![]() You do not get a fourth warning instead, you get shot to death. If you interfere with another Walker’s progress, you are warned. Each Walker is afforded three Warnings if you fall below four miles an hour, you are warned. In between the start of the Long Walk and the Prize: death, and lots of it. I say “seems to be,” because the characters themselves seem less than clear on the subject this vagueness only adds to the novel’s growing sense of futility. ![]() The Prize seems to be anything the winner wants for the rest of his life. The premise is unsettling: one hundred boys, of their own volition, walking a marathon for the ultimate Prize. ![]() That a college student wrote such a book is startling that it can stand with King’s later novels is astounding. Published in 1979, after far more complex novels like The Shining and The Stand, The Long Walk was actually written when King was a teenager, shortly after finishing Rage. ![]() The Long Walk, Stephen King’s second novel published under the Richard Bachman name, represents a quantum leap forward in King’s writing. ![]()
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