Me encantó, tiene una premisa que te atrapa desde el comienzo.
La larga marcha es un espectáculo televisado mundialmente donde 100 concursante deben caminar, sin parar, hasta que solo quede 1 vivo. Los otros 99 morirán en el camino.

Es sobre la supervivencia, la amistad, las ganas de vivir un kilometro más, pero también sobre el morbo del espectáculo, el deshumanismo, lo que estaríamos dispuestos a sacrificar por diversión ¿no era eso lo que hacían los romanos en el coliseo? ¿Entreternse mientras una persona pelea por sobrevivir?

Es un libro doloroso, que te hace sentir todo un dolor psicológico y mental. Los personajes son realmente admirables y diferenciables, lo cual es difícil de conseguir porque solo los vemos en la larga marcha no en otros momentos de su vida.

4.5 porque el final me pareció un poco apresurado pero también me encantó

Full video review here: https://youtu.be/c6KBLzrHric

Words cannot express just how much this book hit me emotionally. When you consider that King began writing this story as a teenager it's not a shock he has been such a constant in the game for 50 years. A book where your group of characters are simply walking 4 mph yet he makes you give a damn about each of them is nothing short or wizardry. Without a doubt my favorite Bachman and easily in my Top 10 King books.

¡Qué lectura tan angustiante! La verdad es que no sé que haría en esa situación, supongo que sería de las primeras en "obtener el pasaporte"

Брутална антиутопия, повечето книги в жанра са като детски залъгалки в сравнение с нея!

Шапки долу пред Краля!

One of the first adult books I read in my life. I call it adult, because it was full of sex and violence. I borrowed it from Eloor Lending Library in Kochi around 1995-96. This book was fascinating for me as a teenager. There was so much to savor in it. The Long Walk is a work of art that had as much impact on me as Catcher in the Rye when I was a teenager.

That scene where the kids/contestants and their parents arrive early in the morning for the violent contest, full of nervous tension, watching each other. Stephen King knew how to press the right buttons. That scene reminded me of my early days as a kid in school, waking up early in the morning and getting driven to a place I hated where there were equally nervous kids and their parents. So much of this book has stuck with me. Garraty's girl running out to hug him. How erotic and memorable was that! Mcvries relationship with Priscilla not working because of the smell of milk and cow dung.

I really do not think King has ever reached the level of the Bachman books ever again. There is something special about the four novellas he wrote as Richard Bachman. Every teenager across the world is entitled to a dose of American darkness and pessimism. No wait! You cannot escape it. You are bound to discover Stephen King if you are in one of the former colonies and received an English language primary education. There are some artists whom you WILL discover if you are a reader and your parents did not intervene to introduce you to books in your mother tongue. If King was some kind of chosen one, all I can say is that he is not a bad choice. I mean, he is better than Christopher Nolan and Marvel movies and all that shit we get today! This man knew how to fucking entertain us even if he is like an over the top actor.

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There’s only two things you need to worry about when taking The Long Walk: picking them up and laying them down.

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Outwalk the other 99 contestants in this most twisted of games and you’ll win the grand prize – whatever your heart desires for the rest of your life.

Why the hell did I not know about this book for the past billion years I’ve been alive? I’ve been a King fangirl since the discovery of fire and can’t see how this one slipped past my radar. (Sidenote to all the über booknerds who might be reading this and are thinking about ways to rebel: Keep going to school and making the honor roll – just add a little Stephen King to your life and watch your mother freak out that you are really “acting out” all of a sudden. It makes for some fun times and you’ll discover an author that will entertain you for the next 20+ years.) However I managed to miss it, it happened and I now owe a huge THANK YOU to all of my Goodreads buddies for reading this en masse, making it pop on my feed and impossible for me to ignore.

This is the King I love the best. I’m not such a superfan when I look back on a lot of his late 70s/early 80s stuff – it seems a little campy, a little too heavy on the horror and a little too light on the storyline. But this????? This is what was lurking inside –a foreshadowing of what was to come with character driven stories where gore takes a backburner to psychological terror.

You might be asking why you should read this book? Hasn’t the whole battle to the death thing been done a time or twelve before?

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Hasn’t it even been taken to not-so-PG13 levels a few times?

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Hasn’t Stephen King even done this already????

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The answer is yes, but King does it so well and on such a different level in The Long Walk than any of the others that it simply should not be passed by. Stephen King might be the only author who can write a nearly 400 page story with no reference to what year it takes place and absolutely zero “world building”. All he had to build was a road and send 100 kids out walking on it in order to create a book that I could not put down until the last page was turned.

