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  • JC Maldini
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    Stephen King Book "The Stand"

    I read the book "The Stand" about 15 years ago and it really made you look when someone coughed or sneezed. It made you very aware of the space / air you share with people around you. Great great book.

    If you read it now...I would have to imagine it would totally freak someone out with everything that is going on !!
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        • kane
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          • Aug 2001
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          #3
          I just finished reading the unabridged version of it about a month ago. It is freaky to read it then see what is happening right now.

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            • MaDalton
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                • corvette
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                  #5
                  Originally posted by MaDalton
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                  ha, i think i read the book 5 times when i was younger, movie wasnt as good, imo
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                    • Darkland
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                      #6
                      Originally posted by corvette
                      ha, i think i read the book 5 times when i was younger, movie wasnt as good, imo
                      They ruined it by making it for TV. It would have been much better as an HBO series. I had always hoped they would do that with his Dark Towers series with each season completeing one book.


                      "The towers are gone now, reduced to bloody rubble, along with all hopes for Peace in Our Time, in the United States or any other country. Make no mistake about it: We are At War now -- with somebody -- and we will stay At War with that mysterious Enemy for the rest of our lives." H.S.T. 09/12/01

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                        • MaDalton
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                          #7
                          Originally posted by corvette
                          ha, i think i read the book 5 times when i was younger, movie wasnt as good, imo
                          i actually liked both, but of course it's extremely difficult to put a 1000 pages book into a movie. and since especially in Stephen Kings books most of the actual plot happens in the head of the main actor, they are very hard to transform into movies. as you can see in the many poor results.
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                            • _Richard_
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                              #8
                              want a fun read? the white plague by frank herbert

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                                • selena
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                                  #9
                                  Originally posted by Darkland
                                  They ruined it by making it for TV. It would have been much better as an HBO series. I had always hoped they would do that with his Dark Towers series with each season completeing one book.
                                  My is that they should forever leave Roland of Gilead in book form. I loved that series so much, and would hate to see it ruined.
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                                    • WinstonTriplexcash
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                                      #10
                                      Whose that sweet black woman who lived in out in the corn fields again? I swear I dreamt that dream afew years after I read the book and its one of the most haunting dreams I ever had.

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                                        • CaptainHowdy
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                                          Good suggestion...

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                                            • SilentKnight
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                                                • EroticistFilms
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                                                  #13
                                                  Originally posted by Darkland
                                                  I had always hoped they would do that with his Dark Towers series with each season completing one book.
                                                  With Hugh Jackman as Roland!

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                                                    • Marcus Aurelius
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                                                      #14
                                                      Read it long ago and loved it. and yes, very topical to our times.

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                                                        • Danny B
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                                                          • Jan 2007
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                                                          #15
                                                          The Stand, damn that's a while ago. Epic book though and yes i agree man.
                                                          Thinking about that book and what we might be up against doesn't help you sleep at night.


                                                          Originally posted by Darkland
                                                          They ruined it by making it for TV. It would have been much better as an HBO series. I had always hoped they would do that with his Dark Towers series with each season completeing one book.
                                                          I'd say make it 3 cinema movies. LOTR style. Big ass budget.
                                                          It's one of my alltime favourite series.

                                                          Originally posted by selena
                                                          My is that they should forever leave Roland of Gilead in book form. I loved that series so much, and would hate to see it ruined.
                                                          Just a matter of finding the right people and the right budget.
                                                          making it a TV series will deffinately not do it justice. A big budget cinema series though...

                                                          Originally posted by EroticistFilms
                                                          With Hugh Jackman as Roland!
                                                          I always imagined Roland as Clint fuckin Eastwood. Probably because i was still young when I read the first couple of books. To me Roland = Clint.

                                                          If they go make a movie NOW though, Jackman is an excellent choice.
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                                                            • KittyLix
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                                                              #16
                                                              I am reading it again now too i have read it first when i was 15 LOL

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                                                                • Profits of Doom
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                                                                  Funny you mention Stephen King, as I am an avid reader but up until recently I have never read one of his books. I've always been a nonfiction guy, and even when I did read fiction books I always preferred Clive Barker.

                                                                  Then a week or so ago I was reading a horror website and I saw that they were making an actual cinematic release movie out of "It', and the director was saying how he was going to be true to the story with all the sex and violence that the TV miniseries couldn't show. When I read a synopsis of the story I got this ridiculous urge to pick up the book, so I ran out to the bookstore and bought it.

                                                                  I'm about 500 pages in and I fucking LOVE this book, and now I feel like an idiot for passing over Stephen King's books all of these years. My ex used to rave about the Dark Towers books but for some reason I never even considered them. I will probably pick the first one up next...
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                                                                    • mvee
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                                                                      #18
                                                                      Originally posted by Darkland
                                                                      They ruined it by making it for TV. It would have been much better as an HBO series. I had always hoped they would do that with his Dark Towers series with each season completeing one book.
                                                                      I think Stephen King is taking the one story from DT which he converted into a graphic novel and is either turning into a movie or HBO mini series. But yeah both versions of The Stand sucked. That loser who played Flag really was miscast.

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                                                                        • uno
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                                                                          #19
                                                                          Originally posted by mvee
                                                                          I think Stephen King is taking the one story from DT which he converted into a graphic novel and is either turning into a movie or HBO mini series. But yeah both versions of The Stand sucked. That loser who played Flag really was miscast.
                                                                          Both versions being TV and book?

                                                                          As a side note one of my favorite Stephen King books is Insomnia.
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                                                                            • mvee
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                                                                              #20
                                                                              there was two versions of the mini series. They went back and gave it the Directors cut or something stupid. But ya know garbage in garbage out. I liked Insomnia.The kid turns up in the last book of Dark Tower Series.

