"The Stand", Best I've ever read.

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Originally Posted by Skweeky1

Personally, I think Stephen King's best book is the Langoliers. Never bothered to watch the mini-series. i'm always scared it will change my image of the whole thing.

Did anyone else watch it though?

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The film is shockingly bad. Avoid.

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Originally Posted by Skweeky1

I was reading The Stand when that whole thing about the chicken flu came into the news. Was thouroughly sh*tt*ng myself.

Thought it was alright, but must agree with most of the people here that the second half isn't nearly as good as the first half.

Personally, I think Stephen King's best book is the Langoliers. Never bothered to watch the mini-series. i'm always scared it will change my image of the whole thing.

Did anyone else watch it though?

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Total shit!!

That and The Tommyknockers.

The Stand was one of my fav. books by Stephen King but kinnda leaned towards Dean R. Kootz after the Dark Tower shit .Kings short stories are the best tho like Night Shift .

If you liked the Stand you may enjoy The Talisman ,King and Peter Straub {Ghost Story) wrote it together .

http://www.chapters.indigo.ca/item.a...n=books&zxac=1

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Originally Posted by MagicNakor

I've often wondered if I'm the only person who absolutely cannot stand any of King's work. I can't think of any book of his that I've remotely enjoyed, and I've read a fair few of them. More often than not, they simply bore me. :/

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Agreed; I read all of his stuff in my less-descerning days, until a frightful bout of boredom which struck while reading a hard-cover copy of It in bed caused me to suffer a severe paper-cut across the bridge of my nose.

I last read From a Buick Eight, only to re-confirm my prior conclusion.

By now Im at the part where they get to 'Boulder' and people is gathering by
the hundreds, I left it on the part they agree to send three spys to
the Dark Man.

I believe 'Cheese' about the movie being bad,
and like 'Skweeky1', I also fear that watching the movie will afect my experience
reading the book.
But still, Im very tempted to watch.
In any case I already found it, and am currently trying to
make it get more seeders.

If I decide to go ahead,
it definitively will be after finishing the book.