The Long Walk

The narrator inflicts the pain and plodding nature of this story, and drags you along the path relentlessly s the characters in the story. The only issue is that every so often, a sentence will hard cut off, it takes you out of the moment and makes it difficult to follow.

I LOVE this book. I had never read this particular King/Bachman book and decided to try it out. I have now listened to it 8 or 10 times. The only issue is that the editing department got a little too excited and cut off sentences too soon. You can still understand the book and the meaning but it does mess with the flow of the character\’s conversations and the \”reader\”/listener\’s concentration.

I was initially put off from checking this out from other reviews bemoaning the audio editing of this book. Sure there are some sentences where the last syllable is chopped off – it happens maybe 50 times. Sounds like a lot but it never got in the way of the story for me, and Im really glad I dived in regardless. This book clearly came from the same place in Bachmans brain as The Running Man. Its set around a sort of Battle Royale / Hunger games scenario thats stripped back to a super basic core – walking. Non stop walking. It would be hard for most authors to take something so basic and make it enjoyable for so long, but not King / Bachman. Here he does what he does best and brings us troubled characters with stories to tell up against grim odds. I heartily recommend you go along for the walk!

The book is probably my favorite of the Bachman books, but this particular version has some very choppy audio editing that buries sentences, runs through pauses, and sometimes cuts out entire phrases. Fix those issues and my review score would go up.

Words seem to get cut off half way, hard to tell if there was more that was supposed to be said.

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