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A review by zoebill96
The Running Man by Stephen King, Richard Bachman
adventurous
dark
tense
fast-paced
- Plot- or character-driven? Plot
- Strong character development? No
- Loveable characters? No
- Diverse cast of characters? No
- Flaws of characters a main focus? No
3.5
Content Warnings
Graphic: Racial slurs and Racism
Moderate: Cancer, Child death, Chronic illness, Death, Gore, Gun violence, Infertility, Racial slurs, Racism, Rape, Violence, Blood, Excrement, Police brutality, Medical trauma, Murder, and Injury/Injury detail
This book is essentially “hunted” but more extreme. As always I love Stephen king, he always manages to keep me engrossed in the story and he is a magnificent story teller. I appreciate that this book was written in the 1980’s but there was just no need for the amount of racist remarks made - completely ruined the book for me as it didn’t add any depth to the story line at all.
I did love the twist at the very end though, I shouldn’t have expected it to be predictable but I was lulled into a false sense of predictions and he did a full 360 on me.
I also felt very unnerved about how it was written in 1983, but set in 2025 and referring to the past being 2020/2002/1997 - the world I am literally living in now - mind = blown