Ben Richards
participates in a game show to save his
daughter's life; failure means death.
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Citizen-neglecting government. Truth of horrible
realism. Self-serving, spiteful nation. These
are a few of the themes that are portrayed in
Stephen King's novel The Running Man. This
action packed thriller is one of King's best
novels. There are 100 chapters in The Running
Man, and at only 300 pages, there are only three
pages in a chapter on average, giving this book
an excellent plot and lots of action. There are
many characters in the story, but the major
character is Ben Richards, who enters a contest
in the future in hopes of winning money to buy
medicine for his daughter who has an unknown
disease. The game is called 'The Running Man'
and the game is just as it sounds. The
contestants will be set loose onto the world
where he will try to survive his enemy - the
world. The individual who successfully kills
Richards receives ten thousand dollars from the
government who runs the series of life-taking
game shows including Treadmill to Bucks where
heart-attack and stroke prone contestants run
until they drop. Ben Richards must survive the
horde for one month or die. He lays his trust on
no one; doing so will get him killed. He must
also survive the hunters, a trained group of
people who's jobs are to hunt down and kill the
contestants. Richards will do anything,
incluiding killing others to survive, if not for
the money, then to spite the government. The
Running Man is a great book that any
thrill-seeker would enjoy. It's a short read,
only being about 300 pages, but a good one. --
Scott Gaus,
