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 Message 1595 
 lizardgirl to rec.arts.sf.tv.babylon5.moderated 
 Re: Post-apocalyptic fiction 
 20 Feb 11 19:05:48 
 
On Feb 16, 12:44 pm, Elko T  wrote:
> 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.
>
> --
> No, no, you can't e-mail me with the nono.
fire starter, that's one i know for sure i've read.  and now that
you've mentioned so many of his titles it occurs to me i like SK just
fine.  seems i just stopped reading his stuff and started 'watching'
it instead.  don't think i'd be able to go back for a literary redo
having seen the movies.
lg
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