The running man bachman
The middle class seems to be a very slim group in the middle. There is a huge gap between the rich and the poor. The world King/Bachman creates for Richard to exists in is a very segregated country. The listener roots for Richards from the beginning, realizing how he is being manipulated by the system. There is an immediate connection with the man character Richards. Now in my fifties and a parent, the book has an overwhelming sense the desperation of a man without hope. Then, when I was in my twenties, it seemed to be a very bleak book. I remember reading it shortly after it was released and again a few years later when it was revealed that Bachman was King. The Running Man was first published in 1982 under Stephen King’s pseudonym Richard Bachman.
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The Hunger Games series popped into my mind often