The Running Man, by Stephen King

The Running Man, by Stephen King  is a Science Fiction book about Benjamin Richards, a poor man that enter a game show called the Running Man for his family in the year 2025. He needs to survive for 30 days to get 1 billion new dollars, but hunters will attempt to kill him. Not just the hunters are after him he will be attack by normal civilian  that would get 1000 new dollars for killing him. He will people who will kill him and help him.Will he survive the 30 days or get kill by the hunters?

Benjamin Richards is a difficult character to understand. He cares about his family but he would kill other people if they try killing him. He is a very intelligent character that is able out smart the hunters but has good social skill that helps him change people's opinion of him. He is portrayed as a bad person on the show but the people who meet him change their opinion and think that the program is the one at fault. This book is 317 pages.The start is slow but by page 50 it starts picking up and the reader would get hook on and not stop reading. Stephen King write in great detail about the character and the setting. It is easy to picture. Even the simplest things like him sleeping, he made it more interesting and make the writing stick in the readers mind. The book was interesting to read about a game show that has a goal to kill people that made the viewers play in it.  This plot is unique. It gets more intense every page that goes by.

I would recommend this book who enjoy science fiction or someone who like reading a well written book. The reader should be a teenager or older. I enjoyed this book and I do not usually like science fiction but this book made me like it. I could never give this book less than 5 out of 5 stars.
Reviewed by Gavin Hui
Finished July 18, 2011