Stephen King's "The Stand" Predictive Programming For 9/15

M O O N - that spells moon

:ohlook:

Blood Moon, that is.

Oh, by the way - there's a partial solar eclipse at 4:40am UTC.

Yes, it is this thread again. How very astute of you.

He was on Colbert last night

Stephen King? Or Rob Lowe?

Stephen King

Did you read the book ?

Read the book more than once, same with the miniseries I used to own on vhs.

all things follow the beam.

The thought crossed my mind when I read that book.. Certainly one of his longer stories, especially the extended one..

It has plenty of reference to the whole doomsday scenario we've all become so familiar with..

Predictive programming..

Desensitization..

The boy who cried wolf..

come on - back in the eighties when people knew how to read we thought aids was Captain Tripps

The whole entire story of 'The Stand' is but a miniscule part of The Dark Tower saga.

There are other worlds than these.

Last Edited by Dace on 09/13/2015 01:41 AM

Predictive programming or infinite monkey theorem .


My vote is for the former rather than the latter.

my vote is for trashcan man - trashman where u going ur eyes a feet apart

Randall Flagg
the walking dude
captin tripps

Laws yes...the rats are in the corn!

also Maerlyn
Walter
The Man in Black


The man in black fled across the desert and the gunslinger followed......

all one and the same...loyal servant to the Crimson King.

Do ya kennit?

king's work never impressed me

thought he borrowed and changed a lot of stuff and presented it as his own.

yeah, but I have a hunch he had "permission"

His old stuff can sometimes be tedious as fuck. He'd wander off during 'IT' for a hundred pages or so a couple of times before getting back to the story.

Started getting better (or better editing) around 'Misery'.

His newest books are smooth, fast reads and he doesn't stray from the plot as much.

Looking forward to the third book of the Mercedes trilogy. 'The Suicide Prince', but he has another short story collection coming out first.

Creepiest one of late is 'Revival'...It's kind of 'meh' in some parts but the ending is fucked in the head.

and the end is only the beginning of the end, is only the.....

I'm looking forward to seeing how "Cell" turns out. It should be released some time next year... [link to www.imdb.com]

OMG refugees and smart phones!

Its my favourite book of all time, closely followed by "The Taking" - Dean Koontz.

He was one of the most original authors ever. You are full of it. Read most of his books. Twice. Well, the Dark Towers era he did lose me completely. But there was a shitload of good stuff before that.

The Stand being a prime example.

I know, right?..LOL

That pissed me off and felt like a cop-out way to end it.

He needs to go back and write an alternate version as Richard Bachman and give us a damn Roland/Flagg finale confrontation instead of killing off his infamous antagonist with a damn 'were-spider' FFS!.

Then, throughout LOTS of his other books besides the DT, we're led to believe that the Crimson King is the all-time badass of the badasses, puppeteer to even the entity that is Randall Flagg...and what do we get?.......some batshit looney fucker who constantly screams 'WHEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEE" and throws 'golden snitches' from Harry Potter that he bought from the undertaker from 'Phantasm'?

My Top 10 faves in order...


Cell

Insomnia

Needful Things

Revival

1408

Misery

Sometimes They Come Back

The Mist

The Running Man

Pet Semetary