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ENGLISH (The Long Walk) / ITALIANO

"An old blue Ford pulled into the guarded parking lot that morning, looking like a small, tired dog after a hard run."

The blue Ford of the opening words carries Garraty, the sixteen years old protagonist of this novel, to the starting place of the Walk, a resistance test organized by the Major, obscure architect of this annual event. One hundred competitors will have to march never slowing down, to avoid the so feared Warnings. If they will accumulate too many warnings, they will be discharged from the Walk, until a lone victor will remain.

Progenitor of The Hunger Games and Squid Game, like any self-respecting dystopic, this novel is about a sick society, described through the jubilant and exalted people attending the competition. And human nature that comes out of the behavior of the competitors exhausted by miles driven is sick, too. Competitors who are slowly but surely moving toward a dark abyss.

An abyss of madness.

Vote: 8

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"Una vecchia Ford azzurra entrò quella mattina nel parcheggio sorvegliato: pareva un cagnetto stanco dopo una lunga corsa."

La ford azzurra dell'incipit porta Garraty, il sedicenne protagonista di questo romanzo, verso il luogo di inizio della Marcia, una prova di resistenza organizzata dal Maggiore, oscuro artefice di questa manifestazione annuale. Cento concorrenti dovranno marciare senza mai rallentare, per non incorrere nelle tanto temute ammonizioni. Se si accumuleranno troppe ammonizioni, si verrà congedati dalla marcia, fino a quando non resterà un vincitore.

Progenitore degli Hunger Games e di Squid game, come ogni distopico che si rispetti questo romanzo parla di una società malata, descritta attraverso le persone giubilanti ed esaltate che assistono alla gara. Come malata è la natura umana che viene fuori dai comportamenti dei concorrenti stremati dai chilometri percorsi. Concorrenti che finiscono lentamente ma inesorabilmente, passo dopo passo, in un nero abisso.

Un abisso di follia.

Voto: 8

6 April 2019

After reading this for the second time my mind has completely changed about it.

When I last read it I did not like it, I had many problems with it (you can read this below). Now, I completely disagree with everything I have said. Something made me change my mind about it but I can't pinpoint what that is.

It is now one of my favourite books.

30 March 2018

2.5 stars

For most of the time I was reading this novel I felt like nothing important happened. For almost the entire novel the same thing was occurring.

I also found it to be predictable. I knew what was going to happen the more I got into the story.

I did have to force myself, at certain times, to continue reading this. The chapters were extremely long, and would have like the chapters to be split up and make shorter.

For the most part, the ending was enjoyable, even if I knew what was going to happen.

Arabic & English Review:

I am Exhuasted , 5 days of walking

i had to walk in my room and feel my toes every awhile to make sure i am not in The Long DEATH Walking

My first reading to Stephan King "Richard Bachman"
i had to start with this one coz it's his first novel he wrote ever but it puplished later in 1979

it's set in dark dystopian world which Nazies won the WWII

The Long walk , its annual walking contest in 1th of may every year with 100 teenage boys .
the winner gets the PRIZE which is ANYTHING HE WANTS as they refer to it .

Rules are easy :
1- you must walk at least four miles per hour
2- you have 3 warnings , u get one if
a- you slow your speed by 4 miles per hour by 30 seconds
b- if u interfered with one of the walkers
3- if u slows down after taking 3 warnings u get Ticketed !!!! which is shot in the head " no spoiler here coz it happened in the first pages "
4- Walkers Get Shout immediately if
a - walkout of the road or tries to escape
b- attack the halftruck

But ; there is silver linings here if a walker stayed above the speed for one hour he clears one of his warnings .

i can't talk about the language or the thriller that makes u wanna go page by page to know what happened coz we talking about stephan king here xD

"""" 100 hopful teenage WALKING """""

it starts with Ray Garraty arrives to join the long walk who didnt say the reason of joining in and get to know McVries , parker , Abraham who named their group the musketeers also Scramm , Barkovitch and the silent most mysterious one Stebbins .

"""" 75 tired teenage WALKING """""

your Enemy in the long walk not just the soldiers also sunstroke , cramps , convulsion and fever .
it could strike u in one min and make u lose your life .

"""" 50 Dead Teenage WALKING """"

the crowds who makes u go crazy , who bets on your life !!

