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370 pages, Mass Market Paperback
First published December 1, 1978
“They're animals, all right. But why are you so goddam sure that makes us human beings?”How much do I love this book? There are too many ways to count actually, which is why no matter how many re-reads I've done of it (and there have been many over the years), The Long Walk has always left me too intimidated to review it. I managed a brief blurb of something when I listened to the audiobook a few years back, but never a "real review". So heaven help me, here's my real review.
“They walked through the rainy dark like gaunt ghosts, and Garraty didn't like to look at them. They were the walking dead.”
"Three-six-nine, the goose drank wine
The monkey chewed tobacco on the streetcar line
The line broke
The monkey got choked
And they all went to Heaven in a little rowboat….
—Children’s rhyme
“Any game looks straight if everyone is being cheated at once.”