The Stand

>Look at how they massacred my boy

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when will this nigger fucking bite the dust already

>no the kid ejaculating on trashcan man at gunpoint

whats the point

*twang twang tata twaaaang*

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Based and original TV The Stand'd

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Truly apocalyptic

>book is over 400 pages

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>Stephen King book over 400 pages
>no teenage deflowering orgy

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M O O N

>Stephen King book over 400 pages
>no teenage deflowering orgy
>no kid getting teased by a ghost thot
>no kid getting jerked off by his teacher in front of the class in a wet dream

IT WASN'T SUPPOSED TO BE A DOCUMENTARY PEOPLE!

THAT SPELLS KANSAS

oh, that feeling of the inconvenience of the world ending

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>Stephen King book over 400 pages
>no teenage deflowering orgy
>no kid getting teased by a ghost thot
>no kid getting jerked off by his teacher in front of the class in a wet dream
>no gun barrel abortion
>no trans ghost impregnation

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Only Xers and early Millennials who watched this live remember the disappointment.
Two nights of apocalypse dystopia kino leading up to Jumpin' Jack Flash as..."god"? "satan"? I never understood King.

Is the book good? 900 pages or whatever it is seems like a big time since and since it's King i fear a low return on my time

Woah what the fuck are they remaking this?
Seems like the consensus on the first mini series is that it was pretty bad, nobody likes it. Everyone hates SK and CBS hates genre crap, why this? Why them? Just, Why?

It's one of the few King books he actually ended something resembling "well". Normally his endings are utter garbage if you're lucky.

>Seems like the consensus on the first mini series is that it was pretty bad, nobody likes it.
You are very wrong. It's well remembered and liked.

>bumpty BUMP
>MY LIFE FOR YOU!
>my life for you..

First third is great, then he drops the ball

He always drops it, but there's "Stand" level dropping it, and there's "Dark Tower 7" level dropping it.

This book fucking sucked, and without ever knowing Stephen King or hearing him speak, I can tell he's a liberal just from reading it.The "heroes" have zero agency in the story.

True. I wonder if his editor ever say "This is fucking retarded Steven"

I feel like King stuff gets blown out of proportion because everyone either really loudly really likes it or really loudly really hates it.
I never read the book but I liked the first 3 episodes of the mini series, and I usually don't care for King's pseud surrealism. It seemed toned down here, like it was mostly about dealing with the aftermath and not the "maybe supernatural idk it's up to the reader lol" cause of everything. The last episode went off the rails but that first episode is comfy.

>The last episode went off the rails but that first episode is comfy.
I agree the ending was "meh", I've come to accept it. When it first came out I despised the ending, so for me at least, it's aged like wine.

>let's gather with the bad guys
>so you can die with them
wtf?

>Navel of Gan, man

>Sigh, when can I have it

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And I can't imagine how horrible the new The Stand TV series is. Morbidly curious here.

>watching new tv ever

>kid getting jerked off by his teacher in front of the class in a wet dream
Rage? dont remember this one

I think it's really down to people who can deal with the endings being shit, and people who feel like the shit ending ruins everything preceding it.
He's definitely got a 'mystery box' problem like Abrams, he sets them up great but rarely has anything satisfactory in them.
The shit of his I enjoyed the most was always the short story shit he never even tried to explain, like the human finger of infinite length in the guy's faucet.

I'm pretty sure it was 'Needful Things'. I remember that scene better than the rest of the book.

I wonder if Hollywood will ever have the balls to adapt Rage or give us a proper adaption of The Running Man.

I miss being young and having a strong enough desire to read novels that didn't amount to velleity. Video games and work are 2good.

Any chance of adapting Rage went out the window with Columbine.

So we can all agree that Harold did nothing wrong.

how so

Harold was irredeemably cucked by Mary "Totally not Steven King's self-insert" Stu.

>Fran introduced as stronk young liberal who don't need no man
>Society collapses
>Instantly jump on Chad's dick
Old King was a riot.

Re reading this right now and yeah that's right.

M O O N
THAT SPELLS BASED

First episode is apocalypse kino

Worth a reread? I haven't read any King shit in years & not that one specifically since I was a teenager.

