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WELCOME TO AMERICA IN 2025 WHEN THE BEST MEN DON'T RUN FOR PRESIDENT, THEY RUN FOR THEIR LIVES--IN THE ULTIMATE DEATH GAME.
Each night all Americans tune in to the nation's favorite TV game show--The Running Man.
Each night they see if the contestant has evaded death at the hands of the Hunters just one more day. Thirty days of survival takes the prize--one billion dollars.
The record is eight days...
But now a new contestant, Ben Richards, has set out to beat the brutal odds, beat the rigged game, beat the entire savage system. He's betting his life that he can...
--back cover
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In the version of the audiobook that I listened to, there is a retrospective forward by King that mentions that the pseudonym Richard Bachman could serve as a vector for his angry and aggressive tendencies. While I generally like King, this side of him is not my favourite.
I have read plenty of unpleasant bleak dystopian novels that I have enjoyed, but basically every moment of this one is full of rage and there is very little time for anything else. There is a lot of aggressive language even just in the description of characters, though some of that maybe also is just a reflection of the time in which it is written, and even just the "victories" present throughout the book are just sort of nihilistic.
I feel like I never really got a good sense of the world, and there are a lot of ideas that are brought up briefly and discarded. Maybe it would have worked better if I was into the book more, because I do think its interesting to come into this story without a bunch of leadup into how The Running Man came about, but it still just felt pretty thin to me.
King is unquestionably a gifted thriller writer though, so there are many scenes of action or suspense that had my full engagement moment to moment, I just don't think it worked as a whole for me.
Interesting concept and story, but I was not a fan of the style of writing. Be careful not to read the essay in the front of the book or you will ruin the ending before you start.
No sabía que esperar de éste libro y sinceramente me ha encantado