Posted on 11/28/2024 10:35:52 AM PST by DallasBiff
After a deadly plague kills most of the world's population, the remaining survivors split into two groups - one led by a benevolent elder and the other by a malevolent being - to face each other in a final battle between good and evil. (https://www.imdb.com/title/tt0108941/)
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The Firestarter is the only S. King I cared to read completey.
“Yep, his public pronouncements show him to be a liberal moron, and yet a lot of his books have some traditional conservative themes”
Mostly earlier books. He got real unhinged after getting hit by that car.
My contention was:
“In his books there are very few in those two groups who are normal people.”
Mother Abigail is not normal. She’s on the opposite end of the spectrum of his usual religious people, but still well outside normal.
RE: time travel....
I’m a time travel nonfiction and fiction fanatic.
Hesitated to start such a long book as 11/22/63 but will have to based on your advice.
My favorites include The Man Who Folded Himself by David Gerrold and the poignant short story “The Letter” by Charles Finney. Man finds a way to have loving feelings shared with a woman long gone in the past. (He also wrote The Body Snatchers)
Agree. His more recent book are unreadable.
Only read Cujo and On Writing.
Never saw any of the movies until the past 3-4 months and I’m catching up with the rest of the world. Liked The Dead Zone (who couldn’t like Christopher Walken?) and have been working through others that everyone but me knows all about like Carrie and Christine.
His one often reprinted article in On Writing about his high school writing class teacher had the teacher tell him after King said “Now I get it” (teacher, leaning his chair backward) “Ha, if that’s really true then you will someday make your living at writing and never have to take a regular job again in your life.”
I’ve read “The Letter.” Loved it. I’ll have to read “The Man Who Folded Himself.” Of course, I loved “The Time Machine” and read that a few times in my teens and early adult years. I also liked “The Time Traveler’s Wife.”
“11/22/1963” is definitely engaging. I enjoyed it.
You don’t have to double down on your position. LOL. Just move on.
A manchild utterly irredeemable -- he would put every single person in this thread in the kampfs if he could.
Thanks for the heads up.
I’ve never gone wrong yet on FReeper tips on books and films.
Yep, his public pronouncements show him to be a liberal moron, and yet a lot of his books have some traditional conservative themes, good vs. evil, rugged individualism, big government corruption, etc.
He peaked at Salem’s Lot and The Shining. I was already bored of his work when he was smearing pro-life Christians as ignorant, inbred and violent.
I’m surprised he still has readers after his bizarre “Child Orgy” scene in “IT.”
I was curious about the latest version but I couldn’t watch it as Whoopie Goldberg was in it.
Don’t waste your time. It is complete and utter garbage.
I would never watch or read anything this possessed man does. He has a direct connection to Satan himself.
Just wanna ride???
BKMRK.
Thanks!
“You don’t have to double down on your position. LOL. Just move on.”
I will move on only after I declare total and uncontested victory! Uh, what was the subject again?
The one positive portrayal of a Christian I saw from King was Mother Abigail.
“The one positive portrayal of a Christian I saw from King was Mother Abigail.”
There’s been a pretty good bit of discussion on the thread about that between a couple of Freepers and me. I has kind of burned itself out at this point.
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