it's playing out more like Enemies Foreign AND Domestic... on sale now.
Posted on 04/25/2009 5:37:01 PM PDT by Kartographer
Maybe a more timely novel for all to be readingisn't Ayn Rand's "Atlas Shrugged", but instead is Stephen King's "The Stand". Personally dispite King being a Obamabot I have always found this novel most prophetic and a great story of the strength of faith. Besides I think Obama much more resembles 'Randall Flagg'(AKA "the Dark Man," "the Hardcase," "the Tall Man," and "the Walkin’ Dude"), than anyone in Rand's novel, beside like Randell Obama is a all things to all people and a 'magic man' as well, I think they would get along great!
Follows are some of my favorite quotes from the book especially read the last one:
"No one can tell what goes on in between the person you were and the person you become. No one can chart the blue lonely section of hell. There are no maps of the change. You just...come out the other side."
"You just couldn't get a hold of the things you done and turn them right again. Such power might be given to the gods, but it was not given to men and women, and that was probably a good thing. Had it been otherwise, people would probably die of old age trying to rewrite their teens."
"A choice? There's always a choice. That's God's way, always will be. Your will is still Free. Do as you will. There's no set of leg-irons on you. But...this is what God wants of you."
"The wind had picked up again, it made strange hooting sound in some empty doorway, and farther away he thought he could hear bootheels pacing off the night, rundown bootheels somewhere in the foothills coming to him on the chilly draft of this early morning breeze. Dirty bootheels clocking their way into the grave of the West."
Stephen King writes pop fiction for the intellectually challenged.
Mr. King's early work was terrific. He always had a problem with endings, though. The "big picture" wasn't always there, but the small things were terrific. His short stories were great too (The Body, Shawshank Redemption, both made into movies, Apt Pupil and The Breathing Method were not and should never be).
His later stuff has been less good. Also he's gotten political. He was always a liberal, and didn't try too hard to hide it, but it wasn't in your face. Now it seems that all liberals do is get in your face.
The Stand was good. The Shining was very good (the book not the movie).
King sets up the evil people as those that want order; they want the trains to run on time. (His vision of conservatives)
And he sets up the good as being those who are laid back non-conformist. (His vision of liberals)
What King probably does not realize is that he has it exactly backwards. Conservatives are,although we appreciate order,the ones who appreciate the wholesale chaos of a free economy where everyone is free to go their own way in creating wealth.
It is the Left, the Liberals that want a regimented society that has every aspect of life ordered by a central authority. It is the Left that desires that a top down do as I say or be punished order to the universe.
Baby can you dig your maaaaan?
The Stand is one of my favorite books of all time. I was just thinking about it when I heard about all this “swine flu” stuff.
It is the Left, the Liberals that want a regimented society that has every aspect of life ordered by a central authority. It is the Left that desires that a top down do as I say or be punished order to the universe.
Well stated.
It was a complete failure.
I liked The Breathing Method.
I thought both The Talisman and Black House were good. I enjoyed the Gunslinger series though the very last part of the very last book had an ending that reminded me of “the bear went over the mountain...and what do you think he saw? He saw another mountain...” So he opted for iteration over revelation. But it was still good, I mean, how in the world would he have been able to get to the top of the tower and reveal the secret of the universe in such a way that was awesome and answered all questions, and left every reader satisfied, but without becoming the basis for another science fiction/fantasy religion like Scientology?
it's playing out more like Enemies Foreign AND Domestic... on sale now.
Thanks
I’ll need to get that book from the library.
Oh my goodness...
Its clear you never read the book, so I wonder why you bothered posting a comment. I never promoted King’s works as a whole I only stated that this one book had merit and depth.
Since you haven’t read it one would guess that you either like to be confrontational just for the sake of the confrontation or you wish to present yourself as a supior intelect above such rabble who would read something that you consider trash even if you yourself haven’t read it, what other answers are? What else would you have to gain from making a comment on a subject you are not wholely versed on?
King’s “The Stand” is nothing like his other works or at least the few I tried to read and it is deeply spiritual, live afirming, and also shows you never know when or who God may call upon to serve.
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