The Long Walk

**Chelle71** · August 26th, 2009

Hi there,

I am new here and i could not find any discussions about the Novella The Long Walk? It surprises me asI think it is the best work Stephen King has ever written....

**prettiwiccan** · October 26th, 2009

I have to agree with you, I love the long walk. One of many SK stories that really stick with you after you finish reading.

**plgordon** · December 7th, 2009

Hey Chelle, I loved the long walk, I've never thought of raw hamburger the same since I read it. Definately my favorite Bachman Book.

**catnoel** · May 26th, 2010

One of my favorite books. I read it yearly as a reminder to "Keep on Walkin"!!

**GLewman** · June 1st, 2010

Hi Chelle...thankyou for the welcome...The Long Walk was a great story...To this day, whenever I go for a walk, I always think what it would be like to have to walk several hundred miles at 4 mph...haha...you'll have to do the metric conversion to figure out your distance and speed

**GNTLGNT** · June 3rd, 2010

Great grim story...when I was a kid, the Long Walk was from the chair to the TV to change the channel...

**Pucker** · June 3rd, 2010

Originally Posted by GNTLGNT

Great grim story...when I was a kid, the Long Walk was from the chair to the TV to change the channel...

Having to actually get up out of your chair to change the station . . .

yeah, those were the good old days, alright.

And the choices were so much simpler then, too.

Whenever I think of The Long Walk I remember climbing Maine's Mt. Katahdin in my teens and twisting my ankle coming down off the summit. I then had to hike down from roughly 4,000 feet, dog tired, with a badly swollen ankle.

Of course, there wasn't anybody threatening to shoot me if I sat down to rest.

Good times.

**Tayyab Saeed** · June 4th, 2010

I love it. It's certainly one of my favorite Stephen King book and my favorite Bachman book. Hope it will be made into a great movie! And there are chances of it being great, too, because Darabont's gonna direct it! Yay!

**Doc Wilson** · June 4th, 2010

Brilliant work, especially given how young he was when he wrote it.

**bobledrew** · June 4th, 2010

Among the best of the early work, I think. Unrelentingly grim. What I've never been able to decide was whether what Stebbins told Garraty in the final chapter was true or not, or whether it was more of his games with the Walkers. The story haunts me. The bravado of the young men, how in some ways it reminds me of Lord of the Flies... The relentlessness.