Audience: Adult Format: Audiobook/Owned She was squinting at the thermometer in the white light coming through the window. - first sentence I am a huge Stephen King fan since I was a teenager but it has been a while since I read some of his books. Lately, I started listening to the audio ver...
I never would have thought that a book with this premise would be so bad. I know that Stephen King is a hit or miss author for me, but this has to be the book written by him I actually dislike the most. The main problem for me was the fact that I couldn´t root for the main character, Ben Richards....
Synopsis: Ben Richards is out of work and out of luck. His eighteen-month-old daughter is sick, and neither Ben nor his wife can afford to take her to a doctor. For a man with no cash and no hope from the poor side of town, there’s only one thing to do: become a contestant on one of the Network’s Ga...
Halt! If you have yet to read this Stephen King as Richard Bachman book, let it be known that the introduction should be cordoned off with ‘spoiler warning’ tape…but it's not. I would chalk it up to King's beef with the outing of Bachman (which I totally respect), but the same thing happened to me w...
Stephen King has said that he wrote The Running Man in a week. He didn't mention whether it was during his sleep. I've only read two of his Richard Bachman books (the other was Rage) and neither is good. This one, at least, isn't as offensively bad as his first. It's just silly, pointlessly angry,...
When Ben Richard's daughter gets pneumonia, he turns to the Network for help and becomes a contestant on the deadliest of reality shows, The Running Man. Can Richards run long enough to earn the money for his daughter's medicine? And what will he learn as he runs for his life for the amusement of th...
Although this book picked up about 3/4 of the way through, I started it a month before I finished and read about 6 books in between. That is pretty unusual for me and says something about how much interest the book held for me.
The Running Man is dystopian novel by Richard Bachman (also known as Stephen King). It isn’t a horror novel, it is more of a dystopian, thriller story. Set it 2025, the world is different from how it is today. The society is controlled by a big business that maintains power using disturbing televisi...
Probably would have liked it better if Stephen King hadn't given away the ending on page vii of the introduction, "The Importance of Being Bachman." Why?!? Guess he figured everyone's seen the movie. Nope.
Actually more 3.5very close to 4It was an interesting story, I really liked it.Though I didn't really feel connected to Richards, even when it came to him as a pitiful husband just trying to support his family. I just didn't feel it. I couldn't feel his anger towards the Network as much as I think I...
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