Vampires Do Exist

by Steven King

Book by King, Steven

Genres: Horror

106 pages, Paperback

First published November 1, 2010

About the author

Librarian’s note: There is more than one author in the Goodreads database with this name.

Disambiguated authors:

(1) Steven King - Disambiguation needed (Current profile)
(2) Steven King - Blank
(3) Steven King - Baby books, BOMBOM
(4)Steven King - four spaces between Steven and King. Professor who writes on British/EU social history, especially of the poor and the welfare state.

Reviews

[CJ · Rating 5 out of 5]

Very interesting concept lol

[Brian · Rating 5 out of 5]

Me gusta la portada, pss y obvio tambien el libro.

[Stryker · Rating 5 out of 5]

The Long Walk is a book about a kid named Garrity, the book's exposition starts with him arriving at the starting point, his mom drops him off, and he waits along the side with other people. While waiting we meet more characters, such as Olsen, Pete, Baker,Abraham, and Stebbins. A person named the general, then the walk starts. In the long walk, 100 teenagers walk at a pace of 4 miles an hour. They get 3 tickets, if they lose all 3 tickets by falling below the walking limit, they get shot down then and there by people who follow them in trucks. Garrity must outlast everyone else and manage to survive. There are many things that happen during this, since it rains, people start getting sick. People form groups to walk with, and some are outcasted and walk alone. Towards the Falling action of the story, only Garrity and his friends are left, Abraham sits down and tells them not to look as he's shot down and gives up. There is only Pete and Garrity and Stebbins now. Pete decides to stop walking and tells Garrity to live on and win for him. Its now stebbins and garrity, stebbins the confesses that hes the general's son and did this in order to gain his affection, soon after walking a bit more, stebbins shots at Garrity telling him it's his fault, and collapsed on the ground, Garrity ran over and realized that he had won, and when he realizes, he gets up off the ground and continues running since he's lost his purpose. The story is a Character versus self since he tries to find why he walks, and even when he wins he doesn't know what to do.
I connected to this book because I really enjoyed the character base. They introduce a lot of characters that each take up multiple traits and personalities. My personal favorite was Scram, a tall lanky guy with a crew cut. He was said to be built like a bull. When he was introduced, that's when the main character started to lose hope since he had walked for 9 days straight before this. He seemed to be impossible to beat. The only reason he started doing bad was because he had gotten sick while walking, he had a fever for about a day and made it to around the top 20 still, he had been sick but still continued on, he had multiple friends around him trying to help him, and soon he knew it was his end. When he knew he couldn't go any further, he grabbed a friend and they both sat down and talked to each other until the guards came and gunned them down. This book really connects to everyone's personality since there are so many people to know. This book connects to me since I believe I have a lot of friends who have many different personalities, so I feel like I connect to the character scram in this book.
SOme things I really liked about this book was the tone. I believe the tone was perfect since it keeps calm since the speaker is dead on the inside. EVen when things happen that should shake him, he forgets about them soon after. He does a great job of keeping the tone, whether there's gun shots, or people yelling at him. I also love all the characters who add depth and make people seem unique. This helps the story since it doesn't always seem centered around the main character. I also love the gruesomeness in the story, this shows the real depiction of it being reality for them. When they lose, carbines melt their body, and when they get warnings, people start hovering over them to kill them, a real depiction of horror. Something I don't like is the settings. I feel like the surroundings were really boring at the start, they were simply in the countryside, and that's all. Once the fans started to pile up it got better. But before then it seemed to be boring and like nobody seemed to care about them. I also didn't like how the general character was, he was the perfect human and seemed to rule them all. Yet he had not seen accomplishments and did nothing. He was simply a name to hear and fear instead of a symbol.

[Margaret · Rating 1 out of 5]

This is the most poorly written book I think I’ve ever read. The characters are all creepy but not in the scary way. It’s full of mis-spelling and grammatical atrocities. I got duped into thinking it’s one of the REAL Steven Kings novellas I had somehow missed. Man o man was I ever wrong.
I’m almost fond of it because of how laughable and hilariously awful this so-called “book” is.

[Rimege · Rating 5 out of 5]

amazing vampire book!

[Ashley · Rating 1 out of 5]

I don’t know what ghost writer completed this for him, but wow is it awful.