Posted on 08/23/2011 12:07:39 PM PDT by ZGuy
Stephen King is offering an antidote to what he sees as the biases of right-wing radio talk shows by hiring a former Green Party vice presidential candidate to co-host a morning talk show on two stations he owns.
In a rare public appearance, the horror writer held a news conference Tuesday in Bangor, Maine, at the headquarters of his three-station Zone Radio network.
"The Pulse Morning Show" will be co-hosted by 50-year-old Pat LaMarche and 43-year-old Don Cookson, a former television reporter. LaMarche ran for vice president as a member of the Green Party in 2004.
During the news conference King said, "We're a little to the left, but we're right."
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The hand of God was in the plot in the end I believe. But King LOVES to bash Christians.
From Wikipedia on the plot synopsis of 2009’s “Under The Dome.”
Shortly before noon on October 21 of an unspecified year after 2012 (evidenced by mention of a faded bumper sticker for Barack Obama’s successful 2012 re-election campaign
Now that scares the sh*t out of me right there!
It’s been a while since I saw the movie, so I’m not arguing with you; I’m not personally well informed enough to argue. I am curious, though. Does the hand of God do anything transcendent? I.e.: is there a specific, supernatural event brought about by God in response to the prayers of His people?
So God detonates a nuke? That must be King’s idea of God’s kind of power, I guess.
I hate it when writers write “o’” for “of”. Really clunky attempt at ‘rural’ speech.
You have to read the book to understand why it fit. It was really about how doing evil often comes back to bite you.
But something tells me you have made up your mind already and I am wasting my time.
But I still say that ‘The Stand’ has a postive Christian message to it and that alone makes me wonder how/why he wrote it. By the way it is the ONLY King book I have ever read and I have read it multiple times.
Oh, and Steve..? How about those Rangers last night?
gosh, I just don’t know, but that could be it, at least a worsening.
I’ve got a bunch of his books, haven’t read them all.
I found them in a box somebody set out for the trash....
Not arguing here. Besides the hand of God showing up, I think you’re right there is no big significance besides the hand of God showing up, although I believe that Stu quotes scripture at the end. But looking back on it, although I loved The Stand when I was younger, now I can’t stand it because it seems implausible and it just doesn’t read as well as other great works of post-apocalyptic-fiction, such as Max Brooks World War Z.
Well don’t waste your time on me, then. It was a sincere, honest question. If the example you give doesn’t look like the kind of Providence I have personally witnessed, and which I read about in the Bible, I am a waste of your time?
Okay; whatever.
All I can tell you is that the part of the movie I saw [most of it, but it must not have been the entire thing because I don’t remember God playing with nukes] looked just like a godless world inhabited by very sincere, God-fearing Christians. That is my impression. I asked you to offset it, since you’re more familiar with the story than I am. People talking about God is exactly what I saw/remember. God triggering nukes is not the kind of Providence I’m familiar with. We can leave it at that.
Mother Abagail was a 108 year old black woman from a farming family in Nebraska. I reckon she would have not spoken anything like William F. Buckley Jr.
I guess it comes down to sincereity being in the eye of the beholder.
I probably shouldn’t attempt to discuss a book I haven’t read. What happened was this. I watched most of The Stand, and later I ran into a Christian who is a very big fan of King. I related my impression—i.e.: that King was writing about very committed, devoted believers in what amounted to a world without God, and the friend told me I nailed it. So there is at least one King fan who is very familiar with The Stand who buys my impression of it. On this thread, it flew like a lead dirigible. Oh well; win some, lose some.
I appreciate your commentary on it, though, since you are one of the more familiar people with the story. Thanks for offering a helpful perspective.
Oh, so now you are judging my heart? How very omniscient of you.
You are most welcome. Have a nice day.
I wonder if he’s even writing the books being published under his name now? I have read virtually every novel he wrote from Carrie to From a Buick 8, Bag of Bones...about the year 2000-2002. While he’s no Tolstoy, his works show a steady improvement in professionalism and polish : Even Salem’s Lot and The Shining are incomparably better written than Carrie. And then I got The Cell...I really don’t believe for a second that SK wrote that book . It read almost like a parody of SK’s writing style, written by a person with marginal at best writing ability, trying to imitate the tropes and idiom’s of SK’s work. And getting those tropes wrong : What was with the ALL CAPS listing for brand names? And his male protagonists ...They have never been stupid or neanderthal/macho, but they also haven’t burst into tears constantly , sometimes more than once in the same chapter. And suddenly SK is writing about a 20something artist, when his protaganists have been aging along with him, sometimes being older than is SK himself? And SK’s done gay characters before, but this one (a male secondary named Tom IIRC) seemed oddly tacked on, like his gayness was part of a checklist system of writing a Guaranteed Blockbuster. I checked out the reviews at various sites, and I was gratified to see that others had had the exact same thought : As one reviewer put it, “I don’t know who wrote this book, but it wasn’t King, and whoever wrote it sucks!” There have been rumors that Tabitha King has written some of SK’s works (Rose Madder and Gerald’s Game , maybe a few more ) and the sheer number and size of the books ( sometimes three huge ones in one year) have seemed suspicious to some, but The Cell is the first work of SK that I’ve read which didn’t seem to be written by the same person (whoever s/he is...) who wrote The Stand , The Shining, The Dead Zone, or even the last (and least) novels in the Gunslinger series.
Than you want The Stephen King Miniseries
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