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Posted: Thu Aug 05, 2004 3:35 am Post subject: The Stand |
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Just finished Dark Tower III - The Wastelands and I feel like taking a bit of a break from the Dark Tower series, but not from Stephen, I decided to go for The Stand
Haven't read it, read every other Stephen King work except for Stand and Dark Tower, series so I figure, now is the time to get through it, cheers. _________________ "...oh my god - there is a nerd stuck beneath my space bar.."
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Posted: Thu Aug 05, 2004 2:18 pm Post subject: |
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A lot of fans consider it King's finest work. I would certainly put it in the top three. Lots of joy - lots of tragedy. King takes no prisoners in this one.
Enjoy!!! _________________ "I am, in short, a man on the edge of everything." - Dark Tower II, The Drawing of the Three |
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Posted: Thu Aug 05, 2004 2:40 pm Post subject: |
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I believe you find that Larry Underwood is a great character...at least he is the most dynamic. Great changes....he is also the character your Gunslinger most identifes with in ANY King novel. _________________ "I use my gun whenever kindness fails"
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Posted: Thu Aug 05, 2004 3:21 pm Post subject: |
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Try to find the updated version which is longer.
Definitely one of his best books with some great characters - among them Nick Andros and Tom Cullen; m - o - o - n: that spells moon, yes sir! _________________ Every man is my superior, in that, I may learn from him. |
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Posted: Thu Aug 05, 2004 7:02 pm Post subject: |
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Nick Andros is probably my favorite character in The Stand. _________________ "I am, in short, a man on the edge of everything." - Dark Tower II, The Drawing of the Three |
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Posted: Thu Aug 05, 2004 7:49 pm Post subject: |
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M-O-O-N spells drainage easement _________________
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Tom, your post did a fly-by on me. Please explain to a fellow Trek fan who is apparently suffering from a glitch in his comprehension circuits today.  _________________ "I am, in short, a man on the edge of everything." - Dark Tower II, The Drawing of the Three |
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Posted: Thu Aug 05, 2004 8:58 pm Post subject: |
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Roland of Gilead wrote: | Tom, your post did a fly-by on me. Please explain to a fellow Trek fan who is apparently suffering from a glitch in his comprehension circuits today.  |
Since I didn't actually read the Stand but cheated by watching and then buying the television mini series, there may be a few differences in content between the two versions. The Stand mini series features a man who is mentally challenged (Tom Cullen I think) and says on more than one occasion "M-O-O-N. that spells *insert a word that is far more complex than moon and is spelled completely differently*" My wife and I sometimes joke about that when we are feeling a bit silly. "M-O-O-N that spells laundry detergent".
That is the source for my comment so if the book doesn't have a character like that just ignore me.
p.s. I'm in the Land Surveying business and since I often work on survey's that feature easements of one kind or another the term "drainage easement" is never far from my mind, or my eyes as it were, thus that polysyllabic phrase in the place of “moon”. _________________
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Posted: Thu Aug 05, 2004 9:18 pm Post subject: |
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Tom Cullen actually plays a large role in both the mini-series and the novel, and yes, in both versions the letters of the word moon, which is the only word he can spell, are used to spell all words.
It was drainage easement that threw me. I was looking for something about moon and drainage easement - perhaps the slang term "mooning" someone, and the images I was getting in my fevered imagination don't bear repeating.
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Posted: Thu Aug 05, 2004 9:22 pm Post subject: |
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Roland of Gilead wrote: | T
It was drainage easement that threw me. I was looking for something about moon and drainage easement - perhaps the slang term "mooning" someone, and the images I was getting in my fevered imagination don't bear repeating.
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I don't know how I have worked in this business for 17 years and it never occured to me about the similarities between the human digestive system and the word drainage easement. I'm STILL LAUGHING! I cant wait to tell dANdeLION about that tomorrow morning. Well done!!!!  _________________
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TOM C wrote: | Roland of Gilead wrote: | T
It was drainage easement that threw me. I was looking for something about moon and drainage easement - perhaps the slang term "mooning" someone, and the images I was getting in my fevered imagination don't bear repeating.
