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3 unusual facts about The Long Walk


The Hunger Games trilogy

Criticism has come from the reality TV "death game" theme, which is also present in Battle Royale, Das Millionenspiel, The Running Man, and The Long Walk.

The Long Walk

Stebbins, however, corrects him: he believes himself to be more of a White Rabbit type.

It was collected in 1985 in the hardcover omnibus The Bachman Books, and has seen several reprints since, as both paperback and hardback.


Judge Kraken

Immediately following Kraken's assessment, Dredd announced his resignation from the Justice Department, and took 'the long walk' into the Cursed Earth desert outside the city.

Judge McGruder

She resigned after four years in office following the Seven Samurai incident, blaming herself for a massacre she thought she could have prevented (although most of her colleagues were more forgiving and begged her to stay), and took the Long Walk into the Cursed Earth.


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Orton, Peterborough

There is still a village green and close by is a half-mile long plantation of giant redwood wellingtonia trees known as the 'Long Walk'.

Spanish Arch

In the 18th century the Eyre family of Eyrecourt, County Galway, created an extension of the quays called The Long Walk and created the arches to allow access from the town to the new quays.