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The Stand
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Come on baby, don't fear the reaper.
I've read that King wanted to write a The Lord of the Rings style epic, but based in the United States. I will say without haste, that he achieved that aim, and then some!
A true epic, but with King's trademark for making the characters feel as real as you or I, and plunging them into a situation that is at once both every-day and unimaginably horror filled.
The supernatural parts of the story add substance, but take a background role to 'real' terror. The pandemic feels true, and that's no surprise. I think it would feel that way, even if we weren't experiencing a similar event in Covid-19.
One thing extra that I loved was that Kojak, in his own mind, still thinks of himself as Big Steve, that cracked me up!
by
“No one can tell what goes on in between the person you were and the person you become. No one can chart that blue and lonely section of hell. There are no maps of the change. You just come out the other side.
Or you don't.�
Come on baby, don't fear the reaper.
I've read that King wanted to write a The Lord of the Rings style epic, but based in the United States. I will say without haste, that he achieved that aim, and then some!
A true epic, but with King's trademark for making the characters feel as real as you or I, and plunging them into a situation that is at once both every-day and unimaginably horror filled.
The supernatural parts of the story add substance, but take a background role to 'real' terror. The pandemic feels true, and that's no surprise. I think it would feel that way, even if we weren't experiencing a similar event in Covid-19.
“People who try hard to do the right thing always seem mad.�
One thing extra that I loved was that Kojak, in his own mind, still thinks of himself as Big Steve, that cracked me up!
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“No one can tell what goes on in between the person you were and the person you become. No one can chart that blue and lonely section of hell. There are no maps of the change. You just come out the other side.
Or you don't.”
― The Stand
Or you don't.”
― The Stand
“If we don't have each other, we go crazy with loneliness. When we do, we go crazy with togetherness.”
― The Stand
― The Stand
“Shall I tell you what sociology teaches us about the human race? I’ll give it to you in a nutshell. Show me a man or woman alone and I’ll show you a saint. Give me two and they’ll fall in love. Give me three and they’ll invent the charming thing we call “society�. Give me four and they’ll build a pyramid. Give me five and they’ll make one an outcast. Give me six and they’ll reinvent prejudice. Give me seven and in seven years they’ll reinvent warfare. Man may have been made in the image of God, but human society was made in the image of His opposite number, and is always trying to get back home.”
― The Stand
― The Stand
