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JC Maldini 04-29-2009 03:14 PM

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 !! :helpme

SifuE 04-29-2009 03:20 PM

Do you mean the Gubment..lol made Jew Flu.. to kill the Mexican's!!

kane 04-29-2009 03:21 PM

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.

MaDalton 04-29-2009 03:31 PM

wheres Trashcan Man when you need him

corvette 04-29-2009 03:46 PM

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Originally Posted by MaDalton (Post 15802151)
wheres Trashcan Man when you need him

ha, i think i read the book 5 times when i was younger, movie wasnt as good, imo

Darkland 04-29-2009 03:48 PM

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Originally Posted by corvette (Post 15802213)
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.

MaDalton 04-29-2009 03:51 PM

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Originally Posted by corvette (Post 15802213)
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.

_Richard_ 04-29-2009 03:55 PM

want a fun read? the white plague by frank herbert

selena 04-29-2009 04:48 PM

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Originally Posted by Darkland (Post 15802219)
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 :2 cents: 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.

WinstonTriplexcash 04-29-2009 05:11 PM

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.

CaptainHowdy 04-29-2009 05:12 PM

Good suggestion...

SilentKnight 04-29-2009 05:14 PM

Swine flu may turn out to be our very own I Am Legend.

EroticistFilms 04-29-2009 07:31 PM

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Originally Posted by Darkland (Post 15802219)
I had always hoped they would do that with his Dark Towers series with each season completing one book.

With Hugh Jackman as Roland!

Marcus Aurelius 04-29-2009 07:36 PM

Read it long ago and loved it. and yes, very topical to our times.

Danny B 04-29-2009 08:00 PM

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.


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Originally Posted by Darkland (Post 15802219)
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.

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Originally Posted by selena (Post 15802490)
My :2 cents: 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...

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Originally Posted by EroticistFilms (Post 15802904)
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.

KittyLix 04-29-2009 08:13 PM

I am reading it again now too i have read it first when i was 15 LOL

Profits of Doom 04-29-2009 08:19 PM

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...

mvee 04-29-2009 08:30 PM

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Originally Posted by Darkland (Post 15802219)
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.

uno 04-29-2009 08:32 PM

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Originally Posted by mvee (Post 15803039)
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.

mvee 04-29-2009 08:36 PM

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.

Rochard 04-29-2009 09:49 PM

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.

Iron Fist 04-29-2009 10:13 PM

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.

Jdoughs 04-29-2009 11:40 PM

M-O-O-N, that spells badass book.

Platinumpimp 04-29-2009 11:43 PM

The movie is boring though, 6 hours of shizzle.

Zebra 04-29-2009 11:51 PM

The white house needs to rename the Swine Flu as Captain Trips just for the hell of it.

selena 04-30-2009 06:20 AM

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Originally Posted by Profits of Doom (Post 15803002)
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.

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Originally Posted by uno (Post 15803043)
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.

selena 04-30-2009 06:23 AM

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Originally Posted by Danny B (Post 15802959)

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.

pornguy 04-30-2009 06:24 AM

Ha. I think I will go and look for that one again. Been YEARS since I read it.

Darkland 04-30-2009 06:31 AM

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.

brassmonkey 04-30-2009 07:29 AM

movie was crazy

Forest 04-30-2009 07:35 AM

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 :1orglaugh

one of my favorite books of all time

Phoenix 04-30-2009 07:39 AM

i liked the talisman as well...would be good as a kids type movie...maybe done in two parts

Joe BrainCash 04-30-2009 07:59 AM

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Originally Posted by Profits of Doom (Post 15803002)
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!:thumbsup

Forest 04-30-2009 08:03 AM

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Originally Posted by Profits of Doom (Post 15803002)
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

Tom_PM 04-30-2009 08:14 AM

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.

mvee 04-30-2009 08:52 AM

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Originally Posted by Darkland (Post 15803840)
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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