""" 25 still WALKING and they fall like Flies """

“Why don’t you help me decide?” McVries said.
“Sure. What’s the topic for decision?”
“Who’s in the cage. Us or them.”


"""" 3 Walkers Left """""

Conclusions everything

“All we are is mice in a trap.”

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" At the end No One Win but The major " olson said

its a story about surviving , the last man standing .

The ending is confusing
i was about to give it 3 stars coz i was hoping to surprise me in the end but it did
actually in another way .
in my point of view Ray saw the angel of death and he died too :(

the Major won i guess :(

Now , if i have the chance to cast well xD :

Arabic Review :

الرواية متعبة جدا
ستيفن كينج خلق عالم اسود كئيب

اول قراءة ل ستيفن كينج ملك الرعب و الاثارة
اول رواية كتبها كينج على الرغم من انها صدرت ف 1979
الرواية تم ترجمتها فى معرض الكتاب 2018 عن طريق الدار العربية للعلوم ناشرون

فى عالم كئيب يظهر ب ان الالمان كسبوا الحرب العالمية الثانية
يتم اقامة مهرجان سنوى يسمى the Long Walk
يشارك فيه 100 شاب | فائز واحد فقط و الجائزة اى شى يريده

القواعد سهلة و واضحة :
1- عليك المشى بمعدل لا يقل عن 4 ميل فى الساعة
2- لك 3 تحذيرات فقط تحصل علي تحذير اذا ابطات عن المعدل المسموح  اذا تعمدت التدخل او تعطيل متسابق اخر
3- اذا استخدمت ال 3 تحذيرات المسموحين لك و ابطات بعد ذلك يطلق عليك النار
4- يطلق عليك النار فورا اذا حاولت ان تهرب او تخرج عن الطريق المسموح  اذا هجمت على عربية الجيش

* اذا استمريت بالمشى لمدة ساعة اسرع من المعدل يتم الغاء واحدة من التحذيرات التى عليك

قمة فى الاثارة و الاحداث تجعلك لا تستطيع ترك الكتاب و تعيش مع الشخصيات المفضلة اليك
عن الطريق الشخصية الرئيسية " راي جارتى " يتم التعرف علية و على حياته و على الاصدقاء الذى يتعرف عليهم فى الطريق
بعض الشخصيات تتعاطف معهم و تشجعهم على المواصلة و المشى  البعض الاخر تتمنى ان يتوقفوا عن المشى
هذا ما يميز الكتاب بغض النطر عن التشويق , الكناب ايضا به لمحات عن كل شخص و حياته الاجتماعية

اكبر مخاوفك ليس التعب فقط و لكن مع جو متقلب من الاممطار و الشمس الحارقة ف انت عرضة للحمى , ضربة شمس , شد عضلى و التشنجات بسببهم قد تخسر حياتك
و ايضا بعض من الجماهير الذى يدفعوك الى الجنون احيانا
يتراهنون على الفائز و لا تدفعهم شفقة على الارواح المهدرة

“They're animals, all right. But why are you so sure that makes us human beings?”

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النهاية كانت سهلة التوقع و لكن بما اننا فى حضرة كينج ف النهاية كانت مربكة جدا و بلا نهاية
لقد جعل القراءة يفسرون الرواية على حسب اعتقادهم
فى رايي ان راى رأى ملاك الموت و مات فى النهاية كنهاية كئيبة فى عالم كئيب

رواية عن البقاء و التحدى

3.75/5

Ta książka naprawdę do mnie przemówiła — miała kilka momentów cringowego, mizoginistycznego pitolenia, ale to King. Jego oceniam w innej skali XD

Rereading many years later this is still a 5 star read for me.

I love the way this book captures the emotions of love, hate, fear, indifference, longing, and loneliness. It’s interspersed with observations of the mundane and the horrific, demonstrating the incredible scope of the mind’s ability to perceive and process the smallest joy and the greatest violence almost simultaneously.

The descent into madness experienced by the participants is both expected and shocking. It’s a story that makes the reader wish for a different outcome almost as fervently and as pointlessly as the participants of the Long Walk themselves.

Fittingly, this book goes nonstop from beginning to end! I really enjoyed reading this. It's definitely more of a character driven story. It's also a very emotional story in my opinion. King does a great job of putting us right there amongst all the other walkers. This book is unputdownable because you just have to keep reading to find out what happens. There are some really intense, suspenseful, and thrilling parts in this book. I was definitely rooting for Garraty the whole time! I'm glad I read this one and I got to check another King book that I hadn't read off the list!