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SPA_KING · 6th October 2005, 08:43 PM

Well hello fellow n00b, and it's SPA_KING not Spanking. Oh well brush that off.

The Stand was in itself a plausible current day scenario with WMDs and everything else like that. However, it started to follow a Tom Clancy type scenario, by that I mean, the first 1/2 or 1/4 of the book was introducing characters. Jesus Christ, I think I had a flowchart to keep track of them all.

Then it took a meandering path into a wishy-washy good vs. evil, jewish like Exodus through the country, picking people up along the way. I never really grasped the deal about Las Vegas being the headquarters of the bad folk.

But I would say it was a typical rambling lost story track that is quite similair to all of Steven Kings works. I like to call his type of writing "Chewing Gum for the brain".

But I can say I have read pretty much all of his stuff since I am a mad reader.

What did you think was so great about it? It's been quite a few years since I read it so I might be a little rusty.

6th October 2005, 08:43 PM	#20 (permalink)
SPA_KING Banned Join Date: Oct 2005 Posts: 10	Re: Stephen King's DarkTower series Well hello fellow n00b, and it's SPA_KING not Spanking. Oh well brush that off. The Stand was in itself a plausible current day scenario with WMDs and everything else like that. However, it started to follow a Tom Clancy type scenario, by that I mean, the first 1/2 or 1/4 of the book was introducing characters. Jesus Christ, I think I had a flowchart to keep track of them all. Then it took a meandering path into a wishy-washy good vs. evil, jewish like Exodus through the country, picking people up along the way. I never really grasped the deal about Las Vegas being the headquarters of the bad folk. But I would say it was a typical rambling lost story track that is quite similair to all of Steven Kings works. I like to call his type of writing "Chewing Gum for the brain". But I can say I have read pretty much all of his stuff since I am a mad reader. What did you think was so great about it? It's been quite a few years since I read it so I might be a little rusty.