, master storyteller Stephen King, writing as Richard Bachman, tells the tale of the contestants of a grueling walking competition where there can only be one winner—the one that survives.

    Against the wishes of his mother, sixteen-year-old Ray Garraty is about to compete in the annual grueling match of stamina and wits known as the Long Walk. One hundred boys must keep a steady pace of four miles per hour without ever stopping...with the winner being awarded “The Prize”—anything he wants for the rest of his life. But, as part of this national tournament that sweeps through a dystopian America year after year, there are some harsh rules that Garraty and ninety-nine others must adhere to in order to beat out the rest. There is no finish line—the winner is the last man standing. Contestants cannot receive any outside aid whatsoever. Slow down under the speed limit and you’re given a warning. Three warnings and you’re out of the game—permanently...
    LanguageEnglish
    PublisherSimon & Schuster Audio
    Release dateJan 1, 2016
    ISBN9781508217299
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    Stephen King

    Stephen King is the author of more than sixty books, all of them worldwide bestsellers. His recent work includes the short story collection You Like It Darker, Holly, Fairy Tale, Billy Summers, If It Bleeds, The Institute, Elevation, The Outsider, Sleeping Beauties (cowritten with his son Owen King), and the Bill Hodges trilogy: End of Watch, Finders Keepers, and Mr. Mercedes (an Edgar Award winner for Best Novel and a television series streaming on Peacock). His novel 11/22/63 was named a top ten book of 2011 by The New York Times Book Review and won the Los Angeles Times Book Prize for Mystery/Thriller. His epic works The Dark Tower, It, Pet Sematary, Doctor Sleep, and Firestarter are the basis for major motion pictures, with It now the highest-grossing horror film of all time. He is the recipient of the 2020 Audio Publishers Association Lifetime Achievement Award, the 2018 PEN America Literary Service Award, the 2014 National Medal of Arts, and the 2003 National Book Foundation Medal for Distinguished Contribution to American Letters. He lives in Bangor, Maine, with his wife, novelist Tabitha King. 

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    • 5/5
      The second time i heard it , i love it

      1 person found this helpful

    • 2/5
      No crescendo….perhaps I just unfairly wanted a Hunger games twist…

      1 person found this helpful

    • 4/5
      This was an interesting novel. I enjoyed it enough to listen to it in one day, but I do wish there was more background information and world building. The audio quality was really good and the narrator enjoyable.

      1 person found this helpful

    • 5/5
      Amazing narration and I enjoyed the thrill and story. His reading from king’s coming out as bachman is amazing,

      1 person found this helpful

    • 5/5
      Love love this book, this is my second time reading it and enjoyed as much the first time.

      1 person found this helpful

    • 2/5
      Long winded and boring. Definitely not my favorite from King.

      1 person found this helpful

    • 4/5
      Pretty good but not the best King I've ever read. Narration was probably a bit lackluster.

      1 person found this helpful

    • 5/5
      I think this book could only have been written during Vietnam by someone who, like Steven King, was of an age to be drafted. Confused young men act out a ritual of slow death, covered with glory by screaming crowds whose cheers amount to, "You're my hero! All I have to do is cheer, and you're a hero because your death lets me get off easy!"

      1 person found this helpful

    • 4/5
      Great book, but there’s something wrong with the audio. It often skips and cuts out, words are clearly missing. It ruins the continuity, especially for it being such a short book.

      1 person found this helpful

    • 4/5
      Good story but a few brief skips in audio. They were only a second or so each but made the flow weird.

      1 person found this helpful

    • 3/5
      Not what I expected, at all. I absolutely hated the ending & instantly regretted even choosing it. It’s literally “the long walk”...& nothing else.
      It could’ve been so much better.
      I might feel differently if I’d have read this before The Hunger Games, (pretty sure the idea for that series came from this book)...but because I didn’t, this book actually feels incomplete to me.

      1 person found this helpful

    • 5/5
      One of Kings best stories. Works well as audio-book

      1 person found this helpful

    • 5/5
      Really great. Nothing over the top, just a simple compelling story.

      1 person found this helpful

    • 5/5
      Better than The Hunger Game. Yeah. I said it.

      1 person found this helpful

    • 5/5
      This book is great!! The ending was surprising, but appropriate.

      1 person found this helpful

    • 5/5
      I read this every year and plot how far along I am in my long walk. This is one of the best books ever written.
    • 5/5
      Another great story told by the King. I didn’t expect to shed any tears but here we are. I love how attached to his characters you can get. Awesome listen!
    • 5/5
      Good book, pretty interesting. I would recommend it. Good book
    • 3/5
      Poor audio quality. Sounded like every 3rd line was cut off at the end by the editor. Great book though.
    • 5/5
      This book is a little hard to get into at first, but after the first few chapters the characters just suck you in. It is intense and compelling in a way you would not expect. The emotion delivered through this book is genuine and raw. Do be warned it is very likely to have a strong emotional impact on the reader. Some of the dialogue was cheesy and overly vulgar, and the premise a little far fetched,but this is a great read with a wide variety of characters, simply loved it.
    • 5/5
      I read the book as a young teenager and now in my early 40s I loved it as much and it was well narrated and I adored it as much as I did as a teen and for someone who has trouble reading for medical reasons, this app is the best for books and everything. I adored the story, I love Richard Bachman’s stories as they’re totally different than Stephen king’s ones..l ❤️
    • 2/5
      Just about anything. Disappointed in the ending. And parts of it just dragged on and on. Kept waiting for the point to the story.
    • 5/5
      This was an absolutely incredible and powerful book about the workings of the mind, and of sanity. The audiobook reader did a good job, there was never any issue with the audio quality, nor was there any background noise.

      I highly recommend The Long Walk, but know that it is a painful, arduous experience.
    • 5/5
      This was before the Hunger games and Scorpion Trials. I’ve been reading this book over and over for years now. It is still Classic . A Masterpiece. It never gets old. Even better to Listen to it this time around. The Characters come to life .
    • 1/5
      The recording on this, or maybe the file, is somewhat corrupted. There are frequent drops where the recording skips ahead a little and you can tell words are missing. Very annoying.

      The book is fine, though.

      2 people found this helpful