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.
>
What about "The Langoliers"?
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