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A review by layemi
The Running Man by Stephen King, Richard Bachman
3.0
I really really wanted to love this book. I read the longest walk also by Stephen King, and it is now one of my favourite books of all time, so I was really looking forward to reading another one of his dystopian future books.
It started out great, as usual just the writing skill itself is amazing in this book. Reading it felt like I was watching an action packed movie, and I was thinking how it has to be made into a movie if it hasn’t been yet (it has).
When the main game started and the conspiracies started coming to light it was interesting then too, but as he started going from place to place with basically the same thing happening everywhere, it started to get really boring and tedious, and just felt like it was going nowhere.
I understand where King (Bachman) was trying to go with the plot, and I understood that it was building up to something, but it was just taking way way WAY too long to get there.
The ending wasn’t necessarily disappointing, but I can’t say that I didn’t see it coming. I saw the end of the long walk coming too, but in that novel the build up to what I knew but didn’t want to believe would happen was written and described so beautifully, the ending left me nearly in tears.
With this novel however I was just glad I was finally done with the book.
How well written this novel was and how much I enjoyed for the long walk will keep me still reading his novels, but this one definitely let me down a little bit.
It started out great, as usual just the writing skill itself is amazing in this book. Reading it felt like I was watching an action packed movie, and I was thinking how it has to be made into a movie if it hasn’t been yet (it has).
When the main game started and the conspiracies started coming to light it was interesting then too, but as he started going from place to place with basically the same thing happening everywhere, it started to get really boring and tedious, and just felt like it was going nowhere.
I understand where King (Bachman) was trying to go with the plot, and I understood that it was building up to something, but it was just taking way way WAY too long to get there.
The ending wasn’t necessarily disappointing, but I can’t say that I didn’t see it coming. I saw the end of the long walk coming too, but in that novel the build up to what I knew but didn’t want to believe would happen was written and described so beautifully, the ending left me nearly in tears.
With this novel however I was just glad I was finally done with the book.
How well written this novel was and how much I enjoyed for the long walk will keep me still reading his novels, but this one definitely let me down a little bit.