>a proper adaption of The Running Man.
I'm gonna take a wild guess and say the movie is better than kings book

Nobody has any agency. The entire book is a bunch of stupid shit that happens for no reason "just because".

It ends with 9/11 essentially
he flies a fucking plane into the TV network headquarters

>superflu decimates USA
>government orders to spread the virus all over the world so the murricans will not die alone
Believable.

But the movie was more entertaining for sure. The book was grittier. Much in the same vein as the Long Walk, which I always hoped would get adapted.

>Long Walk, which I always hoped would get adapted
They'd probably turn it into a discount Hunger Games.

>Old Stephen King
>Can't trust the Government man, those deep state alphabet soup organizations are always up to no good. Fucking Big Media and Big Oil are trying to distract you from the fact they're happily poisoning you to death for an easy buck.
>Nu Stephen King
>The government is there to protect us, vote Clinton!

I'm half convinced the real SK died when that Van hit him. Or maybe he just needs to get back on the Cough Syrup and Cocaine.

Probably, now.

>I can tell he's a liberal just from reading it
Kek. You should try Mr.Mercedes where a literal boomer, a quirky feminist and a Harvard-going young black man must team up to thwart a dangerous white incel.

Well, it seemed like Randall Flagg at least had a plan to bring back civilization and was enjoying himself. That is before a literal Deus Ex Machina makes the plot go away. A lot of people are saying the the first and second acts are better, but I had to put the book down and take a break for a looong time everytime there was a gunfight.

I always thought it could work well as a TV Series. Really flesh out the Walkers with lots of side-content, flashbacks and the like. Get audiences really invested for when the guns start going off. Lot of room for some ironic meta social-commentary with audiences literally tuning in to watch teens walk to death.

>maybe he just needs to get back on the Cough Syrup and Cocaine
^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^
That's the real culprit & it's clear in the Tower series. He started really rehabbing around Wizard & Glass & the whole fucking thing fell straight off a cliff.
Might've always fucked up the end of that one anyway, who knows.

>Long Walk
Man, I forgot all about that book. I remember reading both this and Rage back in 4th grade, thought it was weird how the school library had a book about kid snapping and bringing a gun to school.

Personally I find the characters boring but the overall story about America falling apart as the disease advances is always fascinating. Any other good Collapse-Of-Society kino out there?

The fucking delay between the cliffhanger ending of Waste Lands and Wizard is telling enough that he knew by book 3 that he'd bit off WAY MORE than he could chew. Just like GoT or that other bearded faggot who won't finish the Kingkiller books.

Let me guess, the boomer character is his self-insert who gives the rest of the party members wisdom turds?

Rage is a weird read, especially the part where the protag turns the entire class against the local Chad and they nearly lynch him.

I don't really remember, the books had no lasting appeal. It's actually a trilogy and the second book, Finders Keepers, is a MASSIVE middle finger to his superfans, basically calling them deranged, obsessive psychopaths who deserve to burn alive.

King gets even less excuse really because the truly GREAT Tower books were full of asspulls already, so he didn't even have the standard of "making sense" that Martin has. If he'd snorted a fucking 8ball & just make Roland vs the Crimson King the epitome of an 80's Christian metal album cover it could've been gold.

I don't find it believable at all. It's only a couple of weeks but we start seeing Mad Max shenanigans immediately, and it all feel so unearned. Tom Holland is okay, but fuck Fran, she should have died.

That chapter was boring trash until the wolves anyway

But there's And lots of anal sex

Goddammit I misremembered his name.

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Personally I hated it when plot points just started to be told to the group via bullshit dreams or outlandish intuition.

>Oh look a fucking stick good thing I just know that I need to whittle a key out of this

It's my favorite king book

I don't believe that happy crappy one bit you fuckin puss bag

This guy will play Larry Underwood, whom Amber Heard's character will desperately want to fuck rather than being bred by Alexander Skarsgard who plays Randall Flagg.

Just your same old BMWF propaganda

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And if you want something really hilarious try Sleeping Beauties.