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from: Amy Guskin
date: 2011-02-16 21:53:30
subject: Re: Post-apocalyptic fiction

>> On Wed, 16 Feb 2011 14:44:15 -0500, Elko T wrote
(in article ):

> lizardgirl wrote:
>> On Feb 14, 1:10 pm, Joseph DeMartino  wrote:
>>> On Feb 12, 3:09 pm, lizardgirl  wrote:
>>> 
>>>> the recent events in haiti i think bare witness to just how horrific
>>>> and messy a mass die off is.  jumping the story to 'every
body's dead
>>>> except we three' feels like a bit of a cheat that white
washes all the
>>>> blood and gusts
>>> Stephen King's "The Stand" is actually very good on
the messy mass die-
>>> off stuff, especially Stu Redman's harrowing journey through a Lincoln
>>> tunnel filled with wrecked vehicles and rotting corpses.  Yuck!
>>> 
>> 
>> not a bid stephen king fan.  i want to say i read something of his a
>> long, long time ago but i could be wrong.
>> i'll at least give the title a look see on amazon.  i'm bookless at
>> the moment.
> 
>    St. King is variable, at least to my tastes. Of the ones I've read, I 
> liked 
> "Firestarter", "It", "The Stand" (the
complete edition), "Insomnia" and "Rose 

> Madder". I didn't like Carrie, Salem's Lot, The Shining, Cujo and Pet 
> Sematary. 
> I couldn't bring myself to read The Dark Tower series for some reason.
>    And, of course, the annoying presence of the supernatural in almost all of 

> his works (but it comes with the package, so has to lived with). Maybe I 
> liked 
> the ones I did, because its presence in them was less annoying. In any event, 

> "The Stand" and "Insomnia" are powerful, even epic
books. <<

Let's not forget his newer stuff.  I think he's going through something of a 
renaissance, in fact.  I'm thinking "The Cell," "Duma
Key," and "Under the 
Dome" (which I really LOVED, and which is rumored to be in development by HBO 
as a miniseries).

Amy
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