Wherein our hero Durfee reviews The Long Walk by Stephen King and our Constant Viewers (you all) learn much. #StephenKing #TheLongWalk #BookReview
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@B.LEE.DbrianleedurfeeREVIEWS3 жыл бұрын
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@angelaholmes88882 жыл бұрын
The long walk is one of my favorite books from king I can't wait to see the adaptation 😊💜
@jonathansears75904 жыл бұрын
Those candles near your books give me mild anxiety!
@B.LEE.DbrianleedurfeeREVIEWS4 жыл бұрын
I did that on purpose. Create some tension.
@peterenevoldsen71993 ай бұрын
Cut down on the soy milk.
@BaldBookTuber8 ай бұрын
I just completed this absolute masterpiece. Can’t believe he wrote this at 18 - crazy.
@bluesky53842 ай бұрын
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!
@tannerhachey15253 ай бұрын
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_Morrison3 жыл бұрын
I was blown away by The Long Walk, and it is also one I reread alot, along with The Mist.
@jimsbooksreadingandstuff3 жыл бұрын
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.
@BeardedBookworm4 жыл бұрын
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.DbrianleedurfeeREVIEWS4 жыл бұрын
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 Жыл бұрын
Just finnished reading it and loved it! Thanks for the review. :) Starting Roadwork now!
@lisac16192 жыл бұрын
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.
@jch515011 ай бұрын
Best Stephen King short story bar none!!
@saraw64464 жыл бұрын
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
@turtleanton65394 жыл бұрын
Its 10/10 for sure
@Maximus0623 Жыл бұрын
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?
@gotsouced49439 ай бұрын
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
@electrichorseman71583 жыл бұрын
Love the long walk ..that’s high praise ..nick cage
@calista33713 жыл бұрын
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-wf6pqАй бұрын
One of my favorite books of all time. It just can't be my favorite because of its brutality
@electrichorseman71583 жыл бұрын
One my favorite Stephen king books ...
@freedomcobra8150 Жыл бұрын
Just finished it. I thought it was pretty screwed up and brilliant at the same time.
@zombie55058 ай бұрын
Forgetting moon was pretty good
@turtleanton65394 жыл бұрын
Fantastic book
@absentehhh82632 жыл бұрын
This was so good I love this and the shining
@electrichorseman71583 жыл бұрын
So true what you said ..the pages will fly by ...you won’t realize it
@stews9 Жыл бұрын
Yet it is teenaged boys most often sent to war. Think it through and you end with atrocities.
@dpeady783 жыл бұрын
Just read this for the first time this week, what an amazing book - when I was 18 I was a big idiot
@michaelwoolvin21842 жыл бұрын
Interesting
@mikefitzgerald413 жыл бұрын
Great book but the movie would probably suck like Maximum Overdrive
@BurningAshPlays3 жыл бұрын
THE LONG WALK MOVIE BETTER HAPPEN
@patcoston4 жыл бұрын
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.DbrianleedurfeeREVIEWS4 жыл бұрын
Great extra info Patrick
@turtleanton65393 жыл бұрын
Try reading another book sometime
@patcoston3 жыл бұрын
@@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.33843 жыл бұрын
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.
@patcoston3 жыл бұрын
@@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.