Originally Posted By: Irishman12


I know this is a little off topic but has anybody read or seen the movie THE STAND. I saw bits and pieces of it, can't really find it through my library (although if I wanted to try hard enough I could find it online). After reading IT I'll have to determine if I can stomach another 1100+ book.

Also, I remember enjoying the movie THE STORM OF THE CENTURY. Again, anybody read the book?


I read The Stand and saw the movie. As usual I thought the book was better. King writes so densely and has so much going on that's it's difficult for a film to capture that, although in my opinion Dreamcatcher and The Mist came closest.

Storm of the Century was never a book.

"When the snows fall and the white winds blow, the lone wolf dies but the pack survives."
Winter is Coming

Now this is the Law of the Jungle—as old and as true as the sky; And the wolf that shall keep it may prosper, but the wolf that shall break it must die.
As the creeper that girdles the tree-trunk, the Law runneth forward and back; For the strength of the Pack is the Wolf, and the strength of the Wolf is the Pack.