Hi! I am new and I have the weirdest question...

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Around 1985 or so, I read a hardcover book. It was called: THE LONG WALK by Richard Bachman. At the time, I did not know who Richard Bachman was, although I had read all of Stephen's books before I read it.
Well, the book was about a man who decided one day to take a long walk and he just kept walking and along the way people joined him and they had adventures together and helped to heal each other spiritually. It was very inspiring and I read it three times, the latest in 1991.
I lost the book and when I went to look for it again found another completely different book with the same title.
It is like the book I read never existed. But I know I read it; I remember it pretty well. It seem NewAgey and I was surprised when I found out that Stephen wrote it because it was so different than anything else he had done.
Does anyone know anything about this? I feel that I am dreaming, but I am not. I know I read the book, but it doesn't seem to have ever existed.
 
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The Long Walk by Richard Bachman was published in 1979 and has not been edited since. Here's the synopsis:

In the near future, where America has become a police state, one hundred boys are selected to enter an annual contest where the winner will be awarded whatever he wants for the rest of his life. The game is simple - maintain a steady walking pace of four miles per hour without stopping. Three warnings, and you're out - permanently.​

I don't think it would be classified as NewAgey. :smile2:
 
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Moderator said:
The Long Walk by Richard Bachman was published in 1979 and has not been edited since. Here's the synopsis:

In the near future, where America has become a police state, one hundred boys are selected to enter an annual contest where the winner will be awarded whatever he wants for the rest of his life. The game is simple - maintain a steady walking pace of four miles per hour without stopping. Three warnings, and you're out - permanently.​

I don't think it would be classified as NewAgey. :smile2:
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Thank you. But the plot to the one I read was completely different, but had the same title and author!
 
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That's what is making me crazy. I remember the title and the book clearly. There is no explanation I can think of. That's why I sent out this question because I am so puzzled. I did look up Richard Bach, but he never did a book with that title that I can remember or find out about. The book has stayed with me so strongly over the years, while others faded away.
 
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There is a group at Goodreads, another on-line gathering place for readers. There is a group there that might be able to help. I've looked in their data-base...there are a number of titles w/a variation...The Long Walk Home...a few others...nothing definitive, or nothing that meets the parameters of what you have posted. Did weather play any part in the story? Long shot...but I'd heard about a man who walked south to north, following the seasons...perhaps he was on the Appalachian Trail. Looks like we're coming up empty! Sorry!

The other crazy idea I had...is maybe someone cut and pasted the covers of one book over another. Yeah, who would do that?
Search results for "the long walk" (showing 1-20 of 257 books)
 
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Possible connection:
Sławomir Rawicz (1 September 1915 – 5 April 2004) was a Polish Army lieutenant who was imprisoned by the Russian NKVD after the German-Soviet invasion of Poland. In a ghost-written book called The Long Walk, he claimed that in 1941 he and six others had escaped from a Siberian Gulag camp and began a long journey south on foot (about 6,500 km (4,000 mi)). They endeavored through the Gobi Desert, Tibet, and the Himalayas to finally reach British India in the winter of 1942. In 2006 the BBC released a report based on former Soviet records, including statements written by Rawicz himself, showing that Rawicz had been released as part of the 1942 general amnesty of Poles in the USSR and subsequently transported across the Caspian Sea to a refugee camp in Iran and that his escape to India never occurred.[1]

In May 2009, Witold Gliński, a Polish WWII veteran living in the UK, came forward to claim that the story of Rawicz was true, but was actually an account of what happened to him, not Rawicz. Gliński's claims have been questioned by various sources.[2][3]

Rupert Mayne, a British intelligence officer in wartime India interviewed three emaciated men in Calcutta in 1942, who claimed to have escaped from Siberia. Mayne always believed their story was the same as that of The Long Walk - but telling the story years later, he could not remember their names.[4]
 
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