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I don't know how I have worked in this business for 17 years and it never occured to me about the similarities between the human digestive system and the word drainage easement. I'm STILL LAUGHING! I cant wait to tell dANdeLION about that tomorrow morning. Well done!!!!  |
A surveyor, eh? I am in the land/access management & bike/ped planning issues up in WI. Heh. _________________ "I use my gun whenever kindness fails"
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Posted: Tue May 16, 2006 11:43 pm Post subject: |
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So there I was, between spy novels, looking for something to read....I have a library in my house; a 12-foot section of wall in my office that is nothing but bookshelves, and I sat there.
And I pondered.
And I thought about what it was that I wanted to read.
And The Beast was staring me in the face.
I haven't read it since the Expanded Version came out in the early '90s
So I picked it up.....
Holy sh*t, I forgot just how good this bood is. I'm about 100 pages deep in it, and my Lord it's good.
Two words....Magnum Opus. Even moreso than the DT saga I think. _________________ "There is only one basic human right, the right to do as you damn well please. And with it comes the only basic human duty, the duty to take the consequences." - PJ O'Rourke
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Posted: Tue May 16, 2006 11:47 pm Post subject: |
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Cail wrote: | So there I was, between spy novels, looking for something to read....I have a library in my house; a 12-foot section of wall in my office that is nothing but bookshelves, and I sat there.
And I pondered.
And I thought about what it was that I wanted to read.
And The Beast was staring me in the face.
I haven't read it since the Expanded Version came out in the early '90s
So I picked it up.....
Holy sh*t, I forgot just how good this bood is. I'm about 100 pages deep in it, and my Lord it's good.
Two words....Magnum Opus. Even moreso than the DT saga I think. |
i absolutely agree. my favorite, no doubt about it.  _________________ you're more advanced than a cockroach,
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i've had this with actors before, on the set,
where they get upset about the [size of my]
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cause... i'm from Kentucky
and that's not what we brag about.
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with Salem's Lot my favorite. the Judge is my favorite character. and what happens, oh my. tears in my eyes while reading it. _________________ life's not a paragraph
And death i think is no parenthesis”
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Posted: Wed May 17, 2006 5:10 am Post subject: |
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hmmmmmm. my favorite Stand character? pft.
Larry "Baby Can You Dig Your Man" Underwood, of course.
 _________________ you're more advanced than a cockroach,
have you ever tried explaining yourself
to one of them?
~ alan bates, the mothman prophecies
i've had this with actors before, on the set,
where they get upset about the [size of my]
trailer, and i'm always like...take my trailer,
cause... i'm from Kentucky
and that's not what we brag about.
~ george clooney, inside the actor's studio
a straight edge for legends at
the fold - searching for our
lost cities of gold. burnt tar,
gravel pits. sixteen gears switch.
Haphazard Lucy strolls by.
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Posted: Wed May 17, 2006 7:42 am Post subject: |
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great song btw. are there complete lyrics? |
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Posted: Wed May 17, 2006 10:46 am Post subject: |
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I wondered why you were referencing The Stand n your sig LuciMay.
Definitley one of my favourite King novels, especially the unabridged edition.
Unlike some others, I've never been opposed to some strictly unnecessary verbiage.
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Posted: Wed May 17, 2006 11:45 am Post subject: |
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Nahh, I'm a Stu Redman man myself.
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Posted: Wed May 17, 2006 1:14 pm Post subject: |
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Me either.
I first read the book in the late '70s, so I picture everyone with late '70s hair and late '70s clothes. Larry Underwood in paticular was jarring in the miniseries. I'd pictured him as rail-thin with a white-man's afro and a scraggly beard.
I pictured everyone in their mid-late 30s too. _________________ "There is only one basic human right, the right to do as you damn well please. And with it comes the only basic human duty, the duty to take the consequences." - PJ O'Rourke
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