Maybe a more prophetic Novel for the times

[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."

[aruanan]

What you said.

[Kartographer]

I do not whole agree with you the Nazis kept the trains on time yet they were not conservatives. An the characters where not wholely conservative or liberal. Stu an east Texas Liberal...hmmm never heard of such an animal. Fran keeping here baby instead of aborting it, even though she knew the child's father would dump her. Nick Andros never ask for or took a hand out his whole life. Lloyd Henreid conservative theif robber and killer...hmm I don't think so. The Rat Man clearly a member of ACORN! ;-) And so on. As far as Randell Flagg yes he wanted the trains to run on time his TIME, Just like Obama what's the trains to run own his TIME1

[BruceysMom]

Don’t you think you ought to ping RandallFlagg if you’re going to speak ill of him? Plus all us Freeper chicks can “dig our man’ by once again clicking on his home page!

[kalee]

Chilling book. I read it one winter when for some reason I read a bunch of apocalyptic fiction. Lucifer’s Hammer, Alas Babylon, and A Canticle for Leibowitz among others.

[backhoe]

M-O-O-N...

I always thought "God's Tom"-- where they hypnotized him, and a calmer, higher personality emerged- was eerie, and accurate.

I've been there, myself...

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Just an old Keyboard Cowboy...gating back out, into Cyberspace and the Dreamtime

[Sawdring]

I just pulled it off the book shelf. The uncut version is nearly 1200 pages long. Had to blow the dust off the top. My maid took a vacation. ;)

[Kartographer]

I guess I should have asked Randall first, because now I have been reprimanded and had postings removed as he didn't like the quote from the book that I sighted.

[Petronski]

...The Body, Shawshank Redemption, both made into movies, Apt Pupil and The Breathing Method were not and should never be...

Apt Pupil was made into a film, and a crackling good one at that.

[RandallFlagg]

Hmm? Huh?
Sorry. Work’s been busy for me lately. Sorry.

[Allegra]

Cibola!

[Allegra]

Hey, The Stand was a great book and very un-Stephen King like.

Defimitely his best one, IMO.

His early stuff was fun. His later stuff was dull.

[Allegra]

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).

And The Long Walk. Quite chilling.

[RandallFlagg]

No. Coors.
I’d PEE Coors if I could...

[Allegra]

Its clear you never read the book, so I wonder why you bothered posting a comment.

Why, to point out his/her literary superiority over all of us "intellectually challenged" little people, silly! :)

[Joe 6-pack]

"I enjoyed the Gunslinger series..."

In a roundabout way. it inspired this artwork of mine...

[Kartographer]

And what exactly did I say?

[Kartographer]

Oh my Goodness??

[Kartographer]

Now you did it the moderatory will admonish you for sure!! Of course being the Anti-Christ you most likely don't give a . Seems they didn't care for the quote from the book I posted earlier.

[RandallFlagg]

To steal a line modified from a cartoon character..
“I’m not bad, I’m just written that way.”