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Relentless.
Stephen King’s 1982 novel, published under the pen name of his darker alter ego Richard Bachman, describes a feral dystopian landscape where over population, under employment, financial segregation of society along cultural and class lines and woefully deficient in fundamental healthcare has led to an almost Roman decadence of survival games and cheap entertainment for the pitiful masses. King’s malnourished and desperate Ben Richards is nothing like the character played by Arnold Sch ...more
Stephen King’s 1982 novel, published under the pen name of his darker alter ego Richard Bachman, describes a feral dystopian landscape where over population, under employment, financial segregation of society along cultural and class lines and woefully deficient in fundamental healthcare has led to an almost Roman decadence of survival games and cheap entertainment for the pitiful masses. King’s malnourished and desperate Ben Richards is nothing like the character played by Arnold Sch ...more
Like most of the Bachman books, this is gritty and violent. It takes you directly into a dark tunnel and there’s no way out.
It remains an excellent critique of growing corporate control of the masses, the winning of hearts and minds through easy and vicious entertainment, and the increasing pressure on the less privileged to give up and give in by normalizing oppression.
It remains an excellent critique of growing corporate control of the masses, the winning of hearts and minds through easy and vicious entertainment, and the increasing pressure on the less privileged to give up and give in by normalizing oppression.
3,5
It was good. I have the feeling that, after reading The Hunger Games, it is a bit difficult not to compare and to be surprised. It is always more impactful when the ones killing are children…
To be honest I was more entertained by the movie. I grew up watching the movie on TV. Of course, the similarities between them are hardly at 5%. ...more
It was good. I have the feeling that, after reading The Hunger Games, it is a bit difficult not to compare and to be surprised. It is always more impactful when the ones killing are children…
To be honest I was more entertained by the movie. I grew up watching the movie on TV. Of course, the similarities between them are hardly at 5%. ...more
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