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                                                                                • Rochard
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                                                                                  #21
                                                                                  I've often had dreams along the lines of "The Stand" where I'm one of a few left trying to survive in a world where no one else exists.
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                                                                                    • Iron Fist
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                                                                                      #22
                                                                                      Love the Stand... one of the only books i've ever read in my entire life that I actually stayed up almost all night reading because it was so damn interesting...

                                                                                      Huge fan.
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                                                                                        • Jdoughs
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                                                                                          M-O-O-N, that spells badass book.
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                                                                                              The movie is boring though, 6 hours of shizzle.
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                                                                                                    • selena
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                                                                                                      #26
                                                                                                      Originally posted by Profits of Doom
                                                                                                      My ex used to rave about the Dark Towers books but for some reason I never even considered them. I will probably pick the first one up next...
                                                                                                      Based on coversations we've had, I think you'd really enjoy the DT series. I got the manchild to read them. At first, he was like "WTF is so special about this, mom?"

                                                                                                      And then he got hooked.

                                                                                                      Originally posted by uno
                                                                                                      As a side note one of my favorite Stephen King books is Insomnia.
                                                                                                      Insomnia is definetly up there in my all-time-favorites. Both in entertainment value, and the underlying themes of Random and Purpose.
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                                                                                                        • selena
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                                                                                                          #27
                                                                                                          Originally posted by Danny B

                                                                                                          Just a matter of finding the right people and the right budget.
                                                                                                          making it a TV series will deffinately not do it justice. A big budget cinema series though...
                                                                                                          I just don't see it, but that is me. I think some books are so phenomenal that they should just stay books.

                                                                                                          A non-King book that I feel that way about is Atlas Shrugged. I've heard rumours of that being turned into a movie with Angelina Jolie as Dagny Taggerty. That in and of itself is enough to ruin it for me.

                                                                                                          As an aside, I do agree with you that Roland has always been Clint Eastwood-ish in my mind's eye.
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                                                                                                            • pornguy
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                                                                                                              Ha. I think I will go and look for that one again. Been YEARS since I read it.
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                                                                                                                • Darkland
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                                                                                                                  The thing that I like about his writing is that while all of his stories are different they carry that same underlying theme of that other dimension with tons of references to the crimson king across almost all of his novels. Randall Flagg (aka The Crimson King) appears in quite a few of them directly and while his name may change his initials are always R.F.


                                                                                                                  "The towers are gone now, reduced to bloody rubble, along with all hopes for Peace in Our Time, in the United States or any other country. Make no mistake about it: We are At War now -- with somebody -- and we will stay At War with that mysterious Enemy for the rest of our lives." H.S.T. 09/12/01

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                                                                                                                    • brassmonkey
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                                                                                                                      movie was crazy
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                                                                                                                        • Forest
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                                                                                                                          i read the book 20 years ago while working down on Water street in NYC

                                                                                                                          I took the subway every morning to work and everytime someone sneezed or coughed i would hold my breath for 30 seconds

                                                                                                                          one of my favorite books of all time

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                                                                                                                            • Phoenix
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                                                                                                                              i liked the talisman as well...would be good as a kids type movie...maybe done in two parts
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                                                                                                                                • Joe BrainCash
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                                                                                                                                  Originally posted by Profits of Doom
                                                                                                                                  Funny you mention Stephen King, as I am an avid reader but up until recently I have never read one of his books. I've always been a nonfiction guy, and even when I did read fiction books I always preferred Clive Barker.

                                                                                                                                  Then a week or so ago I was reading a horror website and I saw that they were making an actual cinematic release movie out of "It', and the director was saying how he was going to be true to the story with all the sex and violence that the TV miniseries couldn't show. When I read a synopsis of the story I got this ridiculous urge to pick up the book, so I ran out to the bookstore and bought it.

                                                                                                                                  I'm about 500 pages in and I fucking LOVE this book, and now I feel like an idiot for passing over Stephen King's books all of these years. My ex used to rave about the Dark Towers books but for some reason I never even considered them. I will probably pick the first one up next...
                                                                                                                                  It's a good book but far from being his best!
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                                                                                                                                    • Forest
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                                                                                                                                      Originally posted by Profits of Doom
                                                                                                                                      Funny you mention Stephen King, as I am an avid reader but up until recently I have never read one of his books. I've always been a nonfiction guy, and even when I did read fiction books I always preferred Clive Barker.

                                                                                                                                      Then a week or so ago I was reading a horror website and I saw that they were making an actual cinematic release movie out of "It', and the director was saying how he was going to be true to the story with all the sex and violence that the TV miniseries couldn't show. When I read a synopsis of the story I got this ridiculous urge to pick up the book, so I ran out to the bookstore and bought it.

                                                                                                                                      I'm about 500 pages in and I fucking LOVE this book, and now I feel like an idiot for passing over Stephen King's books all of these years. My ex used to rave about the Dark Towers books but for some reason I never even considered them. I will probably pick the first one up next...
                                                                                                                                      IT was a fucking awesome book. Cant wait for the second movie to come out. I enjoyed the tv mini series

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                                                                                                                                        • Tom_PM
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                                                                                                                                          I'm one of those who have, for some reason, never read any of his books. I remember the tv mini series about it though.
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                                                                                                                                            • mvee
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                                                                                                                                              #36
                                                                                                                                              Originally posted by Darkland
                                                                                                                                              The thing that I like about his writing is that while all of his stories are different they carry that same underlying theme of that other dimension with tons of references to the crimson king across almost all of his novels. Randall Flagg (aka The Crimson King) appears in quite a few of them directly and while his name may change his initials are always R.F.
                                                                                                                                              Flagg wasn't actually the Crimson King. He was a wizard who was in alliance with the Crimson King. He is one of my favorite villains of all time though.

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