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Stephen King (writing as Richard Bachman) crafted The Running Man early in his career, though after such mega-hits as Carrie and The Shining. A bit of a departure from the supernatural horror that is most frequently associated with his work, the novel describes a science fiction dystopia where market capitalism and television game shows have spiraled out of control, and the separation between the haves and the have-nots has been formalized with separate currencies. King establishes characters quickly, creating sympathy in the first few pages for Ben Richards--whose 18-month-old baby girl is suffering from a horrible cough, perhaps pneumonia. Not able to afford medicine, Richards enters himself in the last-chance money-making scheme of the Free-Vee games. The games include Treadmill to Bucks, in which heart-attack prone contestants struggle to outlast a progressively demanding treadmill, or the accurately named Swim the Crocodiles. After a rigorous battery of physical and mental examinations, Richards is assigned "Elevator Six"--the path of a chosen few--that leads to The Running Man game. In this game, the stakes and the prizes are raised. Success means a life of luxury. Failure means death. Unfortunately, few ever win the game; in fact, as the producer tells Richards, in six years no one has survived.

The Running Man is a short book, tightly written to be read and enjoyed quickly. The future world it depicts is vividly captured with a few essential details. The action is also fast paced and, though the novel differs from much of King's other work, the sardonic social commentary reveals a pleasing glimmer of King's characteristically twisted sense of humor. --Patrick O'Kelley This text refers to an alternate Paperback edition.

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5.0étoiles sur 5 An Excellent Thriller!!!, Nov. 20 2006
Par Erico (British Columbia, Canada) - Voir tous mes commentaires
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This review is from: The Running Man (Paperback)
It's 2025. The world's poor live in abject poverty while the rich live in highrises ignoring the starving masses grovelling around them. Dissent is repressed by heavy handed police, and the ironically named Free Vee (the TV went out of style years ago) with its sadistic game shows. These macabre shows - with names like 'Fun Guns' and 'Dig Your Own Grave' - tempt desperate slum dwellers with quick cash but in order to obtain the prize money the contestants must put their body and pride on the line for the enjoyment of the millions of viewers across the world. One man, Ben Richards, driven by the inability to provide for his wife and influenza stricken daughter, decides to join the hundreds of impoverished who line up before the enourmous Games Building for a chance to win the elusive prizes. Richards however is different from the average drug addict or street bum who tries out for the games. He's fit and smart - exceptionally smart. So intelligent that he's picked for the most grueling show of all: 'The Running Man'. A game where the player must try to stay free as long as he can as he tries to hide from the rest of America and a group of elite special forces called the Hunters. If the contestant is caught before thirty days (an impossible goal) the game is over and the contestant killed.

I immiediatly began to enjoy the main character, Ben Richards from the very start. King creates a typical outcast of society, and rebel of authority but then adds a more sensitive side to the character. Balancing Richards' scathing wit with his powerful love for his family the author makes Richards both intensly charismatic and convincing. Defintely one of my favourite literary characters ever. However King doesn't stop there. The supporting characters are all really realistic as well especially people like Evan Mcone - the sinister leader of the Hunters - and Bradley - the streetwise visionary who is attempting to start a revolution.

King also adds a little bit of satire in his novel. In 'The Running Man' he brings to light how TV is a dangerous weapon which can be used against people. The Free Vee in his novel is a horrible object which pumps propaganda and manufactured happiness into the homes of millions across the nation. It easily suppresses the masses who would otherwise rise up in rebellion. With America today inudated with war propaganda and mindless reality TV shows it is not difficult to find the parallel between the story and reality. In times like these this novel gives an important warning that not everything you see on the boob tube is real.

The novel combines this satirical edge and realistic characters into an exciting storyline which will keep you 'running' through the book as fast as you can to reach the action packed conclusion. An excellent intelligent thriller every one should read.
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3.0étoiles sur 5 An exciting read that lacks the usual King depth, Juil 27 2006
Par Daniel Jolley "darkgenius" (Shelby, North Carolina USA) - Voir tous mes commentaires
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This review is from: The Running Man (Paperback)
We've all heard the story about the writer who booked himself into a hotel on Friday and walked out Monday morning with a complete book in his hands (it was the Bible - he'd stolen it from the room). With The Running Man, though, we have a complete novel that was written in only three days - and was published with almost no changes to that original draft. Is it even possible to write a decent novel in three days? Yes - but, obviously, The Running Man is not your typical Stephen King novel (which is a large part of the reason it was published under the pseudonym of Richard Bachman). Action is the gas pedal, and King floored it from page one until the very end. Surprisingly, though, there is some pretty decent characterization of the main player - and a heavy undertone of social commentary worked into the book.

The setting is a future America in which society has totally fractured, leaving those on the wrong side of the tracks doomed to a life of misery. Ben Richards personifies that social inequity - unable to find work because of his antiestablishment ways (for some reason, he didn't want to keep working at a job which exposed the old family jewels to dangerous amounts of radiation leakage), he can't take care of his family - his wife keeps turning tricks for money, and his 18-month-old daughter has the flu and will likely die without proper medicine. There is only one way out for him - the Network Games. The whole nation is fascinated with the Free-Vee game shows, shows such as Treadmill to Bucks or Swim With the Crocodiles. No show satisfies the bloodlust of the public like The Running Man does, though, and a man of Richards' temperament is just the kind of player the show is looking for.

The game is simple. Richards is paraded out in front of the cameras, castigated as a dangerous low-life, then turned loose on the streets. A few hours later, the show's Hunters begin going after him. Richards wins money for every hour he can avoid capture (and by capture, I mean bloody death - broadcast live to the whole country), with bonuses for any cops killed along the way. Best of all, the viewing public can win money for themselves by turning him in if they see him. Richards proves himself a worthy contestant indeed - the Game in fact, will never be the same.

This is one of my least favorite King novels, primarily because it's so action-oriented. It doesn't put down roots, and it doesn't delve completely into the minds of any characters other than the protagonist. It is, in fact, like a weak film adaptation of a King novel - stripped of all the nuances that make King such a special writer. That's not to way this isn't an exciting novel because it is - that's about all it is, though.
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5.0étoiles sur 5 Short, sweet, and full of protein., Fév 19 2004
This review is from: The Running Man (Paperback)
WARNING: The following review contains spoilers!

Stephen King, in the '80s, was at the peak of his writing skill. Fresh out of University but scared that the public wouldn't appriciate his work, he wrote the classics It, Thinner, The Stand, among others, under the pseudonym of Richard Bachman. But ever since he gained status as a 'literary genius' - and changed his pen-name back to his native - he's been fumbling a bit, especially with his most recent works which have been total crap. But there's still his classics to contend with, one being The Running Man, which has been overlooked time and time again despite the fact having been turned into a movie with Arnold Schwarzenegger. Then again, the movie was garbage, so that's your knackered.

The novel takes place in the year 2027, in a Dystopian society where big business is everywhere, the air smells like a chain smoker 24/7, and television has become the leading medium. 'Free-Vees' are in every home, as eager audiences tune in every night to their favourite game show, of which there are many, produced by the evil Games Corporation. One such program is The Running Man, the most popular show for the company to date. Why you ask? The answer is simple: The contestants are middle-class citizens, who have been deemed 'deliquants' by the Games Commission after taking part in several apptitude tests. Once chosen, the contestant is let loose on the world, with one catch: They must survive 30 days without being killed by the Games Commission 'Hunters,' or complete strangers from off the street, who are paid exorbitant amounts of money to do so. If the contestant survives, they win a billion dollars. The record of survival in the six years the show has been on the air has been 8 days.

The new contestant on the show, Benjamin Richards, is a hard-case: A man who's been fired from almost every position he's ever held because of his firery attitude. His daughter is dying of peunomia, and signs up to be in one of the Games. His tests are some of the highest the Commission has ever seen, so they sign him up for The Running Man. He doesn't care - he has nothing to lose.

Along the way, Richards meets up with some strange personas, who may or may not be trying to help him win like he thinks... Some of them are: the producer of the show, the slimy Dan Killan; a woman he ends up taking hostage, Amelia Williams; and the Chief Hunter, Evan McCoy. So, he runs, and dodges, and runs some more, starting at the Games Building in Los Angeles, until the final confrontation at an airport in Newark, where Richards tries to escape from McCoy and his troupe, and must decide whether or not to sacrifice himself, or see if he can beat the survival record by just a few more minutes.

The Running Man is a great read, and a relatively short one too. King blends elements of social commentary, science-fiction, and action, all leading up to a shockingly violent set-piece, and quite an affecting and unexpected ending (A little hint: One of the main characters has his/her guts dragging behind him/her, literally! And one of the characters flies a jumbo jet into a building!). The novel seemed like a cross between George Orwell's 1984, the television show Fear Factor, and Oliver Stone's movie Natural Born Killers. If that's your sort of match-up, then The Running Man might just be your most overlooked novel of the decade.

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4.0étoiles sur 5 Eerily prophetic action novel
The Running Man is a quick and exciting read - nonstop action will keep you turning the pages. In 2025, reality television dominates the airwaves, putting health and even lives at... Read more
Publié le Janv. 4 2004 par Qu Appelle

5.0étoiles sur 5 An action novel with a suprising amount of social commentary
Let me preface this reveiw by urging anyone who has seen the movie to not judge the book by it. This book, although not 1984, is far more profund than anything with Arnold... Read more
Publié le Nov. 16 2003 par James Kunz

4.0étoiles sur 5 You can run but you can't hide.
It is the year 2025, TV is truly the opiate of the people, and society is divided sharply between the haves and the have-nots. Ben Richards' family is in the latter group. Read more
Publié le Nov. 16 2003 par bonsai chicken

4.0étoiles sur 5 Run to the store and get this!
This is an interesting short novel set in the not too distant future. Richards is unemployed, poor and has a dieing daughter who he cannot afford drugs for. Read more
Publié le Nov. 12 2003 par James N Simpson

5.0étoiles sur 5 Forget seeing the movie....
read this book. The movie simply pales in comparison. The underground post-apocalyptic game area of the movie just made no sense. This book actually takes part in the U.S. Read more
Publié le Aoû 20 2003 par grz76

4.0étoiles sur 5 It's more like 4 1/2
This is a very good book. Panomanal, exstrodinary, great! But not 5 star King. You see, I'm a very big fan, huge fan, but I don't throw out 5 stars. Read more
Publié le Mai 7 2003

5.0étoiles sur 5 One of thee best books I've ever read!
I could baley bring myself to put this bok down! I'd read for hours every night trying to get to a good spot to stop, but I couldn't find one, the book made me read! Read more
Publié le Mars 21 2003

4.0étoiles sur 5 Fun and Thrilling, you want to constanly know what happens
This was as really fun, fast read. It is not very long so you can read it in about an afternoon or if you are a slower reader, a day or two. Read more
Publié le Fév 15 2003 par Photopro

4.0étoiles sur 5 great read..short and intense
this was so different from the movie, thank god. it is a story about a society out of control and the tv game shows head the pack. Read more
Publié le Fév 3 2003 par Daniel J. Hagerman

5.0étoiles sur 5 Fast-paced action, one of Bachman's best
I've read online reviews of Richard Bachman/Stephen King's novel The Running Man, and some of them claim that this book lacks a certain something that relegates it to being the... Read more
Publié le Déc 21 2002 par Joe Kenney

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