The Running Man
By Stephen King
Writing as Richard Bachman
In a time where poverty is the norm,
Ben Richards is willing to forfeit his life to save his eighteen month old
daughter who is dying of influenza. Richards is soon chosen for The Running
Man, a reality TV show where everyone is hunting him for a prize. When nowhere
is safe and you must survive to earn your prize what would you do to win?
I don’t remember watching this movie
but I know if I were to ask my mother she would swear I have seen it, growing
up with a Stephen King buff I probably have, but when I first started this book
the first thing I thought was Jebus it’s the original Hunger Games, without
children killing each other. Ben Richards is an average guy in hard times which
makes him highly relatable, well unless you are a spoiled rich kid I guess, and
he is just doing his best to support his family which adds into the story a
sympathetic dimension. All in all it’s an interesting read; if you are a fan of
the dystopian genre then you should definitely pick this one up if you haven’t
read it already.
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