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I couldn't put the book down until I finished it LOL. I bought it hot off the press way back when (78? 79?)
I turned the movie off within the first half hour though..thought it sucked. I tried to give it another chance but no go, it just rubs me the wrong way in comparison to the way the book got the story across. I think the end of the world scenario will more than likely mirror the opinion of Salem Kirban (sp?)...people killing each other over the last soy cake. |
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I thought the first 10 minutes were pretty terrifying, but Molly Ringwald ruined the show for me. I think she did a poor job. BTW...the book was great!
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Mary Shelley, author of Frankenstein, also wrote a novel entitled Tha Last Man in which a terrible plague decimated most of the human race. Has anyone read it? I haven't yet.
Shouldn't this thread be in the 'Books and Movies Discussion' forum, BTW? [ 08-25-2002, 09:12 PM: Message edited by: K T Ong ]
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the stand was one of the scariest stories i've read. i read it twice, and i swear every time you cough or sniffle it will give you the creeps. I recommend reading it during the winter if you never have
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Great book .. nice movie .. and yes this could happen in RL
The change of that happening though is very slimm ...
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I think The Stand is SK's best completed work to date. However, in it he is troubled by what I see as his biggest failure as a writer - he's not very good at closure. He writes a great 8-900 pages, then flobs it all, has no idea what to do, so trundles trash-can in for an anit-climax. He had the same problem with IT - which had terrible problems winding down a wonderfully set-up tale (an end which included a great World-Turtle, a Huge Spider shape, and the necessity of 12-year-olds to have sex w/ each other).
The TV mini-series movie you're talking about (Gary Sinese, right?) was a mediocre interpretation of the book - but did better than most SK movies. SK books should make much better movies than they do. For the best SK, I'll take The Dark Tower Series. If all goes well, it will never suffer from SK's "closure" problem, as it will never end. Other than this series, I haven't read hardly any SK since I was in 10th-11th grade. That said, I can't speak for Insomnia and other "newer" SK titles. However, there is no doubt that the Dark Tower series incorporates his "other worlds." ("There are other worlds than this" - who's freaked out by that statement?) SK has written before as to how he views many of his tales and interweaving holistic metaphors and characters together. There's a reason he uses the same names over and over (e.g. bad guys are always Flagg - see Eyes of the Dragon). |
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