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Ncohv [Read Free Ebook] the Running Man (English Edition) Online ncohv [Read free ebook] The Running Man (English Edition) Online [ncohv.ebook] The Running Man (English Edition) Pdf Free Par Stephen King ebooks | Download PDF | *ePub | DOC | audiobook Download Now Free Download Here Download eBook Détails sur le produit Rang parmi les ventes : #125030 dans eBooksPublié le: 2016-01-01Sorti le: 2016-01- 01Format: Ebook Kindle | File size: 43.Mb Par Stephen King : The Running Man (English Edition) before purchasing it in order to gage whether or not it would be worth my time, and all praised The Running Man (English Edition): Commentaires clientsCommentaires clients les plus utiles2 internautes sur 2 ont trouvé ce commentaire utile. Malaise dans la civilisationPar Stephane MotDans sa tragique fuite en avant, Bart Dawes s'impose comme le personnage le plus attachant créé par le regretté Richard Bachman.La nouvelle n'a pas pris une ride et son effet conserve toute sa puissance même si depuis un quart de siècle bien d'autres ont croqué avec plus ou moins de bonheur le pétage de plombs d'un Américain moyen devant des non-choix de société.Si Bachman a le sens du récit de son alter-ego (le Balzac de l'Amérique de la fin du XXe siècle, alias Stephen King... qui au passage serait inspiré de ne pas le ressusciter pour des inepties du type "The Regulators"), il ne cède en rien aux sirènes d'Hollywood ni à un optimisme mal maquillé par d'épaisses couches d'hémoglobine. La violence de "Roadwork" s'avère moins inhumaine et diablement plus efficace. Stéphane MOT2 internautes sur 2 ont trouvé ce commentaire utile. don't get robbed, don't buy this bookPar chloeif you think you are an intelligent person and you would like to think by yourself of the relevance of the novel "rage" supposed to be in this book after reading it: FORGET IT, IT IS NOT THERE AS YOU ARE WRONGLY EXPLAINED IN COMMENTS...in this book of 978 pages total you will find only 3 novels and not 4. thinking i am smart enough to decide for myself how a book can influence "real life" and being very interested in this relation on a scientific level, i feel robbed. shoul be more clear about the content of a book like this one and should put a ps to the comments of readers suggesting you will find in it something that is not there.1 internautes sur 1 ont trouvé ce commentaire utile. Let the Games beginPar Audrey BAmusant comme des décennies avant on retrouve déjà l'idée qui fera le succès de "the Hunger games"Dans un futur proche (voire même très proche maintenant), les médias omniprésents lavent le cerveau d'une population soumise et souffrante en leur offrant en pâture des spectacles télévisuels cruels dont le but est de torturer les candidats.Le pire de ces programmes est "the running man" où le candidat doit survivre 30 jours, traqué par des chasseurs surentraînés sous la menace de se faire dénoncer par ceux qui croiseront son chemin. Chaque heure de survie lui rapporte de l'argent et c'est vers ce "jeu" que se tourne Ben Richards lorsqu'il s'agit de sauver sa petite fille malade.Ce n'est peut-être pas le chef d'oeuvre de King/Bachman mais c'est un roman fort et sombre que j'ai beaucoup apprécié. Description du produitThe year is 2025. The Running Man is America's favorite television game show. Ben Richards is the program's latest contestant-and the Hunters' latest target in a rigged game of death. Présentation de l'éditeurA desperate man attempts to win a reality TV game where the only objective is to stay alive in this #1 national bestseller from Stephen King, writing as Richard Bachman.It was the ultimate death game in a nightmare future America. The year is 2025 and reality TV has grown to the point where people are willing to wager their lives for a chance at a billion-dollar jackpot. Ben Richards is desperate—he needs money to treat his daughter’s illness. His last chance is entering a game show called The Running Man where the goal is to avoid capture by Hunters who are employed to kill him. Surviving this month-long chase is another issue when everyone else on the planet is watching—and willing to turn him in for the reward. Each night all Americans tune in to watch. So far, the record for survival is only eight days. Can Ben Richards beat the brutal odds, beat the rigged game, beat the entire savage system? He’s betting his life that he can… With an introduction by Stephen King on “The Importance of Being Bachman,” The Running Man is a terrifying novel about the eternal fight of good versus evil..comStephen 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'KelleyExtraitThe Running Man . Minus 100 and COUNTING . She was squinting at the thermometer in the white light coming through the window. Beyond her, in the drizzle, the other highrises in Co-Op City rose like the gray turrets of a penitentiary. Below, in the airshaft, clotheslines flapped with ragged wash. Rats and plump alley cats circulated through the garbage. She looked at her husband. He was seated at the table, staring up at the Free-Vee with steady, vacant concentration. He had been watching it for weeks now. It wasn’t like him. He hated it, always had. Of course, every Development apartment had one—it was the law—but it was still legal to turn them off. The Compulsory Benefit Bill of 2021 had failed to get the required two-thirds majority by six votes. Ordinarily they never watched it. But ever since Cathy had gotten sick, he had been watching the big-money giveaways. It filled her with sick fear. Behind the compulsive shrieking of the half- time announcer narrating the latest newsie flick, Cathy’s flu-hoarsened wailing went on and on. “How bad is it?” Richards asked. “Not so bad.” “Don’t shit me.” “It’s a hundred and four.” He brought both fists down on the table. A plastic dish jumped into the air and clattered down. “We’ll get a doctor. Try not to worry so much. Listen—” She began to babble frantically to distract him; he had turned around and was watching the Free-Vee again. Half-time was over, and the game was on again. This wasn’t one of the big ones, of course, just a cheap daytime come-on called Treadmill to Bucks. They accepted only chronic heart, liver, or lung patients, sometimes throwing in a crip for comic relief. Every minute the contestant could stay on the treadmill (keeping up a steady flow of chatter with the emcee), he won ten dollars. Every two minutes the emcee asked a Bonus Question in the contestant’s category (the current pal, a heart-murmur from Hackensack, was an American history buff) which was worth fifty dollars. If the contestant, dizzy, out of breath, heart doing fantastic rubber acrobatics in his chest, missed the question, fifty dollars was deducted from his winnings and the treadmill was speeded up. “We’ll get along. Ben. We will. Really. I . I’ll . .” “You’ll what?” He looked at her brutally. “Hustle? No more, Sheila. She’s got to have a real doctor. No more block midwife with dirty hands and whiskey breath. All the modern equipment. I’m going to see to it.” He crossed the room, eyes swiveling hypnotically to the Free-Vee bolted into one peeling wall above the sink. He took his cheap denim jacket off its hook and pulled it on with fretful gestures. “No! No, I won’t . won’t allow it. You’re not going to—” “Why not? At worst you can get a few oldbucks as the head of a fatherless house. One way or the other you’ll have to see her through this.” She had never really been a handsome woman, and in the years since her husband had not worked she had grown scrawny, but in this moment she looked beautiful .
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