Posted on 12/04/2011 4:09:05 PM PST by buccaneer81
Some people just want a little something more than pumpkin pie for dessert at Thanksgiving.
Not guilty, your honor.
And now for a blast from the past:
Sounds a little soon - the first one is not that old.
The Stand is one of my favorite books. I thought the mini-series/movie was pretty good.
I agree, I got the feeling that he just wrote the 6th and 7th Dark Tower books so that he’d fulfill his promise to complete them. I wish they’d been left unfinished.
I used to be an avid reader of King, and still greatly enjoy and dust off his older stuff (pre 2000ish, maybe?) regularly.
“And then the car honked its owwwwn horrrrn...”
Since we’re talking about King, I had to throw in my favorite Futurama line.
Agreed. I was especially disappointed with the last one. Of the other five, I enjoyed Wizard and Glass the most.
It will be 18 years in May since the miniseries premiered on ABC.
It was very good almost all the way around. My only casting complaints were Molly Ringwald, Corin Nemec and, to a lesser degree, Rob Lowe. But Gary Sinise made up for all of them. He was born to play Stu Redman.
What belt?.....
Wasn’t this kid the pole vault champion for Central Texas?
The last work of his I read was “Under The Dome.” Not bad.
Probation AT MOST, leaning towards not guilty.
Here's the bad news. Ben Affleck will be directing it.
Where was she when I was 15???
Please tell us you're joking.
I must be an alcoholic, I noticed the Bud sign.
Me too, but that's just because we all have been as culturally exposed to that brand as we have the US flag and the Golden Arches.
I couldn’t get past Corin Nemec either. I mean I always believed that Parker Lewis Can’t Lose. And what was up with that “Don’t mess with my Disco” scene with Nadine?
Agreed. And Molly Ringwald...arf and barf. Franny was a strong young woman in the novel. Thankfully Gary Sinise was able to make up for the deficits shown by both she and Nemec.
Ironically enough, I’m on the last few pages of the Wizard and Glass as we speak. My wife and I decided a couple of weeks ago to re-read the series.
It probably is the best technically, but I really enjoy the first and second in the series. Shardok, the giant mechanical bear really resonated in my young mind when I first read it, and the weird echoes of our own World give it a really eerie vibe. And I’ll always love the opening line in the first book...
“The man in black fled across the desert, and the gunslinger followed.”
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A comment under the article says the boy was her nephew; her brother's son. A few generations ago teachers were expceted to be of good moral character and were fired if not.
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