Stephen King: "The Running Man"

This science-fiction novel is one of the best artworks of Stephen King.

He wrote this book under the pseudonym Richard Bachman. This is one of the quick-reading books for me. The number of pages is small and besides you're just turning page after page very fast, because the story line is so interesting. Stephen King takes us to United States to the year 2025. He takes us to the world full of violence and ruined economy of the nation.

The most interesting of the story line is the Game Show, in which contestants allowed to go wherever they want, are chased by hunters ready to kill them.

I really liked the view of chapters in this book, because every chapter looks like a countdown.

However the saddest thing in this novel is definitely main character. He was unable to find work, his daughter was very ill and she needed expensive medicines. His wife to help find some money, she had to work as a prostitute... Very sad family situation. That is why the main character Ben, full of desperation turns to the Game Network- an government-operated TV station that runs very violent game show. After very hard process of physical and mental testing, Ben takes a part in the most dangerous and violent game called "The Running Man".

To be honest, that book scared me, but mostly it just hit me with the brutality of this world Stephen King takes us to. I have to admit that it was very interesting and moving book experience, because in one way it was very good story, but on the other hand it was so brutal, violent and scary that

I was stopping my breath sometimes.

The author shows us in the book America in a very crazy and sometimes unimaginable science fiction vision and this is great opportunity for our imagination to grow. Thank to this, you can go very far away in your own imaginary world to feel the panic and terror of the main character, to feel sorry for his daughter and wife and most of all to feel the desperation filling him from inside.

King shows us again, how great and unlimited his mind is and what kind of awesome storyteller he really is. This is a great story, a little sad, brutal and scary, but it gives you so many emotions, you can barely handle.

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