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Charles Pulliam-Moore @ The Verge · today 09:30 EDT

The Long Walk is a dystopian slog where brutality is the main point

When Stephen King's The Long Walk was first published in 1979, dystopian young adult fiction had not yet become a wildly popular genre. With all of its gore and brutality, King's novel wasn't really meant for children. But in the book's story about disillusioned youths being made to march through wastelands as a form of […]

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