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Thread: The Stand - Let's Discuss! *SPOILERS*

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    Shh, don't tell Matt...he hates the tunnel.



    "People, especially children, aren't measured by their IQ. What's important about them is whether they're good or bad, and these children are bad." ~ Alan Bernard


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    I think the tunnel section is brilliantly written... freaky, freaky!
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    I can't wait to reread that one - the more you talk about it the more I think I'm moving it up on my list.



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    "You needn't die happy when your day comes, but you must die satisfied, for you have lived your life from beginning to end and ka is always served." ~ Roland Deschain

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    That tunnel sucked, I would have hated to really go through it

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    I think that's what makes it such a good thing... if it freaks you out enough to not want to do it... successful!

    I like following the flu... how this person walks by this person who gives it to their family who gives it to this guy and so on.
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    Tunnel!!

    **runs**

    Every time we drive through it, I tell Dora "can you imagine this thing dark, full of cars and bodies?"

    she gives me one of these...
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    The fact that that tunnel scares you just cracks me up. It's got to be one of the least scary things in the universe.



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    "You needn't die happy when your day comes, but you must die satisfied, for you have lived your life from beginning to end and ka is always served." ~ Roland Deschain

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    pfft--depends of if you were ever raped in one








    kidding--I was never raped in a tunnel.
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    Well, that was a real left-fielder right there.



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    Yeah, I had a customer and it was the quickest joke I could think of...

    should have kept thinking.
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    You are the King of Random Matt

    I'll have to reread this too. I only read it once.

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    I agree with O, that the flus progress was fun to follow.

    It's just crazy how fast that moved

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    I love how he took a second to talk about all the people that died even though they did not have the flu

    Woman dragging her dead, abusive husband to the basement and the door locks behind her.
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    Quote Originally Posted by Matt View Post
    I love how he took a second to talk about all the people that died even though they did not have the flu

    Woman dragging her dead, abusive husband to the basement and the door locks behind her.
    Yes, I enjoyed that as well... was that in both versions of the book?
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    I liked the reform of the death penalty.



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    I loved the Stand but have only read it once - its one of those epics that you need to read several times I think. Ill put it on my reread list
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    Quote Originally Posted by Matt View Post
    I love how he took a second to talk about all the people that died even though they did not have the flu

    Woman dragging her dead, abusive husband to the basement and the door locks behind her.

    This was one of my favorite parts of the book. When I read it, I was so wrapped up with the flu outbreak and all the people who died from it, that I totally forgot about the fact that now there were no more doctors to treat people who fell and broke a leg, no more police to protect you, no more firefighters to put out and save you from fires, all that. It was eye opening and really a section of teh book I enjoyed. I especially enjoyed the part about the paranoid woman with the gun.
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    I wish the super-flu would really break out in our world.
    There's one hole in every revolution, large or small. And it's one word long.. people. No matter how big the idea they all stand under, people are small and weak and cheap and frightened. It's people that kill every revolution.

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    Quote Originally Posted by OchrisO View Post
    I wish the super-flu would really break out in our world.
    It will Chris. You just gotta' keep on believing man.
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    Dont stop believing, hold on to the feeliiiiiiingggggg...........
    I am Daenerys Stormborn and I will take what is mine. With fire and blood.

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    Don't worry, Y. Pestis is a reslient little bacteria.


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    I have to say that I really enjoyed the novel. The mini-series, which I thought was very good, probably pissed me off the least as far as the adaptation of the book to film( Shawshank and Green Mile would also join this list). I really hope that if they do make the DT, the actor who played Randall Flagg in the series will get the opportunity to replay this role. I just finished re-reading "The Talisman", so I need another book to start. I think I will make "The Stand" that book.

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    I would agree with you on the choice of RF, Sai Joshua

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    Thanks for re-posting all that background information, RF.


    I've only read the uncut version of The Stand, never the original. I figured if the revised was the version that King really meant people to read, I wouldn't bother with the one that edited down again his wishes.
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    I was never a big fan of James Sheridan as Randall Flagg. His entire demeanor was a little too comical, especially in the early going. It's that he was bad but for DT I'm sure they could find someone better. I had some trouble thinking of him as this evil, powerful man at times.


    Besides On Writing, I hadn't read a book since I finished The Ruins in early summer. Never had the urge and On Writing was easy to read in bits while making number two. Just got my copy of The Stand and Misery back and I see them stacked. Misery, about 300 pages and The Stand at close to 1200. Well, I ended up choosing The Stand.

    I read The Stand for a book report in grade 7 in about a month. All the other kids had small little novels and I bring in this book you could kill someone with. My teacher didn't think I would be able to finish it in the time alotted. Did I prove her wrong lol. I've seen the mini-series on DVD numerous times since but haven't read the book in about ten yeas. Can't wait to get to into the real outbreak. It takes a hundred pages just to show some main characters. Oh well, not as bad as the Dark Tower when it takes 4 books and 2000 pages to get the real plot rolling.

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