Status Updates From The Long Walk

I haven’t read a Stephen King book since high school. He sure does have a vibe. The inclusion of the game show quotes as chapter epigraphs is sure a mood. Also that there’s so little exposition on the world or the shape of this particular dystopia. It’s a very white-people 1980s setting without any world building holding up the Long Walk which kind of works. Like Shirley Jackson’s the Lottery.