Comments on Padfoot and Prongs: The Stand by Stephen King, Padfoot's Lament

Yeah the tv series was horrible. I didn't know...

2011-02-03T16:46:09.582-05:00

Yeah the tv series was horrible. I didn't know they were making a movie of The Stand, but I am aware of the tv series/big screen makings of The Dark Tower series. They are supposed to coincide with each other. They are being directed by Ron Howard. Check it out here....http://www.darktowermovies.com/

That was definitely something I liked about the bo...

2011-02-01T18:00:17.112-05:00

That was definitely something I liked about the book.

Well as always Babycakes, you have excellent taste in authors :)

P.S.!!! I just heard that they are making a movie of The Stand!! So crazy! I wonder if it will be any good?

I recently watched the made for tv miniseries and hated it haha

All of Kings epic books,(and I say epic because of...

2011-02-01T17:49:47.550-05:00

All of Kings epic books,(and I say epic because of the length of them),have outstanding character development. It's one of the things I love most about them. If you haven't guessed, I'm a huge SK nerd;)He's my favorite author, along with Bradbury.

One thing I did really enjoy was the character dev...

2011-01-31T19:47:11.547-05:00

One thing I did really enjoy was the character development. Although it seemed pretty in-depth, I thought it was well done.

@Becky,The Passage does have whisperings of The St...

2011-01-31T17:51:08.501-05:00

@Becky,The Passage does have whisperings of The Stand on a some level. For me The Stand is the best King book I've read thus far. I think you either love it, or you don't. I love it!

I am not a Stephen King fan, so when a student sho...

2011-01-30T16:36:06.963-05:00

I am not a Stephen King fan, so when a student shoved this book at me and said read, I had serious reservations. Having said that though, I liked it--up until the ending. I still think it was bizarre and freaky in a unique kind of way. I'm not a big reader of King's work though, nor other books like this, so I can't really speak to what he did or didn't do. I will say that it's awfully similar to The Passage by Justin Cronin, that came out last year.

@Jessica I guess I would have liked the dreams mo...

2011-01-30T12:21:11.611-05:00

@Jessica I guess I would have liked the dreams more if they had led to a better ending.

Yea Prongs has warned me about King Endings...So I wasn't TOO surprised.

But I just had such high hopes!

@Mystic I did like the idea that you really were not safe anywhere you went, since they were haunted in their dreams.

But they just didn't seem to fit with the rest of the story, I felt like I read two different books.

That's true, I'm just pretty surprised I didn't like it, seemed right up my alley!

Thanks :D

The dreams are a psychological element. As they t...

2011-01-30T11:53:49.038-05:00

The dreams are a psychological element. As they travel, they are not always within physical proximity of "evil"; however it can enter their dreams adding to the "you can't hide from your destiny" message. King uses it as a method of communication to unify the different groups.
Goodness Padfoot, I do not begrudge you your opinion. Reading is a highly personal and unique experience. I respect your opinion!
Cheers!

I really enoyed it overall and I agree that the fi...

2011-01-30T04:09:27.788-05:00

I really enoyed it overall and I agree that the first 300 pages were the best, I thought the whole set up was very well done.

I thought the dreams bit were fine and made it more of a 'horror' book, esp the bits with the wolves and other animals. The bit that bored me in this section were when the characters spent forever just wandering around New England.

The ending - I agree but then Mr King does lame endings sometimes so I think I was prepared.