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Jun. 19th, 2007 07:05 pmHi kiddos. I'm here today to share with you my favorite book ever. It's called The Long Walk and it's by Stephen King. And thus ends my show and tell. XD
Seriously though, I was reading through this thing again and my god, I had forgotten how amazing it was. Now, I love when King does horror/crazy diseases/killer cars/omg. The Shining, The Stand, Pet Sematary -- but my favorite works of his are the ones where nothing supernatural or out of the ordinary happens and he just sneaks his way into the mind of a human being. The Body (the basis for Stand By Me), Rage and this book, The Long Walk. It's a story about friendship and human endurance -- in a disturbing little setting.
Let me give you a nice happy rundown.
One hundred teenage boys (picked at random from a large pool of applicants) are chosen to participate in an annual walking contest called "The Long Walk". Each walker must maintain a constant speed of no less than four miles an hour, or he receives a warning. Warnings are given for a variety of other offenses, including assaulting another walker or deviating from the walk's set course. Walkers may "lose" warnings by walking for one hour without being warned. If, however, a Walker with three warnings slows down again, or breaks any other rule, he is shot by the soldiers monitoring the event from halftracks.
And how awesome and disturbing is the newest cover?
Anyways, this book has my favorite character ever in it - okay, yeah, second only to Jacen Solo. D: His name is Peter McVries (#61 <3) and he is a brilliantly written piece of work, this one. He is absolutely beautiful and I'll tell you right now -- you can't get attached to anyone in this book because 99 of them are going to die. And I have read this book at least 15 times, and every single fucking time I get to McVries' time to go I bawl my eyes out like a baby. D:
He basically joined the Walk as a means of suicide. And sadly, he's the one the main character, Ray Garraty (#47), gets closest to.
One of the strongest points in this book is the dialogue. It's incredible the exchanges these guys have -- I've never laughed harder.
( These boys make me die a little inside. Also, total language warning on these cuts. XD )
Then you have the opposite of scenes like that...
( ...and you have boys being boys. )
McVries also rambles a lot and gets the coolest quote in the book, when he's creeping out on Garraty.
( I heart. )
I also will never get over the "YOU'RE CHEATING, YOU FUCK." scene. This book, dude. It's not a freakin' literary masterpiece ten-thousand prize winning piece of work, but I think that's why I love it so much. It hits something with me and I find myself wanting to read it over and over again, even if it depresses the everloving crap out of me. D:
Srsly though, if you are ever looking for a book to pass some of your time... thiiiiiiis book. <333 Looooove~ McVriesssssss. <3
Seriously though, I was reading through this thing again and my god, I had forgotten how amazing it was. Now, I love when King does horror/crazy diseases/killer cars/omg. The Shining, The Stand, Pet Sematary -- but my favorite works of his are the ones where nothing supernatural or out of the ordinary happens and he just sneaks his way into the mind of a human being. The Body (the basis for Stand By Me), Rage and this book, The Long Walk. It's a story about friendship and human endurance -- in a disturbing little setting.
Let me give you a nice happy rundown.
One hundred teenage boys (picked at random from a large pool of applicants) are chosen to participate in an annual walking contest called "The Long Walk". Each walker must maintain a constant speed of no less than four miles an hour, or he receives a warning. Warnings are given for a variety of other offenses, including assaulting another walker or deviating from the walk's set course. Walkers may "lose" warnings by walking for one hour without being warned. If, however, a Walker with three warnings slows down again, or breaks any other rule, he is shot by the soldiers monitoring the event from halftracks.
And how awesome and disturbing is the newest cover?
Anyways, this book has my favorite character ever in it - okay, yeah, second only to Jacen Solo. D: His name is Peter McVries (#61 <3) and he is a brilliantly written piece of work, this one. He is absolutely beautiful and I'll tell you right now -- you can't get attached to anyone in this book because 99 of them are going to die. And I have read this book at least 15 times, and every single fucking time I get to McVries' time to go I bawl my eyes out like a baby. D:
He basically joined the Walk as a means of suicide. And sadly, he's the one the main character, Ray Garraty (#47), gets closest to.
One of the strongest points in this book is the dialogue. It's incredible the exchanges these guys have -- I've never laughed harder.
( These boys make me die a little inside. Also, total language warning on these cuts. XD )
Then you have the opposite of scenes like that...
( ...and you have boys being boys. )
McVries also rambles a lot and gets the coolest quote in the book, when he's creeping out on Garraty.
( I heart. )
I also will never get over the "YOU'RE CHEATING, YOU FUCK." scene. This book, dude. It's not a freakin' literary masterpiece ten-thousand prize winning piece of work, but I think that's why I love it so much. It hits something with me and I find myself wanting to read it over and over again, even if it depresses the everloving crap out of me. D:
Srsly though, if you are ever looking for a book to pass some of your time... thiiiiiiis book. <333 Looooove~ McVriesssssss. <3
