[mylife]

Captain Tripps is back for the Covid pandemic.

[Mr. K]

The stand was the last book of King’s that I could read.

“IT” was horrible- and I actually tossed it in the trash before I finished it. (And I had sprung for the hardcover)

[Mr. K]

Let me guess- they were all transgender?

[mylife]

[HighSierra5]

I’m sorry that I ever read Kings trash. I can’t stand that cross eyed twit.

[CodeToad]

King was never interesting. He relied on weak conclusions and endings. It was all suspense and no action.

[mylife]

There were a lot of reasons to look forward to the sprawling new adaptation of The Stand on CBS All Access when it launched last year, from its all-star cast to the possibility that it would offer hope in a dark time with its tale of pandemic survivors banding together to vanquish evil. For longtime Stephen King fans, though, the most tantalizing thing about the miniseries was a new contribution from King himself: A much-hyped “coda” scene that would offer some new sense of resolution to the epic tale of light versus darkness at the end of the world. Now the series finale, and King’s new ending, has arrived, and with it comes a poignant answer to one of the biggest lingering question in the author’s massive body of work.

[LukeL]

So King used a deus ex machina two times in a book because he had written himself into a corner and somehow he is a great author?

[Da Coyote]

Have not read one of the high school teacher’s screeds.
Do not give a shi...er...Obama about him.
Meh.

[billorites]

Watch Stephen King handle writer's block Here.

[mylife]

I found the original mini series to be excellent, It will be hard to top.

[PTBAA]

How original, a disaster to obliterate all the loose ends you created by poor plot conception and writing.

[rktman]

LOL! Yup. Except in this case the survival rate is over 99% instead of the fatality rate. Sadly the ‘x-spurts’ are treating the scenario like “the Stand”. I can’t stomach the author but the book is good. I’ve re-read it a couple of times. And we recently got the original dvd with Gary Sinise as the lead character. Tried to watch the ‘see B S” version but couldn’t get into it.

[x]

The question must be “Why doesn’t he just go away already?”

[Magnatron]

I really wish King would have stayed out of politics. He was one of the the reasons I took up writing and I loved reading his earlier books.

Now I wouldn’t pick one up unless I ran out of toilet paper...

[Larry Lucido]

JERRY: You know, this is like that Twilight Zone Stephen King where the guy wakes up, and he's the same - but everyone else is different!

KRAMER: Which one?

JERRY: They were all like that!

[zeugma]

Dean Koonz is a better writer. I heard a long interview with him on Art Bell's show way back when. Dean never does interviews, and was originally scheduled for about an hour. He was enjoying it so much that he went the entire 4 hour show. It was awesome. Art was a better interviewer than he often gets credit for.