The Long Walk

I had been curious to read the Long Walk after my husband had said that after reading it, that it is one book he thinks about a lot. I wasn't the least bit disappointed in this book.

In a futuristic world, boys around America sign up for the annual “long walk” where their task is to keep walking towards an unknown finish line until there is one lone walker. Those who drop out of the walk meet with fatal consequences.

In reading this story, I kept thinking about what kind of society had this country become to allow a competition like this to occur. Stephen King can certainly provoke thought and emotion through his prose. This story was disturbing, and like my husband, this is not a story I will soon forget.