5/8/2023 0 Comments The long walk bachman![]() ![]() ![]() I count this book as among King's finest works: a horrifying piece of not-horror that's as powerful today as it was when it was released in 1979. You'd expect The Long Walk to fall foul of the same youthful errors, but, somehow, it transcends them. That's not to say it's bad, per se: just that the ideas in it, the execution of it, aren't a patch on where King's skills would push him in later novels. I've previously talked about Rage, his second published novel, and one that I think is pretty easy to see as juvenilia. ![]() In fact, The Long Walk is the earliest of all King's books, written when he was just 18. T he Long Walk is one of the famed "Bachman Books", novels that King wrote before he was published in his own name, and that were only published (under the pseudonym Richard Bachman) in the wake of the success of Salem's Lot. ![]()
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