THE LONG WALK / Stephen King / Book Review / Brian Lee Durfee (spoiler free) The Bachman Books

Wherein our hero Durfee reviews The Long Walk by Stephen King and our Constant Viewers (you all) learn much. #StephenKing #TheLongWalk #BookReview

[@B.LEE.DbrianleedurfeeREVIEWS]

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[@angelaholmes8888]

The long walk is one of my favorite books from king I can't wait to see the adaptation 😊💜

[@jonathansears7590]

Those candles near your books give me mild anxiety!

[@B.LEE.DbrianleedurfeeREVIEWS]

I did that on purpose. Create some tension.

[@peterenevoldsen7199]

Cut down on the soy milk.

[@BaldBookTuber]

I just completed this absolute masterpiece. Can’t believe he wrote this at 18 - crazy.

[@bluesky5384]

I read this a few days ago. I absolutely love it. The ending stick with me and is haunting. I checked out a copy of The Running Man to start tonight!

[@tannerhachey1525]

Great book, you don't even have to be a "Stephen King fan" to enjoy the long walk it's just a great book and it doesn't even take that long to read either.

[@Michael_L_Morrison]

I was blown away by The Long Walk, and it is also one I reread alot, along with The Mist.

[@jimsbooksreadingandstuff]

The Long Walk is one of my favorite Stephen King novels. The Battle Royale style of the story reminds me of the Hunger Games, which you mention in the clip.

[@BeardedBookworm]

My man, your reviews are so good! I’d love to be able to film a video in one take. Great Review. Also, 4 mph is insanely fast for a sustainable distance walk.

[@B.LEE.DbrianleedurfeeREVIEWS]

If I knew how to edit and do fancy graphics I would. And eventually maybe I will learn those things but for now it's all low budget

[@hydraliskhs61]

Just finnished reading it and loved it! Thanks for the review. :) Starting Roadwork now!

[@lisac1619]

I recently reread this one and it hit me in the gut as much as the first reading. Don't think a movie could do it justice but I just finished watching Squid Game which had a similar sickly, claustrophobic feeling to this story.

[@jch5150]

Best Stephen King short story bar none!!

[@saraw6446]

I read the Bachman books years ago & The Long Walk is the one I remember most, it was awesome & always hoped it would be a movie someday

[@turtleanton6539]

Its 10/10 for sure

[@Maximus0623]

I was shocked by how good this book was because it isn’t one of King’s more famous works. You don’t see it on top 10 Stephen King lists. This book should be way more popular than it is. Maybe because it was originally published under Richard Bachman?

[@gotsouced4943]

It was one of the first grown-up books I read after Goosebumps when I was a kid it's been one of my favorite books ever since

[@electrichorseman7158]

Love the long walk ..that’s high praise ..nick cage

[@calista3371]

I love this book. This is the only Bachman book I really like (I haven't read Blaze yet). This is a top 10 book for me.

[@JonKooistra-wf6pq]

One of my favorite books of all time. It just can't be my favorite because of its brutality

[@electrichorseman7158]

One my favorite Stephen king books ...

[@freedomcobra8150]

Just finished it. I thought it was pretty screwed up and brilliant at the same time.

[@zombie5505]

Forgetting moon was pretty good

[@turtleanton6539]

Fantastic book

[@absentehhh8263]

This was so good I love this and the shining

[@electrichorseman7158]

So true what you said ..the pages will fly by ...you won’t realize it

[@stews9]

Yet it is teenaged boys most often sent to war. Think it through and you end with atrocities.

[@dpeady78]

Just read this for the first time this week, what an amazing book - when I was 18 I was a big idiot

[@michaelwoolvin2184]

Interesting

[@mikefitzgerald41]

Great book but the movie would probably suck like Maximum Overdrive

[@BurningAshPlays]

THE LONG WALK MOVIE BETTER HAPPEN

[@patcoston]

The Long Walk is my favorite Stephen King novel. I've watched 100+ reviews of it on KZbin and everyone gets certain details wrong. I counted 8 mistakes in your review. I've read it 7 times and listened to it 16 times as a research project for this web page patcoston.com/StephenKing/TheLongWalk.aspx. (1) You said it's the first novel King wrote. Actually, The Aftermath is the first novel King wrote, completed age 16, but he never published it. (2) You called Rage, The Rage (3) you said he wrote The Long Walk under the pen-name Richard Bachman, but he didn't invent that pen-name until much later (4) You said it wrote it age 18. He started it age 18 but finished it age 19 as a freshman at the University of Maine, which the Long Walk passes. He has the walk make an awkward detour at Oldtown so it can pass through Orono, where he went to college. (5) You said it's a dystopian, but the word does not fit. Definition: relating to or denoting an imagined state or society where there is great suffering or injustice. If it was a dystopian, then they would be forced into this competition. Not only do they volunteer, but they have to pass a physical and mental test, and only 100 walkers are chosen in the lottery, along with 100 backups. And they have two opportunities to back out. Nobody is forcing them. The word you looking for totalitarian because Garraty's dad spoke against the Major and he got squadded. (6) You mentioned they walk down the freeway. They do walk down the Maine Turnpike for 87 miles out of 440 miles. That's only about 20% of the walk. You can drive and walk the entire route. patcoston.com/StephenKing/TheLongWalk-Route.aspx (7) You said they cannot stop walking. They can stop walking for 1 minute and 59 seconds, every 3 hours. They each have a 2-minute timer which counts down when their speed in the correct direction falls below 4 mph. They get warnings when their timers reach 90, 60, 30 and a ticket at 0. They lose a warning every hour they walk without a warning, meaning their timers reset to 60, 90 and 120. Garraty stopped when he had his cramp. Garraty stopped to visit with his girlfriend and mother. Garraty and others stopped many times. (8) You said they get a warning if they fall below 4 mph. I've already explained how it works. You read about it here. patcoston.com/StephenKing/TheLongWalk-Rules.aspx

[@B.LEE.DbrianleedurfeeREVIEWS]

Great extra info Patrick

[@turtleanton6539]

Try reading another book sometime

[@patcoston]

@@turtleanton6539 I'm 11 books away from reading all of King's novels. I've read most of the novellas and short-stories too. King has a lot of uncollected short-stories that I haven't read. I was able to find Rage the audiobook on KZbin and get a copy of eBook. Links here patcoston.com/StephenKing/StephenKing-links.aspx I just finished In The Tall Grass co-written with his son Joe Hill. I loved it so much, I'm listening to it again. I'm also watching the Netflix movie again. It's like the movie The Mist in that it extends the story appending a new ending. Every time I've re-read or re-listened to The Long Walk, I learn a bunch of new things. I learned 3 new things the 24th time. I'll keep reading it as long as I'm learning new things.

[@danijelb.3384]

This site is amazing. Thank you, dude. There’s so much things I missed. I finished the book last week and I liked it, but now over the last few days I’m realizing it’s so much more to it.

[@patcoston]

@@danijelb.3384 The genius of the book is that the plot feels simple and the rules also feels simple but in reality, both are complicated. I've read it 24 times and I've learned a few new things each time. I'll be reading it a 25th time soon. I've also fact checked every review on KZbin that I could find. The amazing thing is that nobody can review The Long Walk without saying something that isn't true (unless their review is short and vague). I understood how the rules worked after about the 10th read and taking notes so I don't expect anyone to get it right. The funny thing is that they think they understood it, but they didn't.