From a Buick 8 vs The Long Walk: Which Should You Read?
Both live on shelves: Teenage boys, Horror, Thriller, Fiction
From a Buick 8
“Curt Wilcox's boy came around the barracks a lot the year after his father died, I mean a lot, but nobody ever told him get out the way or asked him what in hail he was doing there again.”
Una novela sobre una fascinación enfermiza y peligrosa. Una novela de verdadero terror. Pensilvania, 1979. Llega un extraño a una gasolinera para repostar. Conduce un Buick modelo 1954 pero en perfecto estado. El…
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The Long Walk
The Long Walk is a dystopian horror novel by American writer Stephen King, published in 1979, under the pseudonym Richard Bachman. It was collected in 1985 in the hardcover omnibus The Bachman Books, and has seen…
1 film adaptation
The verdict
- Readers rate The Long Walk highest: The Long Walk 4.0 · From a Buick 8 3.7.
- The Long Walk is the quickest read — about 6 hours vs 9 for From a Buick 8.
- The Long Walk has the widest readership — 307797 ratings behind its score.
How to choose
Scores by source
| From a Buick 8 | The Long Walk | |
|---|---|---|
| Goodreads | — | 4.0 (307797) |
| Hardcover | 3.3 (177) | 3.9 (859) |
| Google Books | 3.0 (19) | 3.5 (9) |
| Apple Books | 4.0 (199) | 4.0 (1439) |
Reception
| From a Buick 8 | The Long Walk | |
|---|---|---|
| Ratings | 199 | 307797 |
| Editions | 55 | 39 |
| Citations | — | 3 |
| Film adaptations | 1 | 1 |
| Wikipedia attention | 3179 | 142309 |
| Pages | 491 | 365 |