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

[KingAHolic]

This thread has given me a headache....

 

[Kurben]

Richard Bachman only wrote one story called The Long Walk. It is the story synopsis described by Mrs Mod. The plotline you describe is not written by Bachman. Since it has gone so long time isn't the most probable thing that you have mixed up the two books. It can easily happen. I know it has to me. Our memories are strange sometimes and not always trustworthy.

 

[M&P15]

Could this be your book?

The Walk by Richard Paul Evans

What would you do if you lost everything—your job, your home, and the love of your life—all at the same time? When it happens to Seattle ad executive Alan Christoffersen, he’s tempted by his darkest thoughts. Instead, he decides to take a walk. But not any ordinary walk. Taking with him only the barest of essentials, Alan leaves behind all that he’s known and heads for the farthest point on his map: Key West, Florida. The people he encounters along the way, and the lessons they share with him, will save his life—and inspire yours.

A life-changing journey, both physical and spiritual, The Walk is the first of an unforgettable bestselling series of books about one man’s search for hope.

 

[blunthead]

Welcome to the SKMB! Keep posting!

There was a lot of good acid around in 1985.

(Apparently.)

Welcome to the SKMB! Keep posting!

 

[blunthead]

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.

Thank you. But the plot to the one I read was completely different, but had the same title and author!

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.

This is where something that you're remembering is inaccurate. You apparently read one book with a similar title, then at some future point held in your hands the Bachman book, believing it was the same story, or you held the Bachman then later found a copy of the other book and read it thinking it was the same book you'd earlier noticed. Neither Richard Bachman nor Stephen King ever wrote a book titled The Long Walk.

Could this be your book?

The Walk by Richard Paul Evans

What would you do if you lost everything—your job, your home, and the love of your life—all at the same time? When it happens to Seattle ad executive Alan Christoffersen, he’s tempted by his darkest thoughts. Instead, he decides to take a walk. But not any ordinary walk. Taking with him only the barest of essentials, Alan leaves behind all that he’s known and heads for the farthest point on his map: Key West, Florida. The people he encounters along the way, and the lessons they share with him, will save his life—and inspire yours.

A life-changing journey, both physical and spiritual, The Walk is the first of an unforgettable bestselling series of books about one man’s search for hope.

 

[M&P15]

Neither Richard Bachman nor Stephen King ever wrote a book titled The Long Walk.

Actually he did, but it was the dystopian story described earlier. If the OP had mistaken it for the one I described, The Walk also written by someone named Richard, that would make sense.

 

[GNTLGNT]

Actually he did, but it was the dystopian story described earlier. If the OP had mistaken it for the one I described, The Walk also written by someone named Richard, that would make sense.

...Frank is just being Frank...contrary to the core...or hard core canary err summpin'....

 

[blunthead]

Actually he did, but it was the dystopian story described earlier. If the OP had mistaken it for the one I described, The Walk also written by someone named Richard, that would make sense.

I effed up again. Of course sK wrote The Long Walk. It just wasn't the story you read.