[Misterioso]

Stephen King and Ayn Rand in the same sentence? Are you serious??

[LiberConservative]

Stephen King writes pop fiction for the intellectually challenged.

[SuziQ]

I haven't read the book, "The Stand", but we watched the TV mini-series several years ago. SirKit and I were astounded, and quite pleased, when it came to the scene with the three guys in jail, and they began praying OUT LOUD!

[Pontiac]

The Stand was in a way a political book. The premise is that good and evil take up sides for the final battle after a world wide pandemic kills off most of the human populace.

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.

[grandpa jones]

Baby can you dig your maaaaan?

[USMCWife6869]

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.

[Chode]

it's playing out more like Enemies Foreign AND Domestic... on sale now.

[Ted Grant]

Oh my goodness...

[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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