The Bachman Books
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Richard Bachman
Stephen King
Includes the story THE LONG WALK. Soon to be a major film from The Hunger Games director Francis Lawrence and starring Mark Hamil (Star Wars), David Jonsson (BAFTA EE Rising Star, Rye Lane), and Cooper Hoffman (Liquorice Pizza, Saturday Night Live). For years, readers wrote asking if Richard Bachman was really world-bestselling Stephen King writing under another name. Now the secret is out - and so, brought together in one volume, are these three spellbinding stories of future shock and suspense.The Long Walk: A chilling look at the ultra-conservative America of the future where a grueling 450-mile marathon is the ultimate sports competition.Roadwork: An immovable man refuses to surrender to the irresistible force of progress.The Running Man: TV's future-favourite game show, where contestants are hunted to death in the attempt to win a $1 billion jackpot.
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Author
Richard Bachman
Pages
992
Publisher
Hodder & Stoughton
Published Date
2007-06-14
ISBN
1848941048 9781848941045
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"I didn't get to read this , just the short story, Rage..which obviously didn't stop school shootings ...but I get it I guess. It was a good short story. Nothing all that suspenseful or violent as you think it would be. It was a lot more about society/psychology."
Nena Colunga
"4⭐ for Rage<br/>5⭐ for The Long Walk<br/>2⭐ for Roadwork<br/>5⭐ for The Running Man<br/><br/>Wow. I really loved The Running Man & The Long Walk. The Hunger Games has nothing on these. Rage was good and very interesting, but rambled on for a bit. Roadwork was just boring AF. I wish that The Long Walk & The Running Man were actual lengthy books."
Emily
"A great collection of 4 short novels. Rage is the first and is about a high school student who holds his classroom hostage at gun point. The Long Walk is just what you would expect. A group of 100 teenage boys sign up to go on this walk and the last one standing gets the ultimate prize. Roadwork is about a man who loses everything due to eminent domain, and The Running Man is about a game show where you have to run to survive."
Christopher Allen
"The original included the short story Rage, which understandably King didn't want published any longer after the rise in American school shootings..."
Angela